Gothic

Stephen Volk

Grafton Bks.

Dark Corners

BAFTA-winning writer Stephen Volk outraged the critics with his first screenplay, Ken Russell's Gothic, and shocked an unsuspecting nation with his notorious BBC TV Halloween hoax Ghostwatch. His new, gripping supernatural drama series Afterlife was called "Terrific television" (The Guardian) and "Unmissable" (Mail on Sunday). This first collection of his short fiction, like his best work for the screen, combines scenes of intense physical and psychological horror, with moments aching sadness and poignancy. Not without occasional stabs of black humour. Whether exploring traditional ghost stories reminiscent of the past, disturbing crimes of the present, or the wild imaginings of a far flung future, Volk delights in the dark corners of haunted houses and haunted people alike.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Gray Fair Pr

Crimewave 12: Hurts

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Christopher Priest

Ray Cluley

Joel Lane

Melanie Tem

Stephen Bacon

James, Cooper

Janice Law

Steven J. Dines

Danny Rhodes

Simon Avery

Antony Mann

Tim Lees

TTA Press

SYNOPSIS  An illusionist preparing his latest, most audacious trick . . . A movie fan hiding from a totalitarian regime . . . A pop singer created with the perfect ingredients for stardom . . . A folklorist determined to catch a supernatural entity on tape . . . A dead child appearing to her mother in the middle of a supermarket aisle . . . A man who breaks the ultimate taboo but does that make him a monster? . . .  In this rich and varied collection of Stephen Volk's best fiction to date, characters seek to be the people they need to be, jostled by hope, fears, responsibility, fate, and their own inner demons and desires. These tales of the lies and lives we live and the pasts we can't forget include the British Fantasy Award-winning novella, Newspaper Heart.

The Parts We Play

PS Publishing

ABOUT THIS BOOK  Stephen Volk has long been a master of the art of chilling the reader's blood as his latest piece, while modest in length, demonstrates. His continuing ability to hone his prose (so that not a word is wasted in delivering the impact on the reader) is undimmed. In fact, The Little Gift reads very much like one of the early stories in Herbert Van Thal's fondly remembered Pan Book of Horror Stories series in its quiet but powerful effect . . .   Barry Forshaw, CRIME TIME

The Little Gift

SYNOPSIS  In this latest edition of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find CUTTING-EDGE stories by such authors as ANGELA SLATTER, STEPHEN VOLK, RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON, DENNIS ETCHISON, LISA TUTTLE and STEVE RASNIC TEM, amongst many others, along with the usual OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR IN HORROR and NECROLOGY of those who have left us.   CONTENTS Introduction: Horror in 2016 The Editor Pale Tree House Angela Slatter The Light at the Centre Maura McHugh En Plein Air J.T. Glover India Blue Glen Hirshberg Walking with the Cross Peter Bell Bedtime Story Richard Christian Matheson The Symphony of the Normal Darren Speegle The Ballet of Dr. Caligari Reggie Oliver Who is This Who is Coming? Lynda E. Rucker The House That Moved Next Door Stephen Volk Princess Dennis Etchison A Home in the Sky Lisa Tuttle On These Blackened Shores of Time Brian Hodge The Enemy Within Steve Rasnic Tem The Court of Midnight Mark Samuels Far from Any Shore Caitlín R. Kiernan The Fig Garden Mark Valentine White Feathers Alison Littlewood Over to You Michael Marshall Smith In the Dark, Quiet Places Kristi DeMeester Mare s Nest Richard Gavin The Red Forest Angela Slatter Necrology: 2016 Stephen Jones & Kim Newman

Best New Horror #28 [Trade Paperback]

Stephen Jones

Steve Rasnic Tem

Dennis Etchison

Angela Slatter

Lisa Tuttle

SYNOPSIS Whitstable 1971 Peter Cushing, grief-stricken over the loss of his wife and soul-mate, is walking along a beach near his home. A little boy approaches him, taking him to be the famous vampire-hunter Van Helsing from the Hammer films, begs for his expert help . . . Leytonstone 1906 Young Alfred Hitchcock is taken by his father to visit the local police station. There he suddenly finds himself, inexplicably, locked up for a crime he knows nothing about the catalyst for a series of events that will scar, and create, the world's leading Master of Terror . . . Netherwood 1947 Best-selling black magic novelist Dennis Wheatley finds himself summoned mysteriously to the aid of Aleister Crowley mystic, reprobate, The Great Beast 666, and dubbed by the press The Wickedest Man in the World to help combat a force of genuine evil . . .

