We have a new release, a reissue, and a restock here at Paradise Editions, and we’re very excited to share them with you. Our newest release is Vaucanson’s Canard from longtime collaborator Eric Williams. Eric edited Night Fears, our anthology of translations that originally appeared in the pioneering pulp magazine Weird Tales. Vaucanson’s Canard is sure to satisfy anyone looking for a fresh spin on historical science-fiction.
Enlightenment France’s foremost artificer seeks to reproduce in clockwork the intricate lifeforms he sees around him—in other words, a mechanical duck. It can digest, seemingly; it can defecate, seemingly. Is Vaucanson’s work an affront to God? An homage to Creation? Or is it something that nobody could have ever anticipated?
24 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches with a hand-sewn binding. Laser printed on premium French Paper with a semi-transparent vellum inner cover. Edition of 199.
Next up is a reprint of our pamphlet Some Essays by Heinrich von Kleist, which came out last fall in a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it run of 29 copies. We’re making more!
Can a work of art reject its viewer? What if human beings have no control over their actions? What if recognizing this was the key to absolute freedom? These are some of the questions posed by Heinrich von Kleist in this collection. Published in rapid succession during the last year of his life, these brief but challenging essays present the finest distillation of Kleist’s thoughts on art, history, and philosophy.
28 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, with a hand-sewn binding. Laser printed on premium French Paper with a semi-transparent vellum inner cover. Edition of 199.
These two pamphlets both feature automata (digesting ducks and dancing puppets) and can be purchased together with the Automaton Bundle. 25% off the finest in handmade literature. The 18th century comes to unlife.
And finally, after selling out our copies at NecronomiCon 2026, we’ve restocked Territories of the Soul/On Intonation, which gathers two collections of poetry and prose by the East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig:
A beach polluted by caustic sludge, a forest strewn with gun emplacements, a mirror projecting an émigré’s haunted reflection, these are some of the borders contemplated by Wolfgang Hilbig in Territories of the Soul/On Intonation. Published during the twilight years of the GDR, these collections find the renowned East German writer grappling with tectonic changes inside and around him. Moving between lyric poetry, personal essay, and gothic horror, Territories of the Soul/On Intonation showcases Hilbig's remarkable versatility and depth of feeling.
89 pages, 5 x 7 inches.