https://victorrees.com Victor Rees Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:22:51 +0000 https://victorrees.com en https://victorrees.com/Articles Sun, 01 May 2022 13:57:31 +0000 Victor Rees https://victorrees.com/Articles &nbsp; Dysfluent Messengers: Angelic Aphasia in the Novels of B. Catling, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (March 2026) Beyond the door, behind the veil: Brian Catling and the Weird/Visionary tradition, Textual Practice (January 2025) Mud Knowledge: some aspects of Brian Catling’s Angels, Swedenborg Review 0.05 (December 2024) The Hollow and the Voor: Epiphanic intersections in the work of Arthur Machen and B. Catling, Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen no. 48 (Winter 2023/2024) https://victorrees.com/About-Caterwen-Press Sun, 01 May 2022 13:57:31 +0000 Victor Rees https://victorrees.com/About-Caterwen-Press Caterwen is a private press I revived in 2021. It was originally created by my father Arfon Rees in 2001, through which he published his book Welsh Outlaws and Bandits: Political Rebellion and Lawlessness in Wales, 1440-1603. “Caterwen” is an archaic Welsh word for “great oak,” but it was also used to refer to a nobleman or the mistress of a house. My father died in 2019, before I could ask him why he’d settled on that particular name for his private press. I see this project as a way of carrying on something he began, while also exploring new creative directions. Book Notes (updated December 2025) ︎ Collecting the Ninth of September (updated August 2025)&nbsp;︎ Gunhild’s Mere, collaboration with Amanda Schwarzfeldt (May 2022)&nbsp;︎ Les Illuminations / Illuminations (March 2022)&nbsp;︎ Matches (June 2021)&nbsp;︎ &nbsp; https://victorrees.com/A-Mystery-of-Remnant Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:49:10 +0000 Victor Rees https://victorrees.com/A-Mystery-of-Remnant A Mystery of Remnant and Other Absences Edited by Victor Rees and Iain Sinclair Swan River Press (July 2025) “The death itself was not a bodily thing.” A ghost is an absence defined by its presence, or else a presence defined by its absence. The work of Brian Catling is filled with such visions, intrusions on the threshold of our world and the next. The stories collected within are fragments of a singular imagination, portals into worlds populated by dog-headed giants and reanimated bog bodies, spirits both beastly and mundane. These are tales about visionaries and mystics, about the need to venture into blurry territories of sight in which angels, ghosts and memories merge and reform. Together they showcase the distinctive voice underlying the very best of Catling’s work. Includes three postcards with photos by Iain Sinclair and new texts by Alan Moore Purchase here <img width="1043" height="1600" width_o="1043" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb13040788e67f4b6e42a8b21a3814d5c2b515a50e7d619c9fca242ff4554613/remnant.png" data-mid="242184208" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb13040788e67f4b6e42a8b21a3814d5c2b515a50e7d619c9fca242ff4554613/remnant.png" /> https://victorrees.com/The-Lamb-and-the-Cockatrice Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:22:51 +0000 Victor Rees https://victorrees.com/The-Lamb-and-the-Cockatrice The Lamb and the Cockatrice A patchwork bestiary written and illustrated by Victor Rees Child Be Strange (June 2026) “Before the fields of snow, and before the valleys of rock and sand, the Cockatrice had lived in the dark…” Raised in a cave by her father, the Cockatrice is warned she cannot leave until she is ready – since her eyes turn all animals and people to stone, and her feet leave a desert in her wake. When she is suddenly left to fend for herself, the Cockatrice must come to terms with how lonely and hostile the world can be. That is until she makes a surprising new friend, who seems stranger and more wonderful than anything she could imagine. Purchase here <img width="3605" height="4724" width_o="3605" height_o="4724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/923fab68b061b41f81763df32ad93ae114315c2c2bb4344bae0794ada95ad83c/VL-cover-final-27.4-cropped.jpg" data-mid="247632076" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/923fab68b061b41f81763df32ad93ae114315c2c2bb4344bae0794ada95ad83c/VL-cover-final-27.4-cropped.jpg" /> https://victorrees.com/Haunting-the-Ghost Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:51:45 +0000 Victor Rees https://victorrees.com/Haunting-the-Ghost Haunting the Ghost By Victor Rees Three Impostors Press (July 2025) 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 of everyday life, glimpses through the doors of the secret city: London Adventures can be any or all of these. In Haunting the Ghost, 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… Other authors in the London Adventures series have included Iain Sinclair, Xiaolu Guo, Andrew Kötting, Catherine Fisher and John Rogers. Purchase here <img width="640" height="881" width_o="640" height_o="881" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a659697abf47b03d01d5f4d5db4b6b5fa5259b3a5be33ea6534663d56f2a50b/haunting.png" data-mid="242184218" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/1a659697abf47b03d01d5f4d5db4b6b5fa5259b3a5be33ea6534663d56f2a50b/haunting.png" /> https://victorrees.com/This-into-That Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:57:20 +0000 Victor Rees https://victorrees.com/This-into-That This into That Text by Victor Rees, illustrations by Monika Beisner Child Be Strange (May 2025) "Let us look at one of these dreams a little closer, and gently unscrew the lid and peek inside..." A story of changes, a children’s alchemical primer. This into That is itself a work of metamorphosis, using images produced in 1974 but never published as the basis for a brand new tale, creating new meanings and narratives out of the old. It tells the story of young girl who ventures first through the kingdom of the beasts of earth, then the kingdom of the beasts of air, and finally the kingdom of the beasts of water.&nbsp; Purchase here <img width="724" height="834" width_o="724" height_o="834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fda7c4e60bb98e58efac21d36524db361d304c532823cc172b369bd6397627ad/this.png" data-mid="242184242" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/724/i/fda7c4e60bb98e58efac21d36524db361d304c532823cc172b369bd6397627ad/this.png" />