Tag Archives: A Book of Horrors

The Problem Drive-by: Reggie Oliver

The very lovely and award-winning REGGIE OLIVER has been a professional playwright, actor, and theatre director since 1975. Besides plays, his publications include the authorised biography of Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed, published by Bloomsbury in 1998,
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The Getting It Wrong Drive-by: Ramsey Campbell

Photo by Peter Coleborn

I do not blithely throw the word ‘legendary’ around, so you know Ramsey Campbell deserves it.

The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, his first collection was published in 1964 by the
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The Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint Drive-by: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of (among others) Silk, The Five Cups, The Red Tree, Murder of Angels and the novelisation of the film, Beowulf. She’s also produced over one hundred short stories
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The Ghosts with Teeth Drive-by: Peter Crowther

Peter Crowther is one of those annoyingly multi-talented folk. He’s a journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher, anthologist, and he cannot decide between donuts and danishes – and why should he have to?

His short fiction
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The Near Zennor Drive-by: Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand was kind enough to do a drive-by a few months back. Now she’s back to answer random horror-related questions. Her contribution to A Book of Horrors, Near Zennor, is one
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A Book of Horrors News! A Competition! Special Drive-by Fridays! Otters!

And so, you may have noticed (if you’re especially perspicacious and of a noticing bent – well done, have a jelly baby) another page has been added to this site. Specifically, t’is a site dedicated to
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