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Another green world by Henry Wessells, 2025

Another green world by Henry Wessells
a first glimpse in the wild : Another green world (2025)

— Henry Wessells. Another green world. Zagava, 2025. Paperback issue. Pp. 180, [2, blank], [2, imprint]. Sage green wrappers printed in black, lower wrapper with blurbs by Guy Davenport, William Gibson, and Joanne McNeil.
On a very hot evening in late June, your correspondent went to Newark airport to expedite customs clearance and collect the first author copies of Another green world, newly re-issued by Zagava Books with two additional stories. It is a stylish book in a tall narrow format, set by Jan-Marco Schmitz in Minion pro with titles in Roadway.
The paperback is a pleasure to hold and read. The hardcover issue is in production, and a formal  announcement of publication is expected. Zagava make nice books. Perhaps you will agree.

The table of contents is as follows (with note of the story‘s first publication) :

  1. From This Swamp. (The Starry Wisdom. A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft. Ed. D. M. Mitchell. Creation Books, 1994)
  2. Book Becoming Power. (NYRSF, March 2000)
  3. Another Green World. (Nature, 15 June 2000)
  4. The Polynesian History of the Kerguélen Islands. (Exquisite Corpse 45 & 47, 1994)
  5. The Institute of Antarctic Archaeology & Protolinguistics. (Another green world, 2003)
  6. Appraisal at Edgewood (A Critical Fiction). (NYRSF, March 2001)
  7. Hugh O’Neill’s Goose. (Interzone, October 2001)
  8. Virtual Wisdom. (Exquisite Corpse 36, 1992)
  9. Wulkderk; or, Not in Skeat. (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 32, 2015, as “The Beast Unknown to Heraldry”)
  10. Extended Range; or, The Accession Label. (2015, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 35, 2016)
  11. Ten Bears; or, A Journey to the Weterings (A Critical Fiction). (NYRSF, October 2003)

Of the first edition, Guy Davenport wrote,
“If you don’t believe in magic, read Henry Wessells and find out how wrong you are.”

Joanne McNeil (author of Lurking and Wrong Way), writes, “Henry Wessells writes from beyond an ‘unfamiliar void’, where the natural world, dreams, language, myths, research, and rituals converge. The stories collected in Another Green World offer uncanny vitality out of the dark like dandelions sprouting from cracked New Jersey pavement. A delightful and enduring work of literary inquiry.”

Another green world by Henry Wessells

Zagava Books will be publishing Another Green World, a collection of short fiction expanded from the 2003 work with the same title and adding two previously uncollected stories. The book will be available in two states, a narrow format paperback and a numbered hardcover.  Another Green World is in production for late spring 2025 and can be pre-ordered here :

https://zagava.de/shop/another-green-world

The table of contents includes the following stories :

  1. From This Swamp (1,800 words)
  2. Book Becoming Power (2,200 words)
  3. Another Green World (800 words)
  4. The Polynesian History of the Kerguélen Islands (3,300 words)
  5. The Institute of Antarctic Archaeology & Protolinguistics (3,600 words)
  6. Appraisal at Edgewood (2,000 words)
  7. Hugh O’Neill’s Goose (3,800 words)
  8. Virtual Wisdom (900 words)
  9. Wulkderk; or, Not in Skeat (1,750 words)
  10. Extended Range; or, The Accession Label (2,000 words)
  11. Ten Bears (8,400 words)

Of the first edition, Guy Davenport wrote,
“If you don’t believe in magic, read Henry Wessells and find out how wrong you are.”

Mark Valentine writes : “Henry Wessells delights in books and mysteries and writes with a zest for the arcane and a talent for the oblique and surprising.”

Zagava produce beautiful books and I am delighted to join the ranks of their authors.