NEW ISSUE!

October 1, 2025October 1, 2025

IN THIS ISSUE:
Julien Gracq’s “The House”
Albert Cossery’s “Perpetually Barking Man”
The Belgian School of the Bizarre
Paul Nougé’s Optic Unveiled
A “Surreal Wheels” pictorial
Doug Skinner’s intrusive Reader Survey
A rare Boggle toss
Bouncing Draculas
An Oulipian crossword puzzle
And more avant-garde goodness.

FEATURING 38 LUMINARIES: Robert Archambeau; Corina Bardoff; Terry Bradford; Igor Bulatovsky; Paul Busson; Apollo Camembert; Norman Conquest; Albert Cossery; Noël Devaulx; Rachel Galvin; Jean-Luc Gameau; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Julien Gracq; Pierre Autin-Grenier; Daniel Y. Harris; Rick Henry; Esteban Isnardi; Julia Lillard; Joshua Martin; George MacLennan; Dmitri Manin; Paul Nougé; Thomas Owen; Angelo Pastormerlo; Alejandro Albarrán Polanco; Bernard Quiriny; Adam Ranđelović; Simon Read; Doug Skinner; Lono Taggers; Mark Valentine; Tim Walker; Gregory Wallace; Alyson Waters; Andrew Wenaus; Tom Whalen; Bill Wolak.

TYPO #12: The International Journal of Prototypes
edited by Norman Conquest & Paul Rosheim
Trade paperback; 157 pp., illustrated.
ISBN 979-8-9923826-9-3

Catalogue Madness

September 17, 2025November 18, 2025

Take a deep dive into Belgian Surrealism and Paul Delvaux in this special edition.

This extraordinary catalogue features full color reproductions of never-before-seen paintings, with specifications and background details on each work. It includes the original clandestine “Surrealist Map of Belgium” (with annotations), plus rare documents and archival photographs restored to their original glory.

Lono Taggers has spent years compiling this faux edition, scouring secondhand bookshops in Brussels and Paris—tracking down reclusive collectors and hostile connoisseurs—breaking into archives and bribing greedy relatives of Paul Delvaux.

Black Scat Books has spared no expense in bringing to light these exceedingly rare paintings and historic Surrealist documents.

CLICK HERE and order your copy now.

Surrealism Lives!

September 14, 2025November 18, 2025

Featuring color reproductions of never-before-seen paintings, with specifications and background details on each work. Includes an original “Surrealist Map of Belgium,” plus rare documents and archival photographs.

This catalogue is published in association with the République Surréaliste de Belgique.

11 is HEAVEN

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

IN THIS ISSUE: Alphonse Allais; Terry Bradford; Norman Conquest; Lynn Crawford; John Dee; S. C. Delaney; Luc Fierens; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Paulette Hampton; Isidore Isou; Ben D. Jaeger; Paul Kavanagh; Amy Kurman; Joel Lipman; George MacLennan; André Pieyre de Mandiargues; Marcel Mariën; Sean G. Meggeson; Thomas Owen; Angelo Pastormerlo; Agnès Potier; Bernard Quiriny; Paul Rosheim; Alberto Savinio; Doug Skinner; Corinne Taunay; Michel Vachey; and D. Harlan Wilson.

Featuring

SUBTERRANEAN ART SHARDS
“PAPA BACH”
MARCEL MARIEN’S “AUTOPORTRAIT”
LUC FIERENS COLLAGES
D. HARLAN WILSON SPECULATIVE FICTION
“ISOU: THE JAMES DEAN OF LETTRISM”
JAEGER ON “THE RITES OF ECSTASY

PLUS new translations of André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Michel Vachey, Alberto Savinio, Alphonse Allais, Bernard Quiriny, & Thomas Owen.

TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes #11
154 pp., trade paperback; $20
ISBN 979-8-9923826-8-6

Summer Reading…

May 14, 2025

Avant-garde composer & poet, Mirtha Pozzi in Paris.

Don’t miss the current issue of TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes, featuring the first English translation of a novelette by surrealist André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and previously unavailable translations from a diverse selection of neglected literary masters: Marcel Schneider, Bernard Quiriny, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Walter Serner, and others. Plus art and startling surprises.

ISOU ROCKS!

May 10, 2025May 10, 2025

The James Dean of Lettrism is back in this disruptive chapbook. The spirit of Dada lives in Doug Skinner’s first English translation of Considérations sur la mort et l’enterrement de Tristan Tzara—originally unleashed in 2012 in a limited Black Scat edition of 50 copies. Here Isou recounts his bizarre and humorous behavior at Tristan Tzara’s funeral in France.

