Zagava Explained

Founded:2013
Founder:Jonas J. Ploeger
Country:Germany
Headquarters:Düsseldorf, Germany
Publications:Books
Genre:Weird fiction, strange tales and novels, supernatural and horror fiction

Zagava is a publishing imprint based in Düsseldorf, Germany, focusing on works in the English language within the genres of weird fiction, supernatural, and horror literature, often produced in limited editions. Most of Zagava's books are issued in numbered hardbound versions and frequently in additional special limited lettered sub-editions with special bindings or additional extras. The books are as much about their contents as about the art of fine book-production.[1] Jonas Ploeger is the proprietor of this press. The name of Zagava comes from a story by Edward Gorey, The Osbick Bird.

Brief history

The press began in 2013 with its first publication, Virtue in Danger by Reggie Oliver, marking the start of its publishing journey as a collaborative venture.

Jonas Ploeger’s involvement in the book trade began in 2002 with the launch of an antiquarian online bookstore - Antiquariat Bücherwelten. However, his primary profession at the time, and currently, was as camera operator and photographer.[2]

Publishing philosophy of Zagava

Zagava emphasizes high-quality book production, blending literary content with craftsmanship and exploring themes such as the weird, supernatural, the decadent, and the mystical. Zagava aims to offer readers unique, thought-provoking experiences and surprise them with its creativity.[3]

Zagava editions

Zagava offers its works in various formats, including limited-edition hardcovers and chapbooks, featuring artisanal materials and bindings. Paperbacks also make part of Zagava's publishing.

Lettered edition
Lettered editions are special lettered sub-editions that come along with special bindings or additional extras. These vary on a wide range and often feature creative cover styles, such as hardcover out of copper. Zagava's lettered editions usually are issued with 24 examplars.

Numbered edition
Zagava's numbered editions usually come as an edition of 199 copies where as in the past it may have varied up to 222 copies.

Paperback edition
Paperback editions by Zagava are often unlimited and in A4 size. Furthermore, the paperback are published on high-quality paper with illustrated boards.

Chapbook edition
Infra-Noir
In 2018, a new type of edition series, named "Infra-Noir" was introduced. The Infra-Noirs are printed on finest Amalfi hand-made cotton rag paper with deckled edges and are hand-sewn.[4]

An overview of all published Infra-Noirs[5]
  1. 0 - Craft - D.P. Watt
  1. 16 - Corruption of Heliotrope - Louis Marvick
  1. 32 - Goat Songs - Mark Valentine
  1. 48 - Adrift on Memory Bliss - Arturo Calderon Huapaya
  1. 33 - The Fenland House - Derek Bainbridge
  1. 49 - A Spectral People - Alcebíades Diniz
  1. 2 - The Idyll is over - Jonathan Wood
  1. 18 - Under Different Stars - Avalon Brantley
  1. 34 - Our World, Like a Charnel House - Jason Rolfe
  1. 50 - Canon for Three September Voices - Martin Ruf
  1. 3 - Codex of Light - Karim Ghahwagi
  1. 19 - A Hive of Pain - D.P. Watt
  1. 35 - Again, The Granite - Charles Schneider
  1. 51 - Stella C - B. Catling
  1. 20 - The Purple Thread - Martin Ruf
  1. 36 - Reunion - Peter Bell
  1. 52 - Blackthorn Cottage - Colin Insole
  1. 5 - Ancestor Water - Rebecca Lloyd
  1. 21 - The End of Death - Part 1 - Mark Samuels
  1. 37 - W - John Howard
  1. 53 - House of Silence: An Exposition - Avalon Brantley
  1. 6 - Stained Medium - Mark Valentine
  1. 22 - The End of Death - Part 2 - Mark Samuels
  1. 38 - Death and the Bachelor - R. Ostermeier
  1. 54 - The Emissaries - John Howard
  1. 7 - The Purblind Bards - Timothy J. Jarvis
  1. 23 - The Story of Anja Sigmundsdóttir - Part 1 - Eric Stener Carlson
  1. 39 - The Funeral of Archimimus - O. Jamie Walsh
  1. 55 - The Two Keisukes - Brian Howell
  1. 24 - The Story of Anja Sigmundsdóttir - Part 2 - Eric Stener Carlson
  1. 40 - An Ideal Guest - Gaurav Monga
  1. 25 - The Animals That I Have Scarcely Known - Stephen J. Clark
  1. 41 - CAW: Colossal Abandoned World - James Champagne
  1. 26 - The Power That Overshadows - Alex Older
  1. 42 - Towards Nature - Douglas Thompson
  1. 27 - Antediluvian: A Tale of Winter - Thomas Phillips
  1. 43 - A Vision of the architecture of the Obscure - Damian Murphy
  1. 12 - The Book of Unwona - Colin Insole
  1. 28 - Whom the Gods Destroy - Douglas Thompson
  1. 44 - A Calendar of cherries - Colin Insole
  1. 13 - New Adelphi - John Howard
  1. 29 - The Invisible Collection - Louis Marvick, Stefan Zweig
  1. 45 - Project Excitement - Golnoosh Nour
  1. 14 - The Antiquarian's Story - Thomas Strømsholt
  1. 30 Kali Yuga: This Dark and Present Age - Avalon Brantley
  1. 46 - Pictures of Yukio - Brian Howell
  1. 31 - The Curator of Souls - Peter Bell
  1. 47 - Officer of the Watch - Peter Bell

