Nightmare Abbey Here at New Week’s Start

So, devil begone, my own copy arrived this afternoon, 146 pages containing fourteen stories in all as well as features, dated Summer-Fall 2023. My copy of what? Of the just-published NIGHTMARE ABBEY (see below, May 30, et al.).

Or as Editor Tom English had said on Facebook: ­NIGHTMARE ABBEY 3 is here at last. And don’t think birthing the little monster was not without its share of pain and sorrow. (I have new stretch marks on my fevered brow.) Don’t miss this volume’s cutting-edge terror tales by Steve Duffy, Helen Grant, David Surface, Ian Rogers, Ray Cluley, Gary Fry, Gregory L. Norris, James Dorr, and Darrell Schweitzer; plus Horror Delve by Matt Cowan, and John Llewellyn Probert’s Horror Flying High: Revisiting NIGHT OF THE EAGLE (aka BURN, WITCH, BURN). Copiously illustrated with scores of photos and the fabulous art of Allen Koszowski. Grab this book asap or I’ll fly to your hovel and haunt the devil out of you.

And so it goes. My story is second in the line-up. “The Great Man,” a saga of a bygone era (to quote my own blurb, cf. April 25), originally published in THE STRAND MAGAZINE for Spring-Summer 1999, of post-French Revolutionary times, and soldiers, and guillotines . . . along with some medical speculation of the day and a sort of steampunky final scene. Plus dark fantasy, weirdness — that goes with the course. Some politics of the time is there too, with off-stage nods from notables such as Charlotte Corday, Lavoisier, and even Napoleon (one’s tempted to say, “to add to the madness”).

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