Monthly Archives: October 2013
Jo Fletcher: Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
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Our lovely publisher Jo Fletcher of Jo Fletcher Books has the place of honour for the final Fearie Tales post – we launch the book on 2 November at WFC! – and she talks here about
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Singapore
Am in Singapore, preparing to head off on a plane again.
Today is the 13hr trek to the UK.
Where is my matter transporter!!??
Books Written by Mad Ancestors: KJ Bishop
Art by Kathleen Jennings
The wonderful and surreal writing of KJ Bishop has brought us, among other things, the World Fantasy finalist The Etched City and the Aurealis Award winning That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote,
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S P Miskowski’s Knock Knock and the Skillute Cycle
SP Miskowski is one of the finer voices in modern horror fiction. Her work is tense, beautifully paced, and deeply, deeply perceptive as to the human condition and all its foibles, faults and perfections. She was kind enough to answer a
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John Ajvide Lindqvist: Come Unto Me
Today’s Fearie Tales post is from the astonishingly talented Mr John Ajvide Lindqvist, talking about trolls, changelings, doppelganger, and the dead returning to the living
FOR THE SECOND time in less than a month, Annika was walking up the aisle
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Angela Slatter: By the Weeping Gate
And today I, errr, interview myself about my Fearie Tales story, “By the Weeping Gate”.
SEE, HERE?
This house here in Breakwater, this one, by the Weeping Gate where men and women come to wait and weep for those lost to
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Genre Con Oz 2013 – Where Stuff Didst Happenst
So, from Friday 11 Oct through to Sunday 13 Oct, I was embedded in Genre Con Oz at SLQ … in the manner of an especially happy tick in the neck of a particularly juicy bullock.
My photo
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Fearie Tales beginnings
First paragraphs of the Fearie Tales stories from Masters Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Robert Shearman, and Markus Heitz.
Ramsey Campbell: Find My Name
DOREEN WAS AWAKE at once and trying to hear why. A dog barked on the far side of
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Joanne Harris: The Silken People
Snurched from The Guardian
The lovely Joanne Harris talks about The Pied Piper, how horror lurks in the shadows of fairy stories, and the language of the subconscious.
ONCE THERE WAS a little girl,
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