On Friday 4 July, as part of a long-running series of collaborative events with other publishers, Swedenborg House will host the launch of the latest publication in the Three Impostors Press series, London Adventures: Haunting the Ghost; or, a Year in the City by Victor Rees.

Haunting the Ghost includes a chapter which features a visit to the Swedenborg House Bookshop, and consideration of Emanuel Swedenborg’s philosophy.

The evening will see Victor Rees in conversation with Timothy J Jarvis and feature readings from Haunting the Ghost by the author and Iain Sinclair.

About the book

Spectres of dead writers in the London streets, random meetings, quests and journeys stalking ghosts across the city, the past seeping through the pavements, the unexpected erupting through the fabric of everyday life, glimpses through the doors of the secret city: London Adventures can be any or all of these.

In Haunting the Ghost, the seventh contribution to the series, Victor Rees moves to London to research the work of artist and writer Brian Catling, entering a world of signs and coincidence, intrigue, doppelgängers and possession…

Bios

VICTOR REES is a London-based writer, performer and academic whose work explores the intersection of the mystic and the grotesque. His stories and articles have been published by Textual Practice, Swedenborg House, Albion Village Press and The Friends of Arthur Machen. With Iain Sinclair he co-edited A Mystery of Remnant and Other Absences, a collection of Brian Catling’s short stories published by Swan River Press. Rees also performs as part of the group keys cut, a living almanac whose practice merges storytelling, live music, puppetry and shadow-play.

TIMOTHY J JARVIS is a writer with an interest in the antic, the weird, and the strange. His cult ‘last man’ novel, The Wanderer, was first released in 2014 by Perfect Edge and republished in a new edition by Zagava in 2022, and a collection of short fiction, Treatises on Dust, was published by Swan River Press in 2023.

IAIN SINCLAIR is considered one of London’s greatest chroniclers. For the Swedenborg Society he has written Blake’s London: The Topographic Sublime (2011); Swimming to Heaven: The Lost Rivers of London (2013); (with Brian Catling) Several Clouds Colliding (2012); and (as editor and contributor) Gifts Returned by the River (2025).

About the publisher

THREE IMPOSTORS is a small publisher established in Newport, south Wales in 2012, with the aim of producing high quality, scholarly versions of interesting, rare and out-of-print books, along with other related new writing. Their first project was the republication of Arthur Machen’s three-volume autobiography: Far Off Things, which appeared in 2013, followed by The London Adventure the following year, and Things Near and Far in 2015. They also published Our Unknown Everywhere, an edited version of a lecture given in 2013 by Iain Sinclair in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Machen’s birth. In spring 2023 they launched a new project. London Adventures is a series of individually published short stories, non-fiction pieces or autobiographical writings by a number of different authors. By the end of 2024 contributions by Iain Sinclair, Xiaolu Guo, Catherine Fisher, Robert Kingham and John Rogers had been published, with further titles planned for 2025 and 2026. www.threeimpostors.co.uk