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July 22, 2014
Cover Story: The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
Over at his website, artist Vincent Chong talks about the inspiration and process behind the cover for the upcoming Spectral Book of Horror Stories from Spectral Press, edited by Mark Morris.
Go here for the scoop.
Black-Winged Angels: Proofing
Yesterday I spent the entire day going through the galley for Black-Winged Angels, my reprint collection coming in August from the lovely folk at Ticonderoga Publications.
It also gave me a chance to see how beautifully the papercuts by Kathleen Jennings compliments the stories.
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July 21, 2014
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 to all who entered!
July 20, 2014
Like Chicken Man, I am everywhere … today at least
Over at Alan Baxter’s place I answer five questions about my Spectral chapbook, Home and Hearth, and a variety of other horror and dinner party related things.
1. What’s “Hearth and Home” all about and why did you write this story?
Well, it’s about a woman whose teenaged son has come home
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Over in the Shock Room
WOMAN SCREAMING, ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Today, the lovely S.P. Miskowski hosts me over at the Shock Room, where I ramble about ten short horror stories that have always stuck with me.
I’ve written a lot about the fairy tales I loved as a child and how they’ve influenced my writing, but I also read a
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Lisa Tuttle’s Something Sinister in Sunlight
Of Lisa Tuttle’s work, Dave Langford has said “Tuttle writes well and knows just how to push the gooseflesh button. I’d say more but it’s difficult to type while trembling under the bedclothes.” Speaks for itself, really. Below, Lisa talks about her story “Something Sinister in Sunlight” from The
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July 17, 2014
Cover reveal: Dreams of Shadow and Smoke
And this is the gorgeous cover for Swan River Press’s Dreams of Shadow and Smoke: Stories for J.S. Le Fanu, edited by Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers. Further details are here.
Ze blurb:
“Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in human flesh.” — Uncle
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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 some questions for us.
1. Can you remember the first horror story you read that made an impact
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July 15, 2014
Random Frippery
These arrived today from RedBubble. Thanks for organising them, Kathleen Jennings!
