Publisher Eric Lane has said, "We like the bizarre, the grotesque, the surreal and the clever, preferably in the same book.
For instance David Madsen’s Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, Sylvie Germain’s The Book of Night and Vladimir Sharov’s Before and During.
"[2] Prize-winning Dedalus writers have included novelist Andrew Crumey and translator Margaret Jull Costa.
Established by Geoffrey Smith, Eric Lane and Robert Irwin, Dedalus was launched on 30 November 1983 with the publication of three novels including Irwin's The Arabian Nightmare and Smith's vampire novel The Revenants (bylined "Geoffrey Farrington").
It brought acclaimed European writers Sylvie Germain and Herbert Rosendorfer into English for the first time.