Tag Archives: Mark Morris
The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Paul Meloy
Paul Meloy was born in 1966. He is the author of Islington Crocodiles, Dogs With Their Eyes Shut, The Night Clock and a forthcoming collection called Electric Breakfast. He is working on his second novel, a sequel to The Night Clock. He
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The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Gary Fry
Gary Fry lives in Dracula’s Whitby, literally around the corner from where Bram Stoker was staying when he was thinking about that character. Gary has a PhD in psychology, but his first love is literature. He is the author of many short story
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The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Ray Cluley
Ray Cluley’s short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. He has appeared in a few ‘best of’ anthologies and a couple of his stories have been translated (into French and Polish). He won the British
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The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Stephen Volk
Stephen Volk is the author of the superb novellas, Whitstable and Leytontone, as well as a screenwriter of note, having written Ghostwatch, Afterlife, and Gothic. He’s won BAFTAs and British Fantasy Awards and is generally delightful.
The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Lisa L. Hannett
Lisa L. Hannett has had over 60 short stories appear in venues including Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Apex, the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She has won four Aurealis Awards, including Best Collection for
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The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Nicholas Royle
The delightful Nicholas Royle is a novelist, creative writing lecturer, reviewer, editor and publisher of Nightjar Press. Here he takes some time to chat about his story “The Larder”.
What inspired your story “The Larder”?
If I were to say precisely what inspired “The
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The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Thana Niveau
Thana Niveau is a Halloween bride who lives in a crumbling gothic tower in Wicker Man country. She shares her life with fellow horror scribe John Llewellyn Probert, in a Victorian library filled with arcane books and curiosities. She has twice
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: new review
A new review over at This is Horror by Ross Warren of The Spectral Book of Horror Stories (Mark Morris, ed.). In a fit of self-centredness, I shall tell you only what is said about my story, but all the
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And lo, it is a thing!
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories has come back from the printers and lo, it is a real thing. And a thing of beauty too. Can’t wait to get my hands on one.
It can be pre-ordered here or
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Simon Marshall-Jones
And now, a word from our publisher, the delightful Simon Marshal-Jones, on what inspired the genesis of Spectral Press, why and how the Spectral Book of Horror Stories came about, and the future of horror.
1. What inspired you to start
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