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July 15, 2014
Michael Marshall Smith on The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
The prolific and talented Mr Michael Marshall Smith has taken some time to answer a few questions about horror in general and The Spectral Book of Horror in particular.
1. Can you remember the first horror story you read that made an impact on you? I can – though I don’t
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Competition: Home and Hearth
My author copies of Home and Hearth from Spectral Press have arrived! So I’m running a competition and giving away two copies to readers.
Just email me at me@angelaslatter.com and say “Hi, Angela” (yes, it’s the minimal requirements competition) and I’ll use a highly technical selection system involving a hat and pieces of
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July 13, 2014
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Mark Morris
The delightful and rather legendary Mr Mark Morris is the editor for the first volume of The Spectral Book of Horror Stories from Spectral Press (brainchild of the equally delightful Mr Simon Marshall-Jones). Mark was kind enough to answer some questions for me about the upcoming anthology in
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July 10, 2014
Cover reveal – Suspended in Dusk
Behold, the cover for the Simon Dewar edited Suspended in Dusk from Books of the Dead. 
Huzzah!
19 fantastic authors of the dark,the horrific, and the bizarre, will show you what it means to be Suspended in Dusk.
“SUSPENDED IN DUSK offers a delicious assortment of chills, frights, shocks and very
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And so …
… this happened last night: Alan Baxter’s Bound had its official launch at Kinokuniya in Sydney. By Margo Lanagan, so not too shabby. The book’s already going gangbusters and has gone into a second print run, and is doing very well in the review stakes. If you like fast-paced, gritty urban fantasy then Bound is the
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July 8, 2014
Over here, Pete talks about write club
My good mate and fellow write-clubber, Peter M. Ball is a much better blogger than I (as well as a self-described cantankerous house-cat).
Over here, he talks about our five years of write club, which has had a huge impact on both of our careers. It’s certainly one of the major
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July 3, 2014
Postcards!
The postcards for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings have arrived!
But you can’t see them yet as we’ve not revealed the cover.
But I do have to sign 350 to send off to Tartarus Press to go with the books when they’re sent out, so you can have a look at the backs.
I’m
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July 1, 2014
The Writer in Winter
Well, mainly the writer is freezing. Queensland is not a state which concerns itself with winter overly much mostly because we’re in denial for ten months of the years that it even occurs. As a result, we don’t really insulate our houses properly, nor do we get something handy like underfloor heating.
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June 23, 2014
June 22, 2014
New story: Mr Underhill
Snurched from http://www.ucd.ie/ucdtoday/2013/01-sp...
A new story is making its presence known today, “Mr Underhill”, which I think will end up going in my Noose & Gibbet collection for next year. I suspect it will be nasty.
Mr Underhill
When children go under the hill, they don’t come out again.
Ever.
When children go under the
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