50% off Delphi Classics - gothic, horror, and supernatural authors

[Dr. Drib]

Just got this email from Delphi Classics for a whopping 50% off on selected authors.

Check your emails!

I have no affiliation, in any context, with Delphi Classics - except that they take my money and I take their ebooks.




Don

[jersysman]

I really wanted to get something from this sale. However, when I looked at all the authors that I wanted to get, e.g. Mary Shelley, I realized that I have already bought them. I really like Delphi Classics, but not enough to buy something twice!

[jgaiser]

And unfortunately a number of them are either not available or not available as complete collections due to copyright.

That said, I did pick up the Ambrose Bierce collection and the Bram Stoker collection.

[Dr. Drib]

I'll definitely be picking up the Arthur Machen and M.R. James.

If you like well-written, mannered horror, then those are the ones to read.

I already have most of these works, the ones that are already available as ebooks, but it's nice to have them one large volume and with illustrations.




Don

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Just got this email from Delphi Classics for a whopping 50% off on selected authors.

Check your emails!

I have no affiliation, in any context, with Delphi Classics - except that they take my money and I take their ebooks.

Thanks for the heads-up. I've bought a lot of books from them - but I didn't get the email.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Thanks for the heads-up. I've bought a lot of books from them - but I didn't get the email.

You're welcome.

Do you have the coupon code?



Don

[BenG]

The Complete Works of Arthur Machen doesn't have my favorite, London Adventure. Is it still in copyright?

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

You're welcome.

Do you have the coupon code?



Don

Yep, it's on their website. Thanks.

[tubemonkey]

Did Delphi ever rescind their "policy change" of offering free updates for only a year after the server fiasco from last January?

[Prestidigitweeze]

What's the difference between "ePub (U.S. version)" and "ePub ebook"? Is it a question of formatting, spelling conventions, payment method, legalities or something else?

Edit:

Never mind; I sorted it here (and the results are disappointing):

Product Description

US Customers: the complete works is not available due to copyright restrictions. Please select the US version from the drop down Format list.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze

What's the difference between "ePub (U.S. version)" and "ePub ebook"? Is it a question of formatting, spelling conventions, payment method, legalities or something else?

Edit:

Never mind; I sorted it here (and the results are disappointing):

Product Description

It's our friend, Mr Copyright

[Dr. Drib]

Just now purchased these three authors:


1) Arthur Machen
2) M.R. James
3) Ambrose Bierce


I'm off to do my reading:

"Happy trails to you, until we meet again....'





Don

[Prestidigitweeze]

Mine were as follows:

Arthur Machen
M. R. James (I have a far more carefully edited edition to read but have found essays which refer to works in the Delphi that you can't find anywhere else)
Nikolai Gogol
Ambrose Bierce
Mary Shelley (but only for essays and fiction I've never seen by her before)

Still looking at Le Fanu, though more for research than pleasure.

With the FRUITFULNESS coupon:

John Clare
W.B. Yeats
John Donne

Pity there's no John Webster, Thomas Love Peacock, William Alabaster, Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas Lovell Beddoes or George Darley.

Edit: And no Thomas De Quincey! I so wanted to read his book on style again.

I'm mystified as to how they can include Yeats legally.

[pynch]

Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze

Mine were as follows:

Arthur Machen
M. R. James (I have a far more carefully edited edition to read but have found essays which refer to works in the Delphi that you can't find anywhere else)
Nikolai Gogol
Ambrose Bierce
Mary Shelley (but only for essays and fiction I've never seen by her before)

Still looking at Le Fanu, though more for research than pleasure.

With the FRUITFULNESS coupon:

John Clare
W.B. Yeats
John Donne

Pity there's no John Webster, Thomas Love Peacock, William Alabaster, Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas Lovell Beddoes or George Darley.

Edit: And no Thomas De Quincey! I so wanted to read his book on style again.

I'm mystified as to how they can include Yeats legally.

Why buy the Bierce, when we have his fictional works—though not his essays (yet)—here on MR, uploaded by your most humble colleague?

What mystifies you about Yeats’ appearance on Delphi Classics? He died in 1939 and is PD almost everywhere (outside the U.S.).

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by pynch

Why buy the Bierce, when we have his fictional works—though not his essays (yet)—here on MR, uploaded by your most humble colleague?

In fact I had downloaded your version, Pynch, and thanks for that.

Since Delphi editions tend not to be as carefully edited as yours (or, for that matter other editions by people who care), the only reason to buy them is to add works that haven't appeared in other editions. I know from looking at M.R. James sites that the Delphi edition has a few things which don't appear in A Pleasing Terror. Not that that James has been a huge influence or interest, mind -- only, I've become interested in tracing the influence of proto-genre writers, which is why I picked up the Machen as well: Writers who worked in now-recognizable popular forms before a blueprint was imposed.

Then again, I saw Don's notice while swallowing a hasty lunch just before returning to the ordeal of editing swill on a deadline, so I didn't read Delphi's never-before-published-in-an-e-book claims as uncritically as I might have ordinarily.

I can tell you that the first Delphi edition I actually tried after looking at the Yeats -- Gogol's complete works (excluding the copious number he burned) -- made me tear up for reasons that had nothing to do with the tragic satire in Dead Souls: The levels of error in that volume are heart-liquefying.

What mystifies you about Yeats’ appearance on Delphi Classics? He died in 1939 and is PD almost everywhere (outside the U.S.).

I don't want to answer that question publicly because I'd hate to see Delphi's edition get pulled (unless someone a tad more conscientious (and aesthetically attenuated) cared to create another).