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New Online Collection of my Stories

Just received confirmation this morning that a collection of my stories will be published online by an American publisher. Title of the collection is yet to be confirmed, but the stories included are a novelette, The Worst of All Possible Places, originally published in Houses on the Borderland, Lock In and Their Own Mad Demons, which were originally published in the Black Books of Horror, The Fragile Mask on his Face, which appeared in Dark Discoveries, and The True Spirit, which was published in the award winning anthology Back from the Dead.

More information later.

The Screaming Book of Horror

Unfortunately the launch for The Screaming Book of Horror was scuppered at FantasyCon because the printers were unable to deliver it on time. Copies are available now, though, from this link. With a brand new story by the late John Brunner, not to mention the likes of Bernard Taylor, Reggie Oliver, Christopher Fowler, John Burke, and Man Booker nominee, Alison Moore, this is an important book which everyone interested in the horror genre should get.

Table of Contents
Christenings Can Be Dangerous – John Llewellyn Probert
Larva – John Brunner
The Swarm – Alison Littlewood
Natural Selection – Robin Ince
One of the Family – Bernard Taylor
Cut! – Anna Taborska
The Christmas Toys – Paul Finch
The Quixote Candidate – Rhys Hughes
Helping Mummy – Kate Farell
The City of Plenty – Alex Miles
The Iron Cross – Craig Herbertson
Sometimes You Think You Are Alone – Alison Moore
Bird Doll – Claire Massey
What Shall We Do About Barker? – Reginald Oliver
Old Grudge Ender – David A. Riley
Jack and Jill – Steve Rasnic Tem
The Blackshore Dreamer – John Burke
Imagination – Christopher Fowler
The Baby Trap – Janine Wood
The Tip Run – Johnny Mains
Dementia – Charlie Higson

British Fantasy Awards

Congratulations to all the winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2012.

The full list of winners is as follows:

August Derleth Novel: The Ritual by Adam Nevill (Pan)
Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel: Among Others by Jo Walton
Novella: Gorel and the Pot Bellied God by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Short Fiction: The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter by Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Anthology: The Weird; editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
Collection: Everyone’s Just So So Special by Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Pari
Comic/Graphic Novel: Locke and Key; Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
The PS Publishing Independent Press Award:Chomu Press
Best Magazine: Black Static
Artist: Daniele Serra
Nonfiction: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
Karl Edward Wagner Award: Nicky and Peter Crowther of PS Publishing
BFS/Sydney J Bounds Best Newcomer award: Kameron Hurley

World Fantasy Convention 2013

Booked what we were told was the last available double bedroom at the convention hotel this afternoon for the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton next year. Whew! Would have hated to have to go for one of the overspills.

The convention hotel, The Hilton Brighton Metropole, looks brilliant.

The Poe House in Baltimore

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This is Edgar Allan Poe's house on 203 N. Amity Street in Baltimore, which looks amazingly small. 
For more information about Poe click here.

Demons and Nightmares

I have a small group of my longer stories off with a publisher at the moment for a possible collection. Am toying with the title of Demons and Nightmares. I don't know of any other collection with that title and have made a quick search online without success. My thoughts are to aim at a possible series, with the next called, obviously, Demons and Nightmares 2.

Bring Back the Pan Books of Horror - campaign

A campaign has been launched on Facebook to persuade Pan to relaunch the Pan Books of Horror.

The Pan Books series was a horror icon that has been sadly missed. Horror writer, author and publisher, Johnny Mains has tried to get Pan to restart the series, but so far, despite some genuine interest in it by Pan, failed to get them to take the last few steps.

If you would like to see the series revived, click onto the link above and lend your support.

The Dark Side of the Womb: From Their Cradle to Your Grave edited by Kevin G. Bufton

Cruentus Libri Press will be reprinting my story Prickly in their anthology The Dark Side of the Womb: From Their Cradle to Your Grave edited by Kevin G. Bufton. Prickly was first published in Death, edited by Stuart Schiff for Playboy Paperbacks in the States.

The Ninth Black Book of Horror edited by Charles Black

Charles has just released images of the cover for The Ninth Black Book of Horror, which will be launched at FantasyCon later this month.

Again it's the work of Paul Mudie, who has done all of the Black Books covers.

 
Contents are:
The Anatomy Lesson - John Llewellyn Probert
The Mall - Craig Herbertson
Salvaje - Simon Bestwick
Pet - Gary Fry
Ashes to Ashes - David Williamson
The Apprentice - Anna Taborska
Life Expectancy - Sam Dawson
What's Behind You? - Paul Finch
Ben's Best Friend - Gary Power
The Things That Aren't There - Thana Niveau
Bit on the Side - Tom Johnstone
Indecent Behaviour - Marion Pitman
His Family - Kate Farrell
A Song, A Silence - John Forth
The Man Who Hated Waste - Marc Lyth
Swan Song - David A. Riley

Extreme Zombies edited by Paula Guran

Received my contributor's copies for Extreme Zombies, edited by Paula Guran for Prime Books, this week. Very impressed with the collection, and by those stories I've read in it so far. My own story, Romero's Children, was originally published in The Seventh Black Book of Horror, edited by Charles Black, and its nice to see it get a second airing, especially in such great company as George R. R. Martin, Joe Lansdale, and Brian Keene etc.




“Charlie’s Hole” by Jesse Bullington“At First Only Darkness” by Nancy A. Collins“The Blood Kiss” by Dennis Etchison“We Will Rebuild” by Cody Goodfellow “Dead Giveaway” by Brian Hodge “Zombies for Jesus” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman“An Unfortunate Incident at the Slaughterhouse” by Harper Hull“Captive Heart” by Brian Keene “Going Down” by Nancy Kilpatrick“On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks” by Joe R. Lansdale“Susan” by Robin D. Laws“Makak” by Edward Lee“The Traumatized Generation” by Murray Leeder“Meathouse Man” byGeorge R.R. Martin“Abed” by Elizabeth Massie“For the Good of All” by Yvonne Navarro “Home” by David Moody“Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy” by David J. Schow “Aftertaste” by John Shirley“Viva Las Vegas” by Thomas Roche“In Beauty, Like the Night” by Norman Partridge“Romero’s Children” by David A. Riley“Tomorrow’s Precious Lambs” by Monica Valentinelli“Provider” by Tim Waggoner “Chuy and the Fish” by David Wellington