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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: horror
The Call to Arms Drive-by: Stephen Jones and A Book of Horrors
Painting by Les Edwards
Stephen Jones = sine qua non for a successful horror anthology. A Book of Horrors collects original horror stories and is brought out under the aegis of the new imprint from Quercus, Jo Fletcher Books. The book is being lauched this weekend at
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Tagged A Book of Horrors, editing, horror, jo fletcher, stephen jnnes
Read Horror: The vampire is not himself
On the emasculation of the vampire … an excellent column by Simon Marshall-Jones over at the wonderful Read Horror.
I remember, many, many years ago now (over 35, if you must know), badgering my mother into buying me one of the now iconic Aurora model kits that
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Tagged dracula, horror, read horror, Simon Marshall-Jones, vampires
Chapbooky Goodness
I’ve just read the first offering from Simon Marshall-Jones’s Spectral Press, What They Hear in the Dark, by Gary McMahon. The blurb goes thusly:
‘Rob and Becky bought the old place after the death of their son, to repair and renovate – to patch things up and make the
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The Cursebreaking Drive-by: Kyla Ward
Kyla Ward has been short-listed for Ditmars and Aurealis Awards for the stories ‘Kijin Tea’ and ‘The Bat’s Boudoir’. Her short stories have been published in venues which include Shadowed Realms, Agog!, Borderlands, Scary Kisses and Passing Strange – and her poetry has appeared in Bloodsongs and Abbadon. She is
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Drive-by: The Realm Shifting Alan Baxter
Alan Baxter is that rare creature, a horror writer with a touch of subtley 
. As a writer he knows it’s not enough to hack and slash at his protagonists and disposable secondary characters with a chainsaw. He understands that to truly scare
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Tagged amazon, dark shorts, drive-by interview, horror, MageShift, RealmShift
For I Am a Nerd
… and I love this stuff. Thanks to Brain #2 for the linkery
Once upon a time there was a world of tragic princes who had been transformed into small amphibians, beautiful princesses who were temporarily languishing in a life of drudgery, unprepossessing trolls with rights-of-way issues, and a variety of
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Tagged apex, fairy tales, guardian uk books, horror, little red riding hood
The Dead Path
Cool title, yes?
A copy of the above arrived last week via a very large carrier pigeon. It has a striking cover and is the debut novel by Brisneyland resident and filmmaker, Stephen M Irwin http://stephenmirwin.com/.
Why do I mention this? Because I cracked the cover this morning and found myself reading, reading, reading instead of just ‘taking a peak’ as
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Tagged hachette australia, horror, stephen m irwin, the dead path
A Plug – Quality Horror and Science Fiction
For quality horror and science fiction, head over here http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/. Apex have “stuff” by such fine and twisted minds as Lavie Tidhar, Ekaterina Sedia, Theodora Goss, Alethea Kontis, Lisa Mannetti and more. Nothing wrong with any of the foregoing.
Tagged apex books, horror, science fiction, writing