Isidore Isou, the founder of the artistic movement Lettrism, was a great admirer of the Dadaist Tristan Tzara. So, when Tzara died in 1963, Isou disrupted the funeral to give the great provocateur a properly raucous sendoff. Isou’s lively account of the proceedings is both a polemic against traditional funerals and a warm declaration of his affection and admiration for Tzara.

PUMPING IRONY

March 31, 2025

In this issue we’re pleased to present the first English translation of a novelette by the surrealist writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues. You’ll also find previously unavailable translations from a diverse selection of neglected avant-garde literary masters like Marcel Schneider, Bernard Quiriny, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Walter Serner, and others. While these writings range from baroque to fantastic, from dada to surrealism and back, together they helped populate modern literary art.

TYPO #10: The International Journal of Prototypes
Trade paperback, 158 pp., $20
ISBN 979-8-9923826-6-2

Poèmes phonétiques; DADA; Surrealism, visual poetry; fantasy; Lettrism; experimental fiction.

IN THIS ISSUE: Chiara Ambrosio; Tim Newton Anderson; Terry Bradford; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando; Thibault Jacquot-Paratte; Mark Kanak; Amy Kurman; André Pieyre de Mandiargues; George MacLennan; Frank Nims; Giambattista Palatino; Angelo Pastormerlo; Maurice Pons; Mirtha Pozzi; Bernard Quiriny; Jason E. Rolfe; Marcel Schneider; Walter Serner; Doug Skinner; Phil Demise Smith; Lono Taggers; Corinne Taunay; Gregory Wallace.

TYPO 10 — an instant collector’s item. Available worldwide.

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TYPO #9: A Fusion of Avant-Garde Literature

January 25, 2025

Like a robot assembled in a subterranean laboratory, this issue contains prototypical pieces from around the world. Many contributors were previously seen in so-called Obscure Publications. Others have been freshly translated from rare French, Belgian, and Russian books and magazines. Some authors are well-known in avant-garde or fantasy circles. Some artists & writers are just breaking through. But all have been brought together to create this sublime issue for your pleasure.

FEATURING: Alphonse Allais; Chiara Ambrosio; Robert Archambeau; Pierre Bettencourt; Greg Boyd; Terry Bradford; H.V. Chao; Norman Conquest; Lynn Crawford; Caroline Crépiat; R J Dent; Mark Ducharme; Jean-Luc Garneau; Edward Gauvin; Vasilisk Gnedov; Kirpal Gordon; Michael Gould; André Hardellet; Jordan Jones; Amy Kurman; Joel Lipman; Emilia Loseva; Stephen-Paul Martin; George MacLennan; Henri Michaux; Claudio Parentela; Angelo Pastormerlo; Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray; Bernard Quiriny; Doug Skinner; Renée Vivien; Danny Winkler; Bill Wolak.

TYPO #9: The International Journal of Prototypes
152 pp., trade paperback; $20
ISBN 979-8-9923826-0-0

It’s a bird… !

January 10, 2025

We are thrilled to present our first book of 2025 – THE VIRTUOSO PARROT & OTHER STORIES.

Claude-Sosthène Grasset d’Orcet (1828-1900) wrote startling articles and stories about secret societies, hidden bloodlines, and his own idiosyncratic views of history. His obsession with finding puns and rebuses, in both ancient inscriptions and modern speech, influenced generations of occultists and was the inspiration for the “language of the birds” expounded by the enigmatic Fulcanelli.

This book is Grasset d’Orcet’s first appearance in English! It contains five of his odd short stories, a contemporary obituary, and detailed notes on his ideas and allusions.

At last, the virtuoso parrot speaks to English readers!

Sweet Sixteen!

July 12, 2024July 12, 2024

We are elated, delirious, tickled, thrilled, and ecstatic to announce the 16th volume in our acclaimed Alphonse Allais Collection. This first English translation of Allais’s Pour cause de fin de bail has been exquisitely prepared and introduced (with notes on the text) by master translator Doug Skinner.

This wickedly amusing collection contains fifty-three absurdist tales—packed with phantom limbs, floating brothels, tapeworms, ostrich shoes, and other remarkable things. It makes a jolly beach read, or to browse in your hammock whilst sipping a cool glass of lemonade—or better yet, a jug of absinthe.

So, if you haven’t already begun gathering your personal Allais collection—shame on you!—now is the time to start. Scroll down and you’ll find unadulterated links to each edition for convenient purchasing.

Happy Summer!