Postcards
Many illustrations in Zagava's books were issued as sets of postcards as well.

Authors

Zagava has published works of a total number of 114 authors and artists as of 2024. The following shows an overview in alphabetical order:[6] [7]

Bibliography


External links

Unboxing "The Egotist" by Philip Fracassi

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Horror as the world in crisis we live in now: An interview with Timothy J. Jarvis. Muzzlelandpress.com. 11 November 2016.
  2. Web site: About Zagava: History . 18 November 2024.
  3. Web site: About Zagava: Mission . 18 November 2024.
  4. Web site: Infra-Noir. Bibliophagus.weebly.com. 14 March 2019.
  5. Web site: Overview of all published Infra-Noirs. 19 November 2024.
  6. Web site: Authors published by Zagava. 19 November 2024.
  7. Web site: Authors of Infra Noirs published by Zagava.
  8. Web site: The Stream and the Torrent. Bibliophagus.weebly.com. 11 November 2016.
  9. Web site: A Distillate of Heresy. Goodreads.com. 11 November 2016.
  10. Web site: Zagava Books: Very far from Big Publishing. Teleread.com. 24 November 2013 . 11 November 2016.
  11. Web site: WRAITHS and ERITH. Dflewisreviews.wordpress.com. 26 November 2015 . 11 November 2016.
  12. Web site: A review of Brendan Connell's Cannibals of West Papua. Risingshadow.net. 11 November 2016.
  13. Web site: "Booklore" is now published by Zagava. Carlabrahamsson.com. 11 November 2016.
  14. Web site: The Hauntings at Tankerton Park. Goodreads.com. 16 November 2016.
  15. Web site: Avalon Brantley and Zagava offer a reading experience like few others with "The House of Silence". Lovecraftzine.com. 2 March 2018 . 14 March 2019.
  16. Web site: Stories that are strange, fantastical - and utterly engrossing. Washingtonpost.com. 14 March 2019.
  17. Web site: An unseasonable bloom. Johncoulthart.com. 3 November 2017 . 14 March 2019.
  18. Web site: Albertine's Wooers. Panreview.blogspot.com. 4 November 2017 . 14 March 2019.
  19. Web site: The Curious Case of Jan Torrentius. Dflewisreviews.wordpress.com. 18 September 2017 . 14 March 2019.
  20. Web site: The Prozess Manifestations - Review. Suptales.blogspot.com. 10 April 2018 . 14 March 2019.
  21. Web site: The Feathered Bough. Dflewisreviews.wordpress.com. 8 June 2018 . 14 March 2019.
  22. Web site: An interview with Rebecca Lloyd. Darklanebooks.blogspot.com. 26 February 2019 . 14 March 2019.
  23. Web site: The Suicide Machine - Douglas Thompson . douglasthompson.wordpress.com. 20 November 2024. 11 November 2018.
  24. Web site: N A Jackson . The Suicide Machine - Douglas Thompson . kissthewithc.co.uk . 20 November 2024.
  25. Web site: The Friendly Examiner - Episode 1 . librarything.com . 20 November 2024.
  26. Web site: Bandit Poet - Jeremy Reed. poeticjusticemagazine.com. 21 April 2021. 20 November 2024.
  27. Web site: The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things. Wyrdbritain.blogspot.com. 23 May 2018 . 14 March 2019.
  28. Web site: The Delicate Shoreline Beckons Us - Jonathan Wood . wormwoodiana.blogspot.com. 16 February 2019. 20 November 2024.
  29. Web site: The Friendly Examiner - Episode 1 . librarything.com. 20 November 2024.
  30. Web site: Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald. Wiederentdeckung einer Jugendstil-Künstlerin. Broehan-museum.de. 14 March 2019.
  31. Web site: Author Archives: James J. Conway. Strangeflowers.wordpress.com. 14 March 2019.
