Angela Slatter's Blog, page 102

Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Nicholas Royle’s This Video Does Not Exist

The multi-talented Mr Nicholas Royle is not only a writer, but also a senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School, and runs the acclaimed Nightjar Press. He’s edited sixteen anthologies and is the author of seven novels, two novellas, and one collection. He took some
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Over at Thirteen O’Clock …

…  Andrew McKiernan gives Home and Hearth a very kind review.

This review will be short, because ‘Home and Hearth’ is short. That’s not to say the length in any way diminishes its strength or impact. Instead, the growing sense of dread seems concentrated, distilled to achieve maximum effect.

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Snapshot 2014

The 2014 Snapshot of Australian Speculative Fiction is being conducted even as I type.

The lovely Random Alex interview me over here.

And the rest of the Snapshots can be viewed at these various blogs:

http://crankynick.livejournal.com/tag/2014snapshot
http://bookonaut.blogspot.com.au/search/label/2014snapshot
h ttp://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/tag/2014snapshot/
http://fablecroft.com.au/tag/2014snapshot
http://helenstubbs.wordpress.com/tag/2014snapshot/
http://jasonnahrung.com/tag/2014snapshot/
http://kathrynlinge.livejournal.com/tag/2014snapshot
http://mayakitten.livejournal.com/tag/2014snapshot

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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Helen Marshall’s Funeral Rites

Helen Marshall is the author of the British Fantasy award-winning Hair Side, Flesh Side (which is indeed brilliant), Gifts for the One Who Comes After and The Sex Lives of Monsters, as well as many short stories scattered lovingly across the planet (possibly the Universe, who knows?).
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Exile

An embarrassment of riches! My friend and write club buddy, Peter M. Ball, has had his novella, Exile, released into the wild. You should read it because you’d have to go a long way to find a better gritty urban fantasy with a dark sense of humour limning its edges.

Pete
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Alison Littlewood’s The Dog’s Home

Alison Littlewood is the author of the thoroughly unsettling A Cold Season, The Path of Needles, and The Unquiet House – it’s therefore entirely appropriate for her to be in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories! She’s been kind enough to answer a few questions for me about her work
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Stephen Volk’s Newspaper Heart

Mr Stephen Volk is the mind behind such gems as Gothic, Ghostwatch, and Afterlife … please take a moment to indulge in the traditional Wayne’s World “We’re not worthy” obeisance. Done? Excellent. He’s been quite rightly described as “one of the godfathers of British horror” (Michael Wilson, This is Horror),
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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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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!