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May 17, 2017
Terracotta Army marches on Liverpool
The Terrracotta Army of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, is to return to the UK in 2018. Liverpool’s World Museum will play host from Feb-Oct 2018 and there’s more information here about the event and how to get tickets.
If you fancy a weekend of museums, then Liverpool has a long list of places to visit:
Lady Lever Art Gallery (on the Wirral)
May 9, 2017
May 7, 2017
Nightmare Magazine Issue 56
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I am absolutely delighted to be included in Issue 56 of John Joseph Adam’s Nightmare Magazine.
“Pearls” was first published in Issue 4 of Bourbon Penn (2012), and reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror:2013, Ed.Paula Guran, Prime Books.
Contents:
Fiction Kiss of the Mouthless Girl by Giovanni De Feo Author spotlight Pearls by Priya Sharma (available on 5/10) The Sound of by Charles Payseur (available on 5/17) The Vault of Heaven by Helen Marshall (available...<!-- [if IE 6]><!-- [if lte IE 7]>
May 3, 2017
Shadows & Tall Trees 7
Looking forward to this.
After a three-year hiatus, Shadows and Tall Trees is back! Undertow Books has been busy in the interim, publishing four collections of short stories (from Eric Schaller, D.P. Watt, Sunny Moraine and myself) three volumes of Year’s Best Weird Fiction, guest edited each time, and accumulating numerous awards and nominations. But three years has been a long time for readers of the genre eager for the kind of fiction Shadows and Tall Trees has come to champi...
March 31, 2017
March 21, 2017
Mad Hatters and March Hares cover art
Tor have revealed the cover art by Dave McKean for “Mad Hatters and March Hares”, which is out on 5th December 2017. I’m not sure if anybody out there actually reads this blog but I promise that I did NOT know who was doing the art when I blogged two days ago about the Folio edition of “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean.
This collection is edited by Ellen Datlow and readers can expect “An all original anthology of stories inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures...
March 20, 2017
Motherhood of the Monstrous
I am really chuffed to be next up on Jim Mcleod’s Ginger Nuts of Horror website. He’s taken the Women in Horror baton and is running on with it beyond February, so massive thanks to him.
Today is my turn to talk about a female writer that’s influenced me and one that I think people should be paying attention to now. Read it on Monsterhood of the Monstrous.
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Cover reveal for Naming The Bones
What a beauty by Laura Mauro. Can’t wait.
Is there anything more exciting than the moment your book becomes Really Real? Peter Frain has done an incredible job on the cover, which draws heavily on motifs from the story. And Ray Cluley has very kindly provided a highly complimentary cover quote.
“Naming The Bones” is due to be published in July by Dark Minds Press, and will be available in both paperback and ebook format.
March 19, 2017
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
[image error]The Folio Society have just published a beautiful edition of Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”, illustrated by the wonderful Dave McKean. A bit rich for my blood at £75, but it is a thing of beauty.
‘Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end’
from American Gods
Click to view slideshow.
March 18, 2017
Derek Walcott 23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017
Midsummer, Tobago
Broad sun-stoned beaches.
White heat.
A green river.
A bridge,
scorched yellow palms
from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.
Days I have held,
days I have lost,
days that outgrow, like daughters,
my harbouring arms.
Derek Walcott
