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Baal the Necromancer to be reprinted in Schlock! Webzine

Pleased to receive an acceptance this morning from Gavin Chappell, who will be reprinting my early sword and sorcery story Baal the Necromancer in the December issue of Schlock! Webzine. This story was first published in Mythic magazine, now sadly defunct.

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 is now available as a paperback and kindle eBook

 

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 is now available as a paperback and kindle eBook.

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The stories and authors included are: 
TO WAKE THE HUNTERby Tais Teng &Jaap BoekesteinMOONFINGER ANDGIFT by Andrew DarlingtonQUALITY OFMERCY by Geoff HartMonica Goertzen HertleinTHE HERO’S PATH byJeffery A. Sergent  by Matt McHughWARDARKAND THE PIRATE KING by CraigHerbertsonR.K. OlsonScott McCloskeyTHE TROUPE by Andrew GrahamLAIR OF THE MUTANTKING by Adrian Cole

Floating Free to be published in the September issue of Schlock! Webzine

My science fantasy story Floating Free will be published in the September issue of Schlock! Webzine. 

I have a sword and sorcery story, Cyramon, scheduled to be published elsewhere during the summer months plus a collection of my Welgar the Northerner tales. More details of where and when these will be published will be revealed later. 

New stories to be published this year so far are:

The Triptych of Hell

An Oddity

In His Father's Footsteps

Floating Free

The Adventure of the Mouldy Book

Cyramon

The Mask of a Mad God

with the following reprints:

The Storyteller of Koss

Ossani the Healer and the Beautiful Homunculus

The Dark Priestdom

Welgar the Cursed

 

The Storyteller of Koss to be reprinted in Schlock! Webzine in October

My fantasy story The Storyteller of Koss, which introduced two of my recurring characters, Nadrain the Storyteller and Ossani the Healer, is to be reprinted in Schlock! Webzine in October.

This tale was first published in Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy in 2022.

My Story 'In His Father's Footsteps' is in this month's issue of Schlock! Webzine

My horror story - voodoo and zombies in northern England - is in this month's issue of Schlock! Webzine. My story is called In His Father's Footsteps. 

At the moment this can be read for free online here, though I would heartly recommend buying the magazine either as a kindle eBook or a paperback. It will definitely not break your pocket.

Latest advert for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8

 

This is the monochrome version. The lettering has been changed from black to white so it will stand out better.

 

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6

 

There was a great recent 5-star review on amazon for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6:

Phantasmagoria Magazine Hellraiser Special

I received my contributor's copy of the Phantasmagoria Magazine Hellraiser Special this morning. My only contribution is a critical review of Hellraiser: Revelations (2011), which must surely rank as the worst entry in the whole franchise - at least I definitely hope so! 

This is another beautufully produced issue, over 370 pages of stills, drawings, articles, interviews, reviews, etc., with entries by Trevor Kennedy, Peter Atkins, Adrian Baldwin, Simon Bamford, Clive Barker, Imogen Boorman, Tori Borne, Doug Bradley, David Brilliance, Mike Chinn, Malachy Coney, Con Connolly, Kenneth Cranham, Dean M. Drinkel, Kelly Dunn, Terry Farrell, Christopher Figg, John Gilbert, Christopher Gray, Anthony Hickox, Clare Higgins, Dave Jeffery, Carl R. Jennings, Stephen Jones, Paul Kane, Bob Keen, Ashley Laurence, Ivan McCann, Kim Newman, Barnaby Page, Evangelia Papanikou, Geoff Portass, Owen Quinn, Tony Randel, David A. Riley, Andrew Robinson, Helen Scott, Michael Marshall Smith, Jessica Stevens, Nicholas Vance, Nat Whiston, Cliff Wallace, Allison Weir, Sarah Graven Weir, Barbie Wilde, Ciaran Woods and Christopher Young, plus artists Clive Barker, Jonny Boyle, Randy Broecker, Dave Carson, Les Edwards, Graham Humphreys, Allen Koszowski, Ivan McCann, Jim Pitts, Steph Sciullo and Andrew Smith. 

Only £13.35 from amazon

Day Thirty-Nine of Showcasing books published by Parallel Universe Publications: Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 7

And here we are at day thirty-nine of showcasing books published by Parallel Universe Publications with Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 7, which we published last November.

This is the final showcasing. We have published other books (The Winter Hunt & Other Stories by Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis; England 'B': Ninety Minutes of Hell by Richard Stains (Mark Samuels); Will Anyone Figure That This Is A Repackaged First Collection by Johnny Mains; A Distasteful Horror Story by Johnny Mains; and A Little Light Screaming by Johnny Mains) but all of these have been discontinued and are out of print. 

In 2024 we will be publishing two further volumes of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy plus a trilogy of interlinked sword and sorcery collections by a veteran writer (further information to be issued later).  All five books will be illustrated by Jim Pitts. 

 Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 7 is available as a paperback and ebook (kindle)

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 The stories and authors included are: PITILESS by Stephen FrameUNHALLOWED TOMBS by Paul Batteiger
SORCERIES IN ASSABARR by Andrew Graham
SCHISM OF SPECTRES by Phil Emery
THE CROSSROADS IN THE FOREST by Gavin ChappellWISPS by Jason M WaltzDARK THE SKY, RADIANT THE ROAD by Jalyn Renae Fiske
THE BLOOD OF KHALID AL'TAHIR by Craig Comer
THE DARK KNIGHT OF THE SOUL by eric Ian SteelePROHAIRESIS by Jon ZarembaBLADES FOR A BOUNTY by Harry Elliott

The artwork, as always, is by Jim Pitts.

Day Thirty-Eight of Showcasing books published by Parallel Universe Publications: Lucilla - a novella by David A. Riley

 

Day thirty-eight of showcasing books published by Parallel Universe Publications and it's my own Lucilla - a novella, which was originally serialised in Bewildering Stories. 

 

Lucilla - a novella by David A. Riley is available in hardcover for £13.99, in paperback for £5.50, and in kindle for £2.99. The cover artwork is by Jim Pitts.

It was just another standard day at the Women’s Refuge until the arrival of Lucilla. Then Miranda’s world was never the same again.
Unaccountably influenced by what the girl needed, her job, her friendships, even freedom itself were of no importance. It was not until her niece’s life was at risk that Miranda knew she had to act.
But what could she do against someone who had such a tight, insidious grip on her?

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