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Iconic independent publishing house founded by author Brian Alan Ellis (2003-2007, 2013-present), known for its edgy, transgressive and unconventional approach to literature. Vlad Mag, an online literary journal, started in 2023 // houseofvladpress.com
![Book cover for Vengeance is Mine by Friedrich Torberg, trans by Stephanie Gorrell Ortega (Boiler Room Press): One morning in November 1940, two men meet on New Jersey dock. One, haggard and haunted, says he’s waiting for 75 refugees from Hitler’s Germany. Every day he waits, and every day he leaves — alone. Over a drink in a nearby bar, he relates the story of his imprisonment in a pre-war Nazi concentration camp. Of the SS commandant who separated out all the Jewish inmates and set about a deliberate program to kill them one by one, by torture, beatings, or suicide. Until the day when one inmate found himself faced with a decision: was vengeance, as it says in the Torah, a matter for God alone? Written in 1943 and never before translated into English, Vengeance is Mine [German title: Mein ist die Rache] is the first work of fiction to predict the Nazi’s final solution, their program to exterminate the Jews. Its story is short, stunning, and unforgettable: a 20th century masterpiece. https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/vengeance-is-mine](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtetx7xtjyatfdgoo6qzfjx7/bafkreignthhhy4gzq5ongipgbpqxjdxlnra2bu6ao5bd64e5xhs7nk5jlq)
