Silver Key Press is the anglophone imprint of the French non-profit small press La Clef d'Argent specializing in weird fiction, fantastique, fantasy and
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...
.
It was named as an explicit homage to
H. P. Lovecraft, referring to the short-story «The Silver Key» he wrote in 1926.
Since 1987, La Clef d'Argent has published contemporary stories (
Jean-Pierre Andrevon
Jean-Pierre Andrevon (born 19 September 1937 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French science fiction author, as well as a painter and singer. He has used the pseudonym ''Alphonse Brutsche'' for novels published under the Fleuve Noir label. In add ...
, Jonas Lenn) and essays (
S.T. Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born June 22, 1958) is an American literary critic whose work has largely focused on weird and fantastic fiction, especially the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers.
Career
His literary criticis ...
, Lionel Dupuy), classic English-language stories in French translation (
Clark Ashton Smith,
George Sylvester Viereck) and long-forgotten stories from French masters of the genre (
Édouard Ganche Édouard is both a French given name and a surname, equivalent to Edward in English. Notable people with the name include:
* Édouard Balladur (born 1929), French politician
* Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), French photographer
* Édouard Colonne ...
, Charles de Coynart, Théo Varlet, Gabriel de Lautrec).
La Clef d'Argent now publishes books in
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national id ...
under the imprint Silver Key Press, in
Esperanto
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, as La Arĝenta Ŝlosilo, and in
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
, as La Llave de Plata.
English books published by Silver Key Press
* ''The Sorcerer Departs'' (
Donald Sidney-Fryer
Donald Sidney-Fryer (born September 8, 1934) is a poet and entertainer principally influenced by Edmund Spenser and Clark Ashton Smith.
Born and raised in the Atlantic coastal community of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sidney-Fryer enlisted in ...
)
References
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External links
Silver Key Press
La Clef d'Argent
Small press publishing companies
Horror book publishing companies
Fantasy book publishers
Science fiction publishers