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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Tag Archives: Black-Winged Angels
New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl
(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch.)
‘Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for
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Shallow and Superficial
And thank you to Lisette, who says this cat reminds her of me -.-
Peter Tennant asked me the questions that gave me the opportunity to be “just as shallow and superficial as the rest of us” … so, in effect, an extended version of a drive-by 
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Black Static #21 and now we shall snoopy dance
My excitement could only be greater if Christopher Lee had been on the cover. But Peter Cushing makes me *almost* as happy 
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The delightful Peter Tennant interviewed me and reviewed Black-Winged Angels, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, and Sourdough
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Little Red Riding Hood – Life off the Path
This is an article I wrote – it formed part of my Masters “Black-Winged Angels” – and it appeared in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 (March 2008). For when boredom strikes and one is feeling particularly nerdly … it has appalling bad footnotes and a bibliography, for which I apologise profusely – my academic streak is thin, if
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