Pulled Down.
Dorset, UK: Sundial Press, 2021. First Edition Thus - Limited. Softcover. Large octavo. viii + 352pp. Illustrated card covers. A new edition of this work which was first published in London in 1964. This new edition is limited to 300 hand numbered copies, each copy SIGNED and numbered by the author of the Preface, long-time Phyllis Paul collector and admirer David Tibet. A loosely inserted printed sheet has the Proem "All Shall Not Be Well" by Tibet, and is also SIGNED by him and repeats the limitation number. This copy is additionally SIGNED by David Tibet at the end of his Preface. "Phyllis Paul is an unrecognised genius, but her time must surely have come; indeed, it would have come already long ago if not for the remarkable rarity of her published work. 'Pulled Down' is one of her darkest, most harrowing, and deeply atmospheric novels. A family destroyed, murder, moral collapse, Catholic terror, the supernatural tugging at your sleeves, and close behind you the Devil and his devils—and all falls down. One of the few who wrote about her work was the critic Glen Cavaliero. In his essay 'Phyllis Paul: Neglected Novelist' (Little Caesar, #12, 1981), he writes 'Phyllis Paul was not a popular writer.', and speaks of her novels' 'Gothic intensity and preoccupation with visionary awareness… in Phyllis Paul's hands the gothic novel is revitalised.' The description by her publisher W. H. Heinemann on the jacket of her 'A Little Treachery' (1962) describes her work thus: '“The world of Phyllis Paul’s art is not a comfortable one: it is a landscape of contrast and foreboding; shadow and sunshine alternate with an effect of perpetual menace; malign spirits inhabit it, and human folly and cruelty never cease to threaten opposing cheerfulness and courage. It is the world we glimpse with terrible lucidity, in solitude in the middle of the night, and on which we quickly shut our eyes.'" (David Tibet). NEW book in Fine condition. Item #69942
ISBN: 9781908274533
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