Today is the 200^th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s dystopian novel The Last Man and we are excited to announce that we will be publishing a small collection of essays in the novel’s honour later in the year.  Shelley’s The Last Man was first published in London on 23 January 1826 and, unfortunately, received less than favourable reviews.  Given the novel’s poor reception it remained mostly unrecognised at the time of publication and it wasn’t reprinted until over 100 years later.

Today is the 50^th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon and we are excited to publish ‘Barry Lyndon at 50’, an essay by Alexander Larman, author of Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie, a new biography to be published in January 2026 to honour the 10^th anniversary of David Bowie’s death.  Larman is an historian and literary critic whose previous books include the acclaimed ‘Windsors trilogy’, which examines the British Royal Family from the onset of World War II through the coronation of Elizabeth II, and has written biographies of Lord Rochester as well as Lord Byron.

Today is the 250^th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and we at Gothic Keats Press are excited to publish ‘Thoughts Arising from Living with Jane Austen’, an essay by Professor Janet Todd, author of Living with Jane Austen (2025) from Cambridge University Press.  Professor Todd is a former President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Aberdeen, and her recent publications include the revised Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, the novel Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden, and the memoir/criticism Living with Jane Austen, which was written to coincide with Jane Austen’s 250^th birthday.

We are excited to announce our nominations for the Best of the Net Anthology 2026 edition with Sundress Publications.  We have nominated six poems from our poetry collection ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, which we published in honour of Lord Byron for the bicentenary of his death.

We at Gothic Keats Press are excited to announce the publication of Fairies: A Companion (2025), published by Peter Lang Oxford.  Besides fascinating scholarly essays, such as ‘The Fairy-Land of Science (Arabella Buckley, 1878): Fairies and Science’ by Dr Kirstin A Mills and ‘The Cottingley Fairies (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1920): The Science of the Supernatural’ by Dr Lesley McLean, this new publication also includes original artworks, fiction, and poetry, including stanzas from ‘A Ride Through Faerie’, the title poem to our first published book, A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021) by Clay Franklin Johnson.

Today, on the anniversary of Jane Austen’s death (and in the 250^th year of Austen’s birth), we are proud to announce the publication of our first literary novel, To Feel Nothing, To Love Nothing (2025), Book 1 of The Nothing Series by author Olivia Claire Louise Newman.

Today is the 200^th anniversary of Scottish author George MacDonald’s birth, considered one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy literature, and we are delighted to congratulate our own author Clay Franklin Johnson (A Ride Through Faerie and Other Poems) on winning the Highly Commended Award for his poem ‘The Faery Wood’, one of two prizes given for the Brian Nisbet Poetry Award 2024.

We are excited to announce that we are opening submissions to a collection of contemporary poetry in honour of Lord Byron to commemorate the bicentenary of his death in Missolonghi, Greece on 19 April 1824. The deadline for submissions will be 1 June 2024, and we plan on publishing the collection (in both paperback and electronic formats) on 16 July 2024, which is the anniversary of Byron’s burial in Nottinghamshire, England.

We are delighted to announce the publication of ‘A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem “A Ride Through Faerie”’, an essay that discusses some of the literary inspirations behind our first book’s titular poem. The essay was published in Issue 22 of Gramarye, which is the journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction.

We are pleased to announce FREE SHIPPING on all US orders of our illustrated Hardcover edition of A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021) by Clay Franklin Johnson. For International orders (anywhere in the world other than the US), we are now offering a flat rate of only $10.