Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood — the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.
(Jean Cocteau, Opium)
(Jean Cocteau, Opium)
Opium was one of the narcotics with the greatest impact on human culture. Its production and commercialization provoked colonial wars and its consumption, in specific places, the opium dens, was a kind of strange attraction in many places around the world. Events in these dens, the improvised ones — like the hotel room where the writer Jacques Vaché died — or not, a truly building for opium smokers, always seem to hold something frightening. It was with this in mind that Claude Farrère wrote a short story, “Ce qui se passa dans la maison du boulevard Thiers”, about strange supernatural occurrences in one of these opium dens.
This tale was the inspiration for OpiuM, the second Graphic Novel by Raphus Press. With the script written by the editor, Alcebiades Diniz Miguel, and illustrations by the extraordinary Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos, it is a visionary and fierce work due to the fluid and almost mythical forms constructed by Lupe. This profane and labyrinthine material will be supplemented by introductory text by Jonathan Wood.
As an OpiuM release promotion, we will re-release (in a very limited edition) our first Graphic Novel, E(xtinction), for a reasonable price in a combo with OpiuM.
OpiuM, Graphic Novel with story by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel and illustrations by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos (with introductory note by Jonathan Wood), brochure in A4 size, only 120 copies with a few additional hors d’oeuvre pieces. Available for pre-sale (product in production, would be done in 90 days) in our website now (below, via PayPal) or in the Ziesings (US) as soon as possible. The price: only USD 40.00 bucks. A combo with E(xtinction) are available as well.
This tale was the inspiration for OpiuM, the second Graphic Novel by Raphus Press. With the script written by the editor, Alcebiades Diniz Miguel, and illustrations by the extraordinary Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos, it is a visionary and fierce work due to the fluid and almost mythical forms constructed by Lupe. This profane and labyrinthine material will be supplemented by introductory text by Jonathan Wood.
As an OpiuM release promotion, we will re-release (in a very limited edition) our first Graphic Novel, E(xtinction), for a reasonable price in a combo with OpiuM.
OpiuM, Graphic Novel with story by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel and illustrations by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos (with introductory note by Jonathan Wood), brochure in A4 size, only 120 copies with a few additional hors d’oeuvre pieces. Available for pre-sale (product in production, would be done in 90 days) in our website now (below, via PayPal) or in the Ziesings (US) as soon as possible. The price: only USD 40.00 bucks. A combo with E(xtinction) are available as well.
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OpiuM + Mail expenses for all the world (USD 40.00)
OpiuM + E(xtinction) + Mail expenses for all the world (USD 75.00)
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The opinion of our readers
Golden Age of Clairvoyance
"Well I have received the books today and I had certain high expectations and I must say such high expectations were well exceeded. The selectivity of the authors as I may have mentioned before (both individually and in combination) and translations are impeccable. The book design is exquisite and enhances the holistic reading experience (by way of comparison, on first seeing the books I had the same sense of elation when I had received my first Sylph Edition Cahiers a few years ago)."
(Andrew Condous)
(Andrew Condous)
"The books look really nice - I'm especially liking the full-color images inside. Very good design."
(Damian Murphy)
(Damian Murphy)
"The chapbooks are beautiful. Well done! Equally engaging for the eye and mind."
(Rachel Kinbar)
(Rachel Kinbar)
"The initial print-run of all three is, of course, low, so any interested readers should make a quick decision; because I do hope Raphus continue on their path of intriguing little translations of the recovered uncanny and esoteric."
(Mark Andresen at Pan Review)
(Mark Andresen at Pan Review)
The great weird and fantastic connoisseur, Des Lewis, made an insightful review of Black Mirror, the second chapbook in the series, available in this link.
Spiritual Meaning of the Massacres
"Many thanks for sending me a copy of The Mendicant. It really looks rather good – a bit like one of the books you read about in short stories that start off ‘Beware if you read these words... too late!"
(Stephen Cashmore)
(Stephen Cashmore)
"It's a marvelous production, and it's great that you have resurrected the remarkable title piece. I also enjoyed the pamphlet (...). Long may Raphus Press reign!"
(Chris Mikul)
(Chris Mikul)
"I am absolutely delighted with them [The Mendicant of the Books and The Sacred Abysmal Perspective]! They are both true examples of true and original creative philosophical ingenuity, originality and also design. They are fantastickal chapbooks and it is an equal delight to have been able to contribute and to assist in other ways. Although I saw the proofed editions when you e-mailed them to me, now that they are in my hands, they veritably glow and crackle and weep with their malign embers.
I shall take myself off on a sacred journey this weekend, like the early priests going to Tibet, and will immerse myself in the deep folds and ravines these chapbooks open up."
(Jonathan Wood)
I shall take myself off on a sacred journey this weekend, like the early priests going to Tibet, and will immerse myself in the deep folds and ravines these chapbooks open up."
(Jonathan Wood)
