Category Archives: fairy tales
Scribbles
In between a million other things, I’m trying to make sure I keep writing my own things … they make me feel happy, grounded when the world is a bit topsy-turvy (like now, end of year, moving house, deadlines, etc). So here is my current scribble, untitled (but let’s call it “Nest” for the moment), but I think it might
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For a Halloween Snack
Stephen J. Clark’s “Homunculus”
Here’s my short story “Sourdough” …
Sourdough
by Angela Slatter
My father did not know that my mother knew about his other wives, but she did.
It didn’t seem to bother her, perhaps because, of them all, she
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Heading into Halloween 2019
If it’s the second year you do it, it’s totally a tradition, right?
So, as I did last year, here are links to all my spooky stories that you can read online for free. They’re not all nice, so
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New Two-Book Deal!
Art by Kathleen Jennings
I’m absolutely delighted to say that, thanks to the excellent work of my beloved agent Meg Davis (Ki Agency), I’ve signed a two-book deal with Cath Trechman of Titan Books.
The novel currently known as Blackwater
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Blackwater
As always art by Kathleen Jennings coz wolves and candlesticks and pouffy skirts …
So, I spent most of last year and the first few months of this year working on a novel called Blackwater. It’s a gothic fantasy
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New Novel
So, I’ve started writing a new novel, Morwood.
Like Blackwater it’s a gothic fantasy set in the Sourdough/Bitterwood world, and I’m at the stage where I love it. It’s new and pretty and we’re in our honeymoon period.
Here’s a first draft
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The Dark Issue 45 – February 2019
The latest issue of The Dark is out in the wild!
There are new stories by Carrie Laben (“The Crying Bride”) and Julia August (“Butterflies and Hurricanes”), and reprints from myself (“The Red Forest”) and Octavia
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Halloween #3: (Vaguely) Witchy Things I’ve Written That You Can Read for Free
Artwork by Kathleen Jennings for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings
Right, so some more Samhain love: links to (Vaguely) Witchy Things I’ve Written That You Can Read for Free.
Thank you to all the wonderful publishers who’ve loved these
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It’s Halloween #2
Artwork by Kathleen Jennings (as pretty much always)
So, in honour of the doors between worlds opening this eve, and all manner of things walking through, here is an older story of mine, “Words” (first published in The Lifted
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A Book of Horrors – Italian Translation
So delighted!! My first translation into Italian – that’s “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” in there.
A beautiful new Italian limited edition of A BOOK OF HORRORS from Alessandro Manzetti’s Independent Legions Publishing.
Contains stories by: stories by Ramsey Campbell, Peter
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