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Ormeshadow arrives in France

Je suis ravie que Ormeshadow soit maintenant disponible en français, aux éditions du Bélial’. Un immense merci aux éditeurs Olivier Girard et Erwann Perchoc, à la traductrice Anne-Sylvie Homassel et à l’illustrateur Aurélien Police, qui, par leur travail, ont permis à ce livre d’exister en France.

I’m delighted that the Ormeshadow is now available in French from Éditions du Bélial‘ . My huge thanks to editors Olivier Girard and Erwann Perchoc, translator Ann-Sylie Homassel, and cover ...

Beyond the Veil

 
It’s wonderful to be included in “Beyond the Veil”, edited by Mark Morris, and available from Flame Tree Press later this year.
 
 
Contents:
The God Bag by Christopher Golden
Caker’s Man by Matthew Holmes https://www.markmorrisfiction.com/
The Beechfield Miracles by Priya Sharma
Clockwork by Dan Coxon
Soapstone by Aliya Whiteley
The Dark Bit by Toby Litt
Provenance Pond by Josh Malerman
For All The Dead by Angeline B. Adams and Remco van Straten
The Girl In The Pool by Bracken ...

Guest Post: Penny Jones

Hi Priya, thanks for inviting me to talk about my novella, hopefully it won’t be too long now before we can actually meet up and chat in person.

Writing Matryoshka has been a strange experience, I was originally approached by Peter from Hersham Horror to write a novella to be released at Chillercon this year. Luckily by the time we heard Chillercon was being delayed until 2022 I had pretty much finished the book, otherwise I’m not sure how well I would have been able to motivate myself to contin...

Interview about Ormeshadow

Thanks to Mark West for an interviewing me about Ormeshadow over on his website. You can read the whole thing here.

Mark West lives in Northamptonshire with his wife Alison and their son Matthew. Since discovering the small press in 1998 he has published over eighty short stories, two novels, a novelette, a chapbook, two collections and six novellas (one of which, Drive, was nominated for a British Fantasy Award). He has more short stories forthcoming and is currently working on ...

Body Shocks

Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft’s Monsters) delivers world-class body horror in all its gruesome, psychological, and shocking glory. Discover—if you dare—shockingly twisted tales of the human body that make The Twilight Zone seem like a children’s show. In Body Shocks, you will find twenty-nine chilling tales from storytelling masters including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.

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The British Fantasy Awards: Ormeshadow

Thanks for to the British Fantasy Society for this huge honour. Thanks to all the people who voted for Ormeshadow and the jurors, Rachel Aitken, Abigail Baumbach, Steve Howarth, Gagandeep Kaur and Mark West

I am very proud to be nominated alongside the awesome writers that are Nathan Ballingrud, Gareth L. Powell, Rivers Solomon, JY Yang and Tade Thompson.

Ellen Datlow. What can I say? Thank you seems insufficient, but thank you.

Thanks to the team at Tor for taking a chance on this book and all ...

British Fantasy Awards 2020 announced

The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

WINNER: The Bone Ships , RJ Barker (Orbit) The Ten Thousand Doors of January , Alix E. Harrow (Orbit) The Migration , Helen Marshall (Titan) The Poison Song , Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

WINNER: The Reddening , Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited) The Plague Stones , James Brogden (Titan) The Institute , Stephen King (Hodder ...

I Spit Myself Out: Q&A with Tracy Fahey

I’m a big fan of Tracy Fahey’s work after seeing her read from her work at Edgelit (an annual celebration of horror, crime, fantasy and science-fiction in Derby, UK) and have this book on pre-order.

Tracy is an Irish writer of Gothic fiction. In 2017, her debut collection The Unheimlich Manoeuvre was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Her short fiction is published in over thirty American, British, Australian and Irish anthologies. She holds a PhD on the Gothic in visua...

WIHM: Lee Franklin

Lee Franklin kindly asked me to answer some questions for her blog as it’s Women in Horror Month (you can read those here). I agreed as long as she reciprocated.

Where are you from and what type of horror do you write?

LF: I am a West Australian from a beachside city called Rockingham.  For the last 4 years I have been living and loving life in North Yorkshire countryside.

I enjoy writing creature features, extreme horror and revenge. Most of my work is quite tight and fast paced with a lot of a...

Dark Stars

Dark Stars  is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today’s most noteworthy authors, with an introduction by bestselling author Josh Malerman and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell.

Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection features 12 original novelettes showcasing today’s top horror talent. Dark Stars features all-new terrifying stories from award-winning auth...