The Dark Masters Trilogy

ABOUT THE BOOK An educational joy to read, this man who knows his stuff, knows how to write and knows how to put together a well-thought-out, intelligent and incendiary article (Ginger Nuts of Horror) Blisteringly powerful...Volk draws on a dizzying number of references and shows admirable conceptual depth and density as well as a muscular and evocative style (SF Signal) Constantly insightful (Horror World Reviews) Thoughtful and eloquent (Matthew Fryer, Hellforge) Amusingly scathing...Frank, honest yet ultimately hopeful and considered (Dread Central) An insider s opinion...Volk certainly knows what he is talking about, with a career in the industry that has spanned two decades (Rue Morgue Magazine) Consistently entertaining (Dark Musings) Adds up to masterclass for horror writers and screenwriters. Definitely should be shared far and wide (Charles Prepolec, editor, Gaslight Grotesque, Gaslight Gothic, Beyond Rue Morgue)

Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings on Terror

DAVID PIRIE

ABOUT THE BOOK  Wandering lonely through the snow streets of New York I stumbled on a thrift store that sold postcards by the yard I bought a mile and shipped them home so I could read Ten thousand ten-word tragedies, the lives these strangers lead To remind myself the things I need   Inspired by Frank Turner and his songs especially that evocative verse from Mittens the editors were delighted to learn that he really did find that box of postcards in a New York thrift store. Frank was kind enough to send us the box, and from it we chose a series of postcards and forwarded them to the writers in this book. Gaining inspiration from the postcards and their 'ten word tragedies', the contributors wrote an amazingly eclectic selection of tales moving, funny, horrific, bizarre, and delightful, these are the lives these strangers lead.   CONTENTS  I Am Here Michael Marshall Smith London Safe Stuart Neville The War Within Kelley Armstrong The New Boyfriend Scott Smith From the Living Room of Cottage 6 Josh Malerman Beat the Card Home Stephen Volk She Forgot The All, She Could Not Remember Anything But Longing Kelly Braffet Give Me Two Michael Koryta The Letter from Elsie Matt Bechtel I Hate to Leave This Delilah S. Dawson Howard Sturgis and the Letters and the Van and What He Found When He Went Back to His House Paul Tremblay The House in My Heart Rachel Autumn Deering Fort Lauderdale Rio Youers Broken For You Alyson Noel The Lions Keith Buckley The Same as the Air Alison Littlewood Lowcountry Tidings Dan Chaon Taproot Mike Carey Royal Gorge Frank Turner

Ten-Word Tragedies

Kelley Armstrong

Mike Carey

Paul Tremblay

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Alyson Noël

Tim Lebbon

Frank Turner

Josh Malerman

Alison Littlewood

Rio Youers

Dan Chaon

Kelly Braffet

Christophen Golden

Rachel Autumn Deering

RETURN IF YOU DARE TO THE HEYDAY OF HORROR . . . 
 To the era of British cinema when the bywords for terror and the celluloid supernatural were Hammer Films, Amicus Productions, and Blythewood the Studio of Screams (as the News of the World dubbed it in 1965). 
 Here, as never permitted before, are the authorised novelizations of four Blythewood classic horror films. Forgotten by some. Unforgettable to many. To chill your spine from the printed page as they once did from the silver screen . . . 
 SWORD OF THE DEMON Death and disaster stalk the members of a British expedition after they plunder the tomb of a legendary Chinese warlord, for among the artefacts they ship back to London is a sword rumoured to contain the spirit of a vengeful demon . . . 
 THE DEVIL S CIRCUS Le Circus Furneaux brings screams of joy wherever they travel, but there are other screams as well. Each searching for a missing brother, Yvette and Hugo will find those screams beneath the big top of The Devil s Circus! . . . 
 CASTLE OF THE LOST After surviving the war, Jack and his wife and child return to his family estate, Grayland Castle, the site of a scandal involving ritual sex and murder. That was all in the past, and now they're here to make the place their home. But in such places, the past does not wish to remain hidden. And in the castle's basements, shadows stir . . . 
 THE SQUEAMISH In the swinging sixties, Geraldine Copper works for the EBFC, better known as the censor, in London s Soho. When she clashes with a firebrand director, Marcus Rand, over cuts to his violent and sexually-charged film The Mortal Sins of Dracula, it sets in train a series of ghastly events as the film itself seems to haunt her . . . 
 BUT WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BLYTHEWOOD STUDIOS? Reclusive former movie producer Lawrence Blythewood agrees to surreptitiously meet with a college professor in rural Québec. Insisting upon the utmost security, he comes out of exile for just 24 hours. Long enough to discuss his cinematic legacy and the four films above but harbouring his own dark agenda . . .

Studio of Screams

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN

Stephen R. Bissette

Mark, Morris

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