"They must be mad if they think I wrote this trash." - Voltaire on Candide
Welcome to Trashface. Specialising in anachronistic science fiction, crime fiction, horror fiction, bad science and rubbishy "meditations", Trashface publishes books which otherwise languish in bargain basements and on Abe Books in secondhand Corgi editions, which have their charms, but which reward their authors not at all. Find out more...
Trashface publications & news
08Aug
A reminder that we've re-opened our original caption competition. This time we expect some magic you humans, so try harder.
We're offering €300 (US$463) for the best caption for our title image, for use on a brochure.
Enter the competition now and the winner will be announced on 14th October 2008 - John's Birthday.
Open to anyone, from any country where our money is good.
06July
Added updated biography of Carl Einstein and a brief essay on German Expressionism.
02June
Trashface has recently appointed a Chief Bookperson, Miss Elske Rahill. Elske will be responsible
for everything apart from counting the money.
01jun
Trashface is planning three new titles by LP Davies for release in June...watch this space.
28may
We've re-opened our original caption competition. This time we expect some magic you humans, so try harder.
We're offering €300 (US$463) for the best caption for our title image, for use on a brochure.
Enter the competition now and the winner will be announced on 14th October 2008 - John's Birthday.
Open to anyone, from any country where our money is good.
14mar
We're offering €275 (US$390) for the best caption for our title image, for use on a brochure. Enter the competition now and
the winner will be announced on 26th April 2008. Open to anyone, from any country where our money is good.
02mar
R. L. Dione's 1969 UFO Masterwork back in print after almost 40 years of silence. Trashface has prepared a beautiful new edition of this enduring rationalist masterpiece. With an introduction by Quincy Schmerz this edition brings the wonder of a super technological God to a modern audience used to "dealing in the currency of facts"...
Thomas Page's
The Hephaestus Plague in its first new edition since 1974. First published by G.P. Putnam's of New York, this classic bio-terror novel introduces the wonderfully misanthropic Professor Parmiter, a man whose determination to fulfill the biological destiny of his beloved insects threatens the whole of humankind...
LP Davies 1972 Science Fiction thriller revisits Davies' intense obsession with lost identity, deception and small english country villages. Enter a world of chain smoking and gentle chauvinism where the recent past becomes the distant future...
The first single volume english language translation of this seminal German expressionist novel, with an introduction by Patrick Healy.
01mar
Trashface is a specialist publisher focusing on reviving neglected classics across a range of genres both fiction and non-fiction. To understand the genesis of Trashface and what we are trying to achieve click here.
