Terry Lamsley's first collection of supernatural fiction, UNDER THE CRUST (1994), has been called by Ramsey Campbell 'a major debut in the field'. It was nominated for three World Fantasy Awards, with the title story winning Best Novella. In 1996 came CONFERENCE WITH THE DEAD, a second collection of tales which went on to win the International Horror Critics' Guild award for Best Collection. In both books, writes Campbell, 'Lamsley has established himself as an inheritor of all the qualities of classic English supernatural horror'. In DARK MATTERS, Terry Lamsley once again demonstrates his mastery of the supernatural form, creating a series of waking nightmares in which something OTHER intrudes into the lives of ordinary people. A father and son spending a day together find a dark underside to a seemingly bucolic village; a new neighbour is not nearly as friendly and harmless as he initially seems; a woman doing volunteer work finds herself caught between her odd partner and their even odder client, both of whom have certain needs which must be met; a pleasant walk through the fields leads to a disturbing discovery; and a quiet caravan holiday awakens something better left alone. Add to this a family pet undergoing a VERY strange transformation, an old school friend up to something nasty, a pub visit which goes horribly wrong, a woman who uses some rather unorthodox material in creating her sculptures, two ghosts who need help filling their empty hours, and a seemingly deserted beach which is not, unfortunately, QUITE as uninhabited as it appears, and you have vintage Terry Lamsley: disturbing, frightening, sometimes blackly humorous, never reassuring. In this world, things are seldom, if ever, as they seem, and those who enter it do so at their own risk.

Dark Matters

Literature & Fiction

Lamsley, Terry

Genre Fiction

Ash Tree Pr

Fourbodings

Morris, Mark

LEBBON, Tim

CLARK, SIMON

Cemetery Dance Pubns

Terry Lamsley has long been regarded as one of the most compelling and important authors in the horror and ghost fiction genres, but his work has been extremely difficult to find – until now. This collection brings together ten stories; all of them set in and around the author’s hometown of Derbyshire. In Terry’s fiction, the world we know and the world of something else exist side by side with only the thinnest of lines between them. The characters that inhabit Terry’s work often inadvertently discover that this line is all too easily crossed. Originally published in a 500 copy edition by Ash-Tree Press, Terry Lamsley's Conference with the Dead has long remained almost unobtainable until now. A nominee for the World Fantasy Award, and winner of the International Horror Guild Award, this chilling collection of ghost stories set in England has remained out of print for far too long.

Conference with the Dead

Night Shade

When Under the Crust' was self-published in 1993, few people outside the ghost story world in England heard about the book; but those who managed to obtain a copy were incredibly enthusiastic about this bright new talent in the field. Few people were more enthusiastic than Ramsey Campbell, who helped to bring it to the attention of the late Karl Edward Wagner, thus ensuring that it was nominated for an amazing three World Fantasy Awards, winning the award for Best Novella. Since then the book has been virtually unobtainable, and Ash-Tree Press is proud to be publishing it as a companion volume to 1996's Conference With the Dead'. As with the earlier book, there is a stunning wraparound dustjacket design by Douglas Walters, and the author has provided an introduction describing the book's genesis. An Ash-Tree Press Limited Edition.

Under the Crust: Supernatural Tales of Buxton

Ash-Tree Press

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