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February 5, 2015
Their Cramped Dark World and Other Tales to be published by Hazardous Press
This is the cover by Luke Spooner for my next collection of stories from Hazardous Press, Their Cramped Dark World and Other Tales, which will include:Hoody (first published in When Graveyards Yawn, Crowswing Books, 2006)
A Bottle of Spirits (first published in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural 2, 1972)
No Sense in Being Hungry, She Thought (first published in Peeping Tom #20, 1996)
Now and Forever More (first published in The Second Black Book of Horror, 2008)
Romero's Children (first published in The Seventh Black Book of Horror, 2010)
Swan Song (first published in The Ninth Black Book of Horror, 2012)
The Farmhouse (first published in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural 1, 1971)
The Last Coach Trip (first published in The Eighth Black Book of Horror, 2011)
The Satyr's Head (first published in The Satyr's Head & Other Tales of Terror, 1975)
Their Cramped Dark World (first published in The Sixth Black Book of Horror, 2010)
To be published soon.
February 4, 2015
A Great New Review of Romero's Children
Just read a great review of my short story Romero's Children which was republished a couple of years ago in Paula Guran's Extreme Zombies.
Jaffalogue: review
"This gem of a short story is included in Extreme Zombies edited by Paula Guran. The author, with a background in Horror fiction, treats the readers to a unique take on zombies that veers toward the I am Legend or 28 Days Later part of the spectrum..."
Romero's Children is one of the stories included in my forthcoming collection from Hazardous Press, Their Dark Cramped World and Other Stories.
More Things That Go Bump in the Night
Douglas Draa and I are already thinking about doing a follow up volume of classic ghost stories to Things That Go Bump in the Night - More Things That Go Bump in the Night.
This is the proposed cover:
This is the proposed cover:
February 2, 2015
Kitchen Sink Gothic
Cover artwork: Joe YoungMany thanks to artist, Joe Young, for providing us with the cover artwork for Kitchen Sink Gothic. We will be contacting those who have submitted stories so far within the next seven days. And a reminder that we are still looking for stories for this anthology, which will be published by Parallel Universe Publications later this year. Parallel Universe Publications is now accepting submissions, either original or reprints, for an anthology of stories inspired by the classic British cinema/theatre phenomenon known as kitchen sink drama.
What Culture described it as: "A determination to examine the lives of the working and dispossessed classes in a non sentimental way...The movement began in the late 1950s and has survived to this day with the oeuvre of Ken Loach and films such as Nil By Mouth. Tackling thorny themes is a trademark of the Kitchen Sink drama. Abortion, divorce, homelessness, single motherhood, inter racial sex, poverty and homosexuality were all ripe topics to be examined. There was also the advent of The Angry Young Man – usually working class men railing against everyone and everything."
That fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia, describes it as: "a term coined to describe a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose 'heroes' usually could be described as angry young men. It used a style of social realism, which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in cramped rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to explore social issues and political controversies.
The films, plays and novels employing this style are set frequently in poorer industrial areas in the North of England, and use the rough-hewn speaking accents and slang heard in those regions. The film It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) is a precursor of the genre, and the John Osborne play Look Back in Anger (1956) is thought of as the first of the idiom.
The gritty love-triangle of Look Back in Anger, for example, takes place in a cramped, one-room flat in the English Midlands. The conventions of the genre have continued into the 2000s, finding expression in such television shows as Coronation Street and EastEnders .[1]
In art, "Kitchen Sink School" was a term used by critic David Sylvester to describe painters who depicted social realist-type scenes of domestic life.[2]"
We look forward to tales of darkness and horror, of the supernatural and the weird within the overall framework of the social realism of the kitchen sink drama.
Please send your submissions to rileybooks@ntlworld.com headed "Kitchen Sink Gothic" as an attachment in either doc or docx. We welcome either new stories or reprints. If a reprint please add details of previous publication. We have no firm maximum length though obviously the longer the story the better it will need to be to be accepted.
Payment will be £5 per thousand words and a contributor's copy of the book.
February 1, 2015
January 31, 2015
Things That Go Bump in the Night edited by Douglas Draa and David A. Riley
Things That Go Bump in the Night edited by Douglas Draa and David A. Riley is now available in trade paperback from Parallel Universe Publications. 365 pages long, this bumper volume contains 19 classic weird stories by Sir Hugh Clifford, Edward Lucas White, William Hope Hodgson, George Allan England, F. Marion Crawford, Frederick Marryat, E. F. Benson, W. C. Morrow, Amyas Northcote, M. P. Shiel, Lord Dunsany, Perceval Landon, Robert E. Howard, G. G. Pendarves, Henry Brereton Marriott Watson, Irvin S. Cobb, Huan Mee, Abraham Merritt, Nictzin Dyalhis, and Edith Wharton.Amazon.co.uk £7.99
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January 30, 2015
Updated Image of Books from Parallel Universe Publications
Things That Go Bump in the Night is being prepared for publication and should be out next week as a 367 page trade paperback containing nineteen stories.
January 26, 2015
Things That Go Bump in the Night
This is the proposed coverThe next book from Parallel Universe Publications will be a bumper anthology of classic weird stories, selected by Douglas Draa and David A. Riley called Things That Go Bump in the Night. Currently it stands at 350 pages.
January 23, 2015
Goblin Mire - temporary price reduction
For the next few weeks my fantasy novel Goblin Mire will be available for £6.99 in the UK and for $12 in the States. Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
