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The Asian Writer

Thanks to both Penny Jones for reviewing “All the Fabulous Beasts”, and Farhana Shaikh for including the review on her website, The Asian Writer.

The strength of Priya’s writing and the beauty of the tales transgresses all boundaries, she manages to convey a depth of emotion and understanding for her characters no matter how flawed they may be and it’s that understanding of humanity and all its intrinsic strengths and flaws which make this such a well rounded book. Because it isn’t ju...

Nightmare Magazine Issue 69

[image error]Thanks to John Joseph Adams for including a reprint of “The Anatomist’s Mnemonic” in the latest issue of Nightmare. This story originally appeared in Black Static (Issue 32).

In this issue:

Original fiction – “Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep” by Nibedita Sen and “Red Rain” by Adam-Troy Castro

Reprints- “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” by Seth Fried and “The Anatomist’s Mnemonic” by Priya Sharma

Column- The H Word: Body Horror-What’s Really Under Your Skin?

Also- author spotlights...

2018 Summer Reading Recommendations from The Unbound Writers

A huge thanks to The Unbound Writers for listing my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts”, on their Summer Reading List.

I particularly like Gemma Webster’s suggestions about what to do while you’re reading it…

Their list includes a couples of books that are already on my summer holiday book pile, including “Circe” by Madeline Miller and “Annihilation” by Jeff VanderMeer.

Check out the article here.

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Gothic Manchester Festival 1st-5th August 2018

The 6th annual Gothic Manchester Festival is themed on “Gothic Hybridities”.

We are here this year to explore how the Gothic stitches together a dark and delicious patchwork of different influences, aesthetics and emotions into a shadowy, grotesque and strangely beautiful edifice.

The Gothic throws its pale arms out to encompass the monstrous, the fantastical, the gory and the glorious. The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies is here to bring you all this, and more. Please join as we celeb...

News from Nowhere

A big thanks to the team at News from Nowhere on Bold Street, Liverpool for stocking a few copies of All the Fabulous Beasts.

News from Nowhere is a non-profit radical and community bookshop that was established in 1974 and is run collectively by a women workers’ co-operative. Next door to the shop is Liver House, the home of Jeannie Mole.

 

Guest Post: The Devil’s In The Detail by Julie Travis

“Paps! Paps in the landscape!”

Many years ago I interviewed Cheryl Straffon, a Cornish witch, and she was describing the female qualities of the two hills near Land’s End. As a lifelong acolyte of folklore, magick and the supernatural, it felt like an entirely natural thing to be discussing. And it gave a sensual new angle to my conviction that the landscape is a living thing.

I’ve often seen folklore described as something intrinsically linked to the British rural landscape of times gone by....

Green Garden by Laura Mvula

The Dark Issue 37

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Thanks to Sean Wallace for including me in Issue 37 of The Dark with a reprint of “The Crow Palace”.

This story originally appeared in “Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales”, edited by Ellen Datlow.

“Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints.”

 

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“In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same”...

The Christian Science Monitor

Thanks to Donna Bryson for mentioning me in her article for The Christian Science Monitor : After decades of dwarfs and elves, writers of color redefine fantasy.

“For those who think the genre is all faraway galaxies or pyrotechnic wizardry, consider English writer Priya Sharma’s “Rag and Bone,” set in a not-so-distant, poignantly plausible, dystopian Liverpool. Dr. Sharma portrays a brutal city state where it’s a capital offense to agitate for minimum wages, workplace safety, an...

This is Horror

Without a doubt, one of the highlights of 2018 and it will take a strong work to surpass the quality of this latest Undertow Publications release. Connected not just by themes of human-creature melding, but also by an adherence to clear and poetic writing, deeply affecting emotion, All the Fabulous Beasts deserves to be read far and wide. It’s a book which ought to be on every horror fan’s shelf; not just those who love dark fiction with literary aspirations, but also those who like their hor...