Black Dog (limited hardback) - R. Ostermeier

Black Dog by R. Ostermeier / 132-page hardback, published in 2025 by Broodcomb Press in a limited printing of 200 copies

Broodcomb Press is a UK publisher specializing in weird fiction and beyond: "Encompassing poetry, strange tales and experimental fiction, Broodcomb Press is a home for the writing that belongs here: disquieting truths about the region ("the peninsula") – tales both eerie and shocking – together with exploring the fantastic/everyday meaning of what it means to be human."

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"Ben took a few photographs. The head was a sinister delight. It was clearly a folk artefact, something with a cruel aspect to it. The lever had a hole at the end that married with a groove at the rear of the head when tightened, the kind of alignment that suggested a padlock could be slotted through. A punishment, he thought then, a tool to render the wearer blind, helpless. He could picture it then: a village square on some significant day – Equinoctial bollocks, Max had said – and a poor unfortunate blind in the centre of a jeering mob."

R. Ostermeier's new novella returns to the peninsular coastal landscape to tell a tale of capture, once again taking us deep into a sinister and unsettling world of human need, human desperation.

Never to be reprinted as a stand-alone book, Black Dog is strictly limited to two hundred copies.