  32. Web site: A Real Christmas Chiller for Fright no. 8: The Meerschaum Pipe by L.A.Lewis. . 20 November 2024. 19 December 2023.
  33. Web site: Ben Rapaport. The Meerschaum Pipe - L.A. Lewis. pipedia.org. June 2022. 20 November 2024.
  34. Web site: Aornos - Avalon Brantley - Black Magazin (in German) . blackmagazin.com. 20 November 2024.
  35. Web site: An Interview with Stephen J. Clark . swanriverpress.wordpress.com . 20 November 2024 . 21 June 2015.
  36. Web site: Shrike, by Quentin S. Crisp – reviewed . theakersquarterly.blogspot.com . 20 November 2024 . 4 February 2009.
  37. Web site: The Face of Twilight by Mark Samuels . reddit.com . 14 August 2019 . 20 November 2024.
  38. Web site: The Face of Twilight - Review . marzaat.com . 20 November 2024 . 27 July 2022.
  39. Web site: Fifteen Questions Literature Interview with Thomas Phillips . 15questions.net . 20 November 2024.
  40. Web site: Jeremy Reed: Dungeness Blues, The Jarman Suite . poeticjusticemagazine.com . 20 November 2024 . 26 January 2022.
  41. Web site: Twenty Twenty One . douglasthompson.wordpress.com . 20 November 2024 . 1 January 2021.
  42. Web site: Witch-Cult Abbey . marzaat.com . 20 November 2024 . 6 October 2022.
  43. Web site: Witch-Cult Abbey, by Mark Samuels . oddlyweirdfiction.com . 20 November 2024 . 28 October 2020.
  44. Web site: Zagava - Archetypes by Florence Sunnen . collectiblebookvault.com . 20 November 2024 . 22 May 2022.
  45. Web site: Laura Mauro . Moriah by Daniel Mills . archive.gnofhorror.com . 20 November 2024 . 8 May 2017.
  46. Web site: Quentin S. Crisp Interview . kulchurkat.wordpress.com . 20 November 2024 . 2 May 2023.
  47. Web site: Book review: The Wanderer . captainfez.com/ . 20 November 2024 . 13 March 2021.
  48. Web site: Review: Written in Darkness by Mark Samuels . arkhamdigest.com . 20 November 2024 . 19 December 2014.
  49. Web site: Heaven's Hill . wyrdbritain.blogspot.com . 20 November 2024 . 19 October 2021.
  50. Web site: Singing and Sighing – Collected Stories Vol. 1 . librarything.com . 20 November 2024.
  51. Web site: Book Review: A Song for Barnaby Jones by Anna Taborska, illustrated by Reggie Oliver . monsterlibrarian.com/ . 20 November 2024.
  52. Web site: Review: Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes by Mark Samuels . arkhamdigest.com . 20 November 2024 . 9 May 2013.
  53. Web site: Shadows of London - Jonathan Wood . wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/ . 20 November 2024 . 1 October 2021.
  54. Web site: Neo-Decadence Evangelion Review . kulchurkat.wordpress.com . 20 November 2024 . 30 May 2023.
  55. Web site: A Pilgrim Stranger . marzaat.com . 20 November 2024 . 31 January 2017.
  56. Web site: Waiting For Buses . douglasthompson.wordpress.com . 20 November 2024 . 11 June 2022.
  57. Web site: Scottish Writers' Centre . Launch of Lost Eden: a collaborative ‘quartet of quartets’ . cca-glasgow.com . 20 November 2024 . 21 February 2023.
  58. Web site: David Herman . Review: The Invisible Collection . thejc.com . 20 November 2024 . 6 July 2015.
  59. Web site: Don't Let Them Get You Down . 20 November 2024.
  60. Web site: Interview 13- Rebecca Lloyd . michellewendydcosta.wordpress.com . 20 November 2024 . 26 May 2017.
  61. Web site: Quentin S Crisp – Ikaho Review . kulchurkat.uk . 20 November 2024 . 4 August 2024.
  62. Web site: A Trick of the Shadow, by R. Ostermeier . oddlyweirdfiction.com . 20 November 2024 . 1 October 2021.

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