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The Toronto Star

Undertow Publications is based in Toronto, Canada and the city’s newspaper, The Toronto Star, have kindly included “All the Fabulous Beasts” in its horror fiction review.

UK author Priya Sharma has been quietly publishing her ornate but ultimately unclassifiable stories in online journals and hard-to-find print anthologies for over a decade. Luckily for those readers who don’t haunt specialty bookstores and the outer reaches of the Internet, Sharma’s stories have been collected in...

The Pan Review

[image error]The Pan Review is the blog of Mark Andresen. In Pan Review Of The Arts – No. 7, Mark  includes a Q&A with Steve Rasnic Tem, an opinion piece on women artists in dance music and how they’re disadvantaged by deals between DJ-Producers and music platforms, and a review of “All The Fabulous Beasts”.

My thanks to Mark for this.

 

Black Static Issue 63

[image error]1st May 2018 was the official release date of  “All the Fabulous Beasts”.

Andy Cox has kindly included me the lastest issue of Black Static with a review of the collection and an interview, both by Peter Tennant.

“The May-June issue contains new horror fiction by Steven J. Dines (novella), Kristi DeMeester, J.S. Breukelaar, Matt Thompson, and Nicholas Kaufmann. The cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Vincent Sammy, and Richard Wagner. Regular fea...

Ginger Nuts of Horror Review of “All The Fabulous Beasts”

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I feel very honoured by this review by one of the coolest women in horror, Laura Mauro.  Thanks to her and Jim Mcleod of Ginger Nuts of Horror.

Read it here.

 

Publishers Weekly reviews “All The Fabulous Beasts”

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Sharma’s tales are at their strongest and most poignant when they concern love, be it consuming, denied, or realized late. Their magic is usually one surreal piece fitted tightly into a puzzle of normalcy, that often roars up by the end to reshape everything. Sharma leaves tantalizing clues throughout her stories that make the conclusions surprising yet satisfying. Fantasy fans who want their stories deep and intense will consider this a fabulous debut. Read full Publishers Weekly review.

Fabulous Beasts in Cross Stitch

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I went out in the rain to collect a parcel from the Post Office depot this morning. It contained an unexpected gift from fellow writer and friend Penny Jones. It’s a quote from “Fabulous Beasts”.

Thank you, Penny Jones. My eyeliner is all over my face now, but not because of the rain.

 

 

 

The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey

The wonderful British Fantasy Award nominated debut collection by Tracy Fahey has been re-released by The Sinister Horror Company.

It’s a very assured first collection. It’s been described as domestic horror but it’s anything but mundane. Even the stories are set abroad have a very claustrophobic quality. Large events that affect whole communities are focused through the microscope of personal interactions, which are beautifully observed. Although there are twists, Tracy Fahey...

Kindle Edition of “All the Fabulous Beasts”

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It’s arrived on Kindle.

Amazon UK 

Amazon US

Amazon India

Interzone Review of Mad Hatters and March Hares

Thanks to Andy Hedgecock for his review of “Mad Hatters and March Hares” (edited by Ellen Datlow) in Interzone 274.

“Ellen Datlow will have soon edited 100 anthologies. An impressive achievement in itself, but one accentuated by the positive critical reception those books have elicited. In her introduction to “Mad Hatters and  March Hares”, Datlow reveals her lifelong fascination with Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and the enduring pleasure she has taken in the art and films they have inspired....

A Pick of Six

Aliya Whiteley Alert!

Aliya Whiteley

There are six covers by Darren Hopes in the Eden Book Society project, and they make an eerie and stylish collection. I helped to prepare* one of the novellas in this series (although I’m not allowed to say which one) and I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on the entire set.

The other authors involved are Gary Budden, Alison Moore, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jenn Ashworth and Richard V Hirst, and Sam Mills, so that should make for a very interestin...