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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Alison Moore’s Eastmouth

The fact that Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse was shortlisted for the Man Booker should tell you all you need to know about the quality of her work – but I just can’t resist adding a quote from Black Static’s Peter Tennant about her “Small Animals”: ‘Moore writes a pitch perfect
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Conrad Williams’ The Devil’s Interval

The thoroughly unsettling Conrad Williams has written seven novels, including London Revenant, The Unblemished, and Decay Inevitable, as well as four novellas and two short story collections, and has recently signed with Titan Books – a sure sign of a continuing upward trajectory. He’s won two British Fantasy Awards, as
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Over at Alan Baxter’s place …

… Kathleen Jennings and I talk about illustrating and writing The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. But first, Al has this to say:

By now you all know I’m good friends with Angela Slatter. You should also know that I’m a huge fan of her work – it’s great when one of your
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Reggie Oliver’s The Book and the Ring

Leading off this week’s Spectral Book of Horror Stories posts is the superbly talented Mr Reggie Oliver, playwright, author, biographer, actor and director. His Tartarus collection Mrs Midnight won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award, and was a finalist for both the British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards,
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Rio Youers’ Outside Heavenly

Rio Youers is the very talented author of Mama Fish, Westlake Soul, End Times, Old Man Scratch and the collection Dark Dreams, Pale Horses. Here he talks about his Spectral Book of Horror Stories take “Outside Heavenly” and taking inspiration from folk like Clive Barker.

1. Can you remember the first
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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 am drooling over.

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Bad Women: Medusa

So this morning I’m starting what will be a periodic series called Bad Women. Basically I’ve asked some of my favourite writers and editors to write a paragraph or two on their favourite “bad” women in the fiction universe, be it literature, film, tv, graphic novels, legend, myth, fairy or folk tale,
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Tom Fletcher’s Slape

Tom Fletcher is the author of the novels  The Leaping, The Thing on the Shore, and The Ravenclass (all from the lovely Jo Fletcher Books), as well as a host of short stories, including “Slape” from the Mark Morris edited Spectral Book of Horror Stories. Tom has a chat with
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The Bitterwood Bible: Cover Reveal

I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am about this, but I’ll try: a dog with two tails just about covers it.

I came home tonight from listening to Karin Slaughter talk about Coptown to find that the release date for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings has been set for
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Le Fanu at 200: Dreams of Shadow and Smoke

Swan River Press is publishing a tribute anthology this month, Dreams of Shadow and Smoke: Stories for J.S. Le Fanu, which is available for order here. The delightful Brian J. Showers and Jim Rockhill (editors both) answer a few questions for me about what prompted this anthology and Le Fanu’s
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