And It’s Here — Nightmare Abbey 1st Issue Arrives!

Thus says the Amazon blurb: The first big volume of NIGHTMARE ABBEY features 19 tales of terror by such masters as Ramsey Campbell, Steve Duffy, Lynda E. Rucker, David Surface, Helen Grant, Gregory L. Norris, Robert Bloch, Douglas Smith, James Dorr and others. Plus, articles on Jacques Tourneur’s classic horror film I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, and the iconic TV fright series KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER. Tons of photos and illustrations by Allen Koszowski. (From the creators of the popular BLACK INFINITY series.)

So the riddle was posted below January 30 and April 10: A first sale for me to start the new year, but details to be secret. Then, offering a hint, the story by me had to do with houses. Victorian houses.

Then May 17, just below, the solution was given: NIGHTMARE ABBEY, a new magazine from Tom English’s Dead Letter Press (publishers also of the darkish science fiction BLACK INFINITY, noted in many posts below) had just been published. And so today, Saturday, in the midst of an appropriately stormy afternoon, my authors copies have arrived!

What is there to say? See the Amazon blurb again, above. In much the same format as BLACK INFINITY, fiction, both classic and new, is offered, plus overview articles including for starts an appreciation of the mid-1970’s TV series, KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER (a quick look to check the DVD shelf — yep, my copy is still there). Of a size to compare with BLACK INFINITY too, the premiere issue starts with an interview of featured author Ramsey Campbell, followed by three short stories. Then sixteen more tales along with non-fiction, including — a tad more than two-thirds of the way through — a story by me.

But that you already knew (see post just below); the story, “Victorians,” reprinted from GOTHIC GHOSTS (Tor, 1997), is about an old Queen Anne house with its share of secrets, but also accompanying Victorian attitudes proving to be a not healthy mix. More to the point, for more information on NIGHTMARE ABBEY, and possible ordering, press here.