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

Volk, Stephen

Genre Fiction

Gray Fair Pr

1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent... A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he believes his stepfather really is a vampire...So begins the moving and evocative new novella by Stephen Volk, published by the British Fantasy Award-nominated Spectral Press in May 2013 to coincide with the centenary of the most celebrated and beloved of Hammer's stars, Peter Cushing.

Whitstable

Spectral Press

One evening in 1906 a chubby little boy of seven, son of a London greengrocer, is taken by his father to visit the local police station.  There he suddenly finds himself, inexplicably, locked up for a crime he hasn't committed - or has he? Blinking into sunlight, traumatized by his overnight stay, he is told by his father the next morning: "Now you know what happens to naughty little boys!" But the incident is the catalyst for a series of events that will scar, and create, the world's leading Master of Terror in the century to come...  The boy is Alfred Hitchcock.

Leytonstone

The Berlin Triangle is a mini-epic of historical and literary fiction! Written just one-half block from the Berlin Wall, in the British sector of West Berlin, it truthfully reveals many things the history books will never tell you! Holger Dallmann, an antique shop owner in East Berlin, makes a daring and ingenious escape to the West…to team up with Ariel Goldman from Florida, a history student who investigates history his way, when not playing classical guitar on West Berlin’s K’udam. Together, they investigate the hitherto-unknown historical affinity of Hitler and Tesla. Captured in a unique plot with many surprises, The Berlin Triangle leaves one spellbound! Lovers of the arts, history and philosophy, who desire to go where tourists never do, will appreciate this literary experience.

The Berlin Triangle

Publishamerica Inc

Terror Tales of the West Country

Grant, John Linwood

Chinn, Mike

Finch, Paul

Probert, John Llewellyn

Niveau, Thana

Tuttle, Lisa.

Singleton, Sarah

Howe, S L

Telos Publishing

The British Seaside - golden sands, toffee rock, amusement arcades. But also the ghosts of better days: phantom performers who if they can't get laughs will get screams; derelict fun-parks where maniacs lurk; hideous things washed in on bitter tides ... The death ships of Goodwin ... The killer clowns of Bognor ... The devil fish of Guernsey ... The Night Caller of St. Derfyn ... The Black Mass at North Berwick ... The grisly revenge at Brighton ... The tortured souls of Westingsea ... And many more chilling tales by Stephen Laws, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Volk, Sam Stone, Simon Kurt Unsworth and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre.

Terror Tales of the Seaside

Campbell, Ramsey

P & C Finch Ltd

"Weird Horror edited by Michael Kelly is a new, very promising twice-yearly horror magazine featuring fiction, articles, and reviews. The fiction in the first issue is excellent and I look forward to more." 
Ellen Datlow, editor of The Best Horror of the Year.\nWelcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!\nFICTION: Maria Abrams; Mary Berman; Rob Francis; Marc Joan; Alys Key; Catherine MacLeod; Evan James Sheldon; Kristina Ten; Stephen Volk.\nNON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas.\nCOVER ART: Nick Gucker\nINTERIOR ART: Wesley Edwards; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert\nDESIGN: Vince Haig; and Sam Cowan

Weird Horror #2

Berman, Mary

Ten, Kristina

Undertow Publications

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