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Bite Sized Horror is now out

The Obverse Books anthology, Bite Sized Horror edited by Johnny Mains is now out. There's also a really good review of it by Fantasy Book Critic.

And if that doesn't bite you to buy a copy...

Paul Mudie nominated for Best Artist - BFS Awards

Paul Mudie, who has done every cover for the Black Books of Horror has reached the shortlist for the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist. Congratulations Paul!

These are some of his covers:

Back From The Dead nominated for BFS Award

Back From The Dead, edited by Johnny Mains and published by Noose & Gibbet Press, has been nominated for the British Fantasy Society award for Best Anthology. The short list includes:

Back From The Dead: The Legacy Of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories – Johnny Mains – Noose & Gibbet
End of the Line, The – Jonathan Oliver – Solaris
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 21, The – Stephen Jones – Robinson & Constable
Never Again – Allyson Bird & Joel Lane – Gray Friar
Zombie Apocalypse! – Stephen Jones – Robinson & Constable

Having a story in Back From The Dead I am obviously hoping that this eventually clinches the award. Well done Johnny!

Bite Sized Horror edited by Johnny Mains

Another excellent review of this anthology prior to publication on The Black Abyss.

The Eighth Black Book of Horror

Just got the proof copy of my story in The Eighth Black Book of Horror off Charles Black for me to check through. Not sure yet when this anthology will appear, but it must be imminent now. My story is called The Last Coach Trip.

This is the cover without the title heading, etc:

Bit Sized Horror

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This looks like being the final cover for Bite Sized Horror , which is due out at the end of this month. I am looking forward to this, as I believe my story in it is one of the best I have ever written.

Willy by Robert Dunbar

[image error] I'm currently reading a brand new book courtesy of being one of the jurists for the HWA's Stoker Award for best novel. This one is Willy by Robert Dunbar, published by Uninvited Books. A strange, dark novel set in a school, most of whose pupils are boarders and all of whom seem oddly damaged. Mind you, most of the staff seem oddly damaged too.

The writing is vaguely reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye, though it's not a pastiche or anything like that. It's a real-time journal kept by one of the damaged pupils, whose roommate is a charismatic but possibly doomed young teenager called Willy.

This took me a short while to get into, possibly because of the way it's written, but it's sucked me in now and, though nothing overtly horrifying has happened yet, there are enough premonitions that things are not going to turn out well...

Birthdays: Sir Christopher Lee and the late Vincent Price

It would have been Vincent Price's 100th birthday today. As it is, today sees Sir Christopher Lee reach 89.

Coincidentally, two days ago it was also the anniversary of Peter Cushing's birth.

BFS Journal

This is the cover for the next issue of the BFS Journal I think this is my favourire cover for it so far.

Another Bite Sized Horror review

Yet another overall good review for Bite Sized Horror, this time from The Stars at Noonday.