David A. Riley's Blog, page 30

Fish Eye reprinted in Lovecraftiana Candlemas Issue

My first story published in 2022 is a reprint of Fish Eye in Lovecraftiana Magazine's Candlemas issue, with a fabulous cover by James Toeken.

Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography by R. B. Russell

Just received this great, heavy tome in the post today: Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography by R. B. Russell, published by Tartarus Press. Should provide many hours of fascinating reading.

Winter on Aubarch 6 reprinted in The Martian Wave - contributor's copy received today

On the last day on 2021 I received my contributor's copy of the The Martian Wave for October 2021, containing my science fiction story Winter on Aubarch 6.  

This story first appeared in Fear magazine #11 in 1989.

 

 

How Weird Tales reviewed my novel The Return seven years ago

Weird Tales review of The Return

Seven years ago my Lovecraftian crime noir horror novel The Return received the above review on the Weird Tales website.

"David A. Riley's "The Return" is an amazing read. Do you like gritty noir? Brit Horror? Masculine (but not macho) protagonists? Eldritch Horror in bleak industrial slums? "The Long Good Friday" meets "the Mythos"? The writing is dense and sleek. Never boring enthralling page turners. Do you like to read just a few more pages even though you need to sleep? Then this is THE BOOK!

THIS IS ONE FINE HORROR NOVEL!" 
 

A Grim Gods Revenge: Dark Tales of Fantasy & Horror reduced to £6/$7.94 till January 1st

A Grim God's Revenge: Dark Tales of Fantasy & Horror by David A. Riley is now available in paperback and kindle.We have reduced the price of the paperback from £11.99 to £6.00/$7.94 till the 1st January 2022.

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Artwork: Jim Pitts
 

The short story collection includes fourteen dark tales of fantasy and horror ranging from 1971 to 2020.

Dead Ronnie and I was first published in Sanitarium issue 44, 2016
Corpse-Maker was first published in Weird Window issue 2, 1971
The Urn was first published in Whispers issue 1, 1972
Gwargens was first published in Beyond issue 3, 1995
Retribution was first published in Peeping Tom issue 3, 1991
The Bequest was first published in Dark Horizons, 2008
They Pissed on My Sofa was first published in Malicious Deviance, 2011
Old Grudge Ender was first published in The Screaming Book of Horror, 2012
A Girl, a Toad and a Cask was first published in The Unspoken, 2013
Scrap was first published in Dark Visions 1, 2013
Lem was first published in The Eleventh Black Book of Horror, 2015
A Grim God’s Revenge was first published in Mythic issue 4, 2017
Grudge End Cloggers was first published in Scare Me, 2020
Hanuman was first published in Phantasmagoria issue 16, 2020

 

The Storyteller of Koss has been accepted for publication in Summer of Sci-fi & Fantasy anthology

Just had another fantasy story - it's not quite swords & sorcery as there are no swords involved - accepted for publication next year. The Storyteller of Koss will appear in Summer of Sci-fi & Fantasy anthology, due on June 1st, 2022 from Cloaked Press in the United States.The Storyteller of Koss is a sort of sequel to Baal the Necromancer which appeared in the last issue of Mythic magazine.

The God in the Keep is available in the November issue of Swords and Sorcery Magazine

My second swords and sorcery story to be published in the last few months, The God in the Keep, is now available to read online for free in Swords and Sorcery Magazine . 

My earlier story is Baal the Necromancer which appeared in the latest issue of Mythic magazine. 

Two Independent Publishers Whose Anthologies I Had Stories In Last Year Fold

It looks as though two of the independent publishers whose anthologies I had stories in last year have folded.

The first is Esskaye Books. Grudge End Cloggers was included in their anthology Scare Me edited by M. Leon Smith. This wasn't a bad book, though the typesetting could have been improved a lot. Double spacing should be reserved for manuscripts, not printed paperbacks. 

The other was Terror Tract, which during its brief lifetime brought out quite a few titles and looked as if it had big ambitions. But for all of that I never even saw when the press folded, though. I had a story reprinted in their "Humorous Horror Anthology" Jester of Hearts. As well as Corpse-Maker (originally published in Dave Sutton's Weird Window fanzine in 1971), this book included Ramsey Campbell's Seeing the World. 

I am always sorry when an independent publisher closes down, especially when it happens as abruptly as it did with these. Both seemed to have had great potential for the future.

Fortunately for me the stories published by them have recently been reprinted by my own Parallel Universe Publications imprint in A Grim God's Revenge: Dark Tales of Fantasy & Horror.  

Gruesome Grotesques #6 is now available

Available now through amazon and elsewhere, Gruesome Grotesques #6 Carnival of Freaks includes some great authors, such as Ramsey Campbell, Adrian Cole, Mike Chinn, Samantha Lee etc. It also includes my own short story Three Eyed Jack which I am pleased to see illustrated by Jim Pitts.

Ghosts of the Chit-Chat - Stories by M. R. James and Others Performed by Robert Lloyd Parry

I was really pleased to receive in the post a DVD of Ghosts of the Chit-Chat performed by the marvellous Robert Lloyd Parry. The James stories are Canon Alberic's Scrapbook and Lost Hearts. The other stories are Basil Netherby by A. C. Benson, The Dean's Story by R. Carr Bosanquet, and Useless Knowledge by M. R. James.

With the DVD came the postcards shown here, together with a folded booklet. 

I'm looking forward to watching this very soon.