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A great 5-star review of The Return

A great 5-star review for my horror novel The Return, published by Blood Bound Books, has just been posted on Amazon.  "For me, this is David A Riley's best book to date. A tight, pulse-pounding thriller, mixing hard-boiled crime with horror - a new angle for the Mythos of Lovecraft - with pace, character and enough action to keep the pages turning. Well constructed, with a credible landscape and a bagful of grotesqueness. I hope this brings the author the recognition he deserves."  

Cover artwork for The Winter Hunt and Other Stories by Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis

Artwork: Joe YoungJoe Young has now revealed the cover artwork he has done for Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis's collection, The Winter Hunt and Other Stories, which is soon to be published by Parallel Universe Publications, wonderfully illustrating the title story.

With an introduction by Paul Finch, this 250-page collection will include:

The Winter Hunt
Gabriel Restrained
Family Ties
Lullaby
The Woman on the Stairs
Never Go Back
Damp
Last Day
The Worst Part
City of Woes
Death Knock
Playmates
De Profundis
Puca Muc
Shadows in Paint

A UK Chapter of the Horror Writers Association has just been formed

Thanks to the efforts of Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (who are the co-chair) a UK chapter of the Horror Writers Aassociation has now been formed, with its own website. HWAUK.

Current members include:

C.C. Adams
Richard Farren Barber
Carl Barker
Thomas Brand
Pat Cadigan
Ramsey Campbell
Catherine Cavendish
Charles Christian
Dorothy Davies
Jane Godman
Glynn James
Stephen Jones
Paul Kane
Mark Kirkbride
Frazer Lee
Tim Major
Marie O’Regan
Colum Sanson Regan
David A. Riley
Matt Shaw
Eric Ian Steele
Dave Watkins
Allan Welsh
Gina Wisker

An amazingly entertaining trailer for the equally amazing...

An amazingly entertaining trailer for the equally amazing Black Books of Horror edited by Charles Black.

England 'B': Ninety Minutes of Hell by Richard Staines now available to order online

England 'B': Ninety Minutes of Hell by the controversial Richard Staines is now available in paperback. An electronic version will be out within the next twenty-four hours. 
trade paperback:
Amazon.co.uk £8.00
Amazon.com   $12.00

What they are saying about Richard Staines: 

“Please get in all the Richard Staines horror books and chuck out all that other rubbish you have on the shelves.” The T.L.S. (Tooting Library Service), message left on their public noticeboard, 1975.

“Richard Staines is one of the most valued contributors to our magazine and we are glad to have him, despite the avalanche of protests. No animals were actually harmed in the photo-spread referred to.” Readers Wives editorial, 1977.

“Unfortunately, the jury have not been able to reach a verdict due to food poisoning, hit and run incidents, and the disappearance of close family members, but the great British public outside this courtroom will doubtless make up its own mind about your filthy, depraved, sickening and contemptible books. Case dismissed. You may leave the dock.” Lord Justice Haigh (deceased), summing up in the case of Regina vs Richard Staines, 1978.

“Many horror authors insult the intelligence of the people. Staines not only does this but is a bloody good read, too. He is the future of horror in the 1980s.” Anonymous letter to Colour Climax, 1979.

“We do not feel under any obligation to have to respond on a point by point basis to your repeated claims that the Nobel Prize committee for Literature have deliberately overlooked your horror fiction and cannot undertake to reply to any further letters on this matter.” Official letter from Lars Svenson (deceased), Nobel Prize Award Committee, Secretary, 1979.

“That snob and has-been Dennis Wheatley has never lived in a council flat on a Peckham estate with only cheap cans of lager, a black and white telly, and Yes and Genesis records to keep his muse lubricated. Dennis Wheatley's simply not as socially relevant in today's world as a “man-of-the-people” like Richard Staines. The truth is that Wheatley recognises all this and was just being a dick when he refused to write the introduction to Staines' book Psycho Flasher.” Anonymous letter to The International British Black Magic and Horror Club Newsletter # 8, 1975.

The Fragile Mask on his Face reprinted in Discoveries: Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy

I am really pleased that my story The Fragile Mask on his Face is to be reprinted in Discoveries: Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy in January 2016 by Dark Regions Press, edited by James Beach and Jason V. Brock. The Fragile Mask on his Face first appeared in Dark Discoveries # 15 in 2009 and is also included in my collection His Own Mad Demons .

Writers included in this anthology are: Paul Bens Jr., Ray Bradbury, Jason V Brock, Kealan Patrick Burke, Elizabeth Engstrom, Paul Finch, Bill Gauthier, Cody Goodfellow, Gerard Houarner, Richard Laymon, Tim Lebbon, John R. Little, Nick Mamatas, Brett McBean, Michael McBride, James Newman, William F. Nolan, Gene O’Neill, Weston Ochse, Wilum H. Pugmire, Stephen Mark Rainey, David A. Riley, Michelle Scalise, John Shirley, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jeffrey Thomas, Tim Waggoner, and Matthew Warner.

Dark Regions Press 

The Winter Hunt and Other Stories by Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis

As well as England "B": Ninety Minutes of Hell by Richard Staines, A Saucerful of Secrets by Andrew Darlington, and Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, I am delighted to be able to announce that a further collection of short stories is  scheduled for publication by Parallel Universe in 2016: The Winter Hunt and Other Stories by Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis.

The Worst of All Possible Places to be reprinted in Haunts of Horror

Dave Sutton's Shadow Publishing will be reprinting Houses on the Borderland, originally published by the BFS. The new anthology will be retitled Haunts of Horror and contains my novella, The Worst of All Possible Places. It will also have a new cover by Edward Miller.

Other authors in the anthology are Simon Bestwick, Allen Ashley, Paul Finch, Gary Fry and Samantha Lee.

Five-star amazon review of Kitchen Sink Gothic

One five-star review on amazon: "I just read the anthology "Kitchen Sink Gothic" and yes, I was blown away. As a title interpretation, I can respectfully call this Working Class Gothic, as it is a strange and Gothic journey into the lives of the ordinary folk of our world, and not the social elite that populate much of literature's history. And it is here that Kitchen Sink Gothic's charms lie. As a grab-bag of different tales, some surprise with their deviousness, and others shock with their arrogance, but all of them, each and every story in this clever and tasty collection, is sure to entertain. Heck, I think I'll pick it up and read it a second time now. Yes, it is that good."

Amazon

Dead Ronnie and I - my zombie story is today's offering on the Vault of Evil's Advent Calendar

Artwork: Chrissie DemantMy zombie story, Dead Ronnie and I, is today's offering on the Vault of Evil's Advent Calendar. I hope anyone who downloads it enjoys the ride! This story is published here for the first time.

Dead Ronnie and I