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Snoopy Dancing news
Great news the other day: I finished (at last!) my first piece of fiction since I submitted my brain-shredding PhD. The idea occurred to me about 4 weeks post-PhD but then it took me about 7 weeks to...
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The unquiet quiet
Yes, this place has been very quiet … still. Sorry. In my defence, I’ve been finishing Midnight and Moonshine with Lisa. We’ve sent it to Russ the Publisher. Now it’s back to a kind of normality. A...
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The Lair’s Just So, So Special: Robert Shearman
Par Kathleen Jennings We love writer, director and playwright Robert Shearman – we don’t even have to kidnap him. He travels quite willing to the country of interview and stays for tea and cupcakes....
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An appropriate Jennings World Fantasy noms are out today and I cannot contain my delight to note that Lisa L. Hannett’s debut collection Bluegrass Symphony is on the shortlist for Best Collection....
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Remember why you fear Robert Shearman
In today’s mail, Rob Shearman’s wonderfully dark and disturbing new collection, Remember Why You Fear Me. An excellent offering from the lovely folk at Chizine, and with an Introduction by Mr Stephen...
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British Fantasy Society Horror Anthology
Cover by David Whitlam I’m delighted to find that Mr Johnny Mains has announced his provisional line-up for the above anthology, and even more delighted to find I am in it. My fellow victims are (in no...
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Okay, this is what arrived in this morning’s mail – sorry for the dodgy video (hey, I’m a writer, not a cinematographer), but I wanted to show how gorgeous and special this book is. A Book of Horrors,...
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Helen Marshall: Have Fluency in Ecclesiastical Latin, Will Travel
When I was a kid I genuinely thought everyone who wrote books had died a long time ago. Like the dinosaurs. I had never seen a writer. I figured people didn’t write books anymore. (soon-to-be Dr) Helen...
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Super Sekrit Project Revealed
Original art by Alan Lee I seem to have been sitting on this one forever, but at last I can reveal that Mr Stephen Jones has taken “By the Weeping Gate” for his new anthology, Fearie Tales: Stories of...
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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....
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Uber-special Fearie Tales!
I’m so excited about this: PS Publishing have their very special limited edition of Fearie Tales available for pre-order. It looks absolutely gorgeous. Check it out at PS or Subterranean. 200 copies...
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The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
Very happy to announce that I’ve got a story in this inaugural volume from Spectral Press and edited by the redoubtable Mark Morris! Look at that ToC! ON THE TOUR – RAMSEY CAMPBELL THE DOG’S HOME –...
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: John Llewellyn Probert’s The Life Inspector
Grand Master of Melodramatic Horror Mayhem, John Llewellyn Probert, (The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine is well worth the read) is one of the Spectral Book of Horror Stories authors and kindly answers...
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Competition results
My Significant Other, the Tech Badger, undertook barrel-person duties and drew names from the official competition hat. Copies of Home and Hearth are going out to Stacey Larner and Steve Ormsby. Thanks...
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Fearie Tales
And the embarrassment of riches continues! The postie just dropped off this parcel, containing the limited edition of Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, courtesy of PS Publishing. Yes, I...
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Year’s Best Horror Volume 7
Full ToC reveal and final cover! Squeeeee! “The Atlas of Hell” by Nathan Ballingrud (Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications) “Winter Children” by Angela Slatter (Postscripts...
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The Sourdough Posts: Lost Things
Rackham’s Sweet Roland “Lost Things” is one of my personal favourites in the Sourdough collection, I think possibly because there’s a genuine comedic turn to it. It’s black comedy, to be sure, but I...
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HORROROLOGY: THE LEXICON OF FEAR
And here’s another secret I’ve been sitting on for ages, the new anthology from Stephen Jones and Jo Fletcher Books Horrorology: The Lexicon of Fear, with cover art and internals by Mr Clive Barker....
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In which the Dance of Happiness is Done
Lisa’s photo So I woke to a text from my dearest Brain, Lisa L. Hannett, sent while she was exploring far-flung Lindisfarne on her Great Viking Adventure Time, saying “WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP, MY...
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Horrorology Interviews: Jo Fletcher
Jo and Steve, (c) Peter Colebron Today’s final Horrorology post is from the lovely Jo Fletcher, our redoubtable publisher. This is the third horror anthology you’ve published with Steve as editor –...
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