Angela Slatter's Blog, page 103
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!
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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