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The sleep of reason breeds monsters in this collection of terror tales. Some of the most frightening monsters are those that come in human form: The ex-undercover cop haunted by the dead child whose identity he stole... The abused ex-convent girl who develops an affinity with Medusa... The severed hand that forges literary works... The budding psychopath whose doppelganger takes the rap for his misdeeds... The man in the black suit with boiled jelly eyes who haunts the corridors of a council flat... These and other horrors stalk the ages, from eighteenth century West Africa to nineteen-fifties Brighton ... from the killing fields of the English Civil War to the playing fields of an exclusive school ... from the Munster plantation in sixteenth century Ireland to a sugar plantation in nineteen-thirties Haiti... "This is Tom Johnstone at his best, the master of the slow reveal..." - Colleen Anderson

Pauline E. Dungate's stories and poems mix horror and fantasy, from her UK hometown to the edge of the Andes, the Namibian desert, India and beyond. Harrowing, haunting and strange, this new collection stands out as a testament both to place and to imagination. It will make you think long after you've finished reading.

"The Walking Bird" is a collection of short poems prompted by ideas, places, relationships and humour, the prerequisite to everyday living. They can and do only reflect one persons life.The desire is that they will contribute to what we share in common. These short poems are my attempt at making simple that which, at times, seems complex.They have offered and given to me, a sense of perspective of the world around me.

Giants dwell the world over. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some with enormous bodies and some, occasionally, without. You may find them striding across the Salisbury Plain, wading through the oceans, or residing in the forests of a distant planet. The one thing they all have in common is that their size matters. The Gogamagog Circus is the latest collection from master raconteur Gary Kilworth. Here are thirteen gigantic short stories of our Brobdingnagian cousins, presented for your delectation, including eight brand new tales specially written for this collection. His characters and the sense of place he creates is immediate and strong (Sunday Times) Arguably the finest writer of short fiction today, in any genre (New Scientist) A British writer who shows great versatility and invention . . . Kilworth has a fertile, wide-ranging imagination (Library Journal)¿¿Kilworth is a master of his trade. (Punch Magazine) A convincing display of fine talent. (The Times)

Monsters are many things. They come in all forms, shapes and sizes: from to the tiny to the titanic; from amorphous blobs to many limbed (or tentacled) monstrosities; from supernatural demons to man-made terrors. They come from any place and time: from under the bed to the woodshed; from the icy wastes to the darkest jungles; from the depths of the ocean to outer space; from the past, the future, the now! Many things. Any things. In this anthology we present a range of creatures, from the oceans, from the ground, from the air. Contributors include Garry Kilworth, Steve Rasnic Tem, Sarah Ash, Adrian Cole, Marion Pitman, Ralph Robert Moore and others.

The Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2020 celebrates the careers more than 450 individuals who made significant contributions to the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres during their lifetimes. Compiled by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones, this first volume in a new annual series includes tributes to a trio of Hollywood legends . . . possibly the last star of silent pictures . . . the screen's best James Bond . . . a pair of British actresses who were both "Bond girls" and Avengers . . . two British actors who played-but did not voice-iconic Star Wars characters . . . an author who did for crustaceans what James Herbert did for rodents . . . and a forgotten pioneer of "sword and soul" fantasy . . . all illustrated with numerous photographs and associated images. This is not only a welcome reference volume, but also an informative and entertaining tribute to those we lost in 2020 and who left their mark on books, movies and popular culture in unusual and often fascinating ways.

Strange stories and weird tales and all of the creeping horrors in between. Horrors 2 features seventeen fabulous writers, including Sarah Ash, Paul Finch, John Grant, Nancy Kilpatrick, Garry Kilworth, Samantha Lee ... to lead you on a spine-tingling tour from seaside towns to grimy cities, to the lonely and secret places, from the fourteenth precinct to Namibia ... and so many places in between.

Twenty-five tales of horror and the weird, stories that encapsulate the dark, the desolate and the downright creepy. Stories that will send that quiver of anticipation and dread down your spine and stay with you long after the lights have gone out.Who is Len Binn, a comedian or something worse? What secrets are locked away in Le Trénébreuse? The deadline for what? Who are the little people, the garbage men, the peelers? What lies behind the masks? And what horrors are found down along the backroads?With stories by Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Stephen Laws, Samantha Lee, Stan Nicholls, Tony Richards and many, many others.

From the wastes of the sea to the shadows of our own cities, we are not alone. But what happens where the human world touches the domain of races ancient and alien?Museum curators, surveyors, police officers, archaeologists, mathematicians; from derelict buildings to country houses to the London Underground, another world is just a breath away, around the corner, watching and waiting for you to step into its power.The Private Life of Elder Things is a collection of new Lovecraftian fiction about confronting, discovering and living alongside the creatures of the Mythos.

Fourteen superb speculative stories by Anne Nicholls: "I love a good story: thrills, adventures, heroism, the writing of wrongs."From the introduction by Justina Robson: "Anne is at her finest when displaying and dissecting [the] viciously intertwined brambles of human making, showing how the dream of reality and its truth can be so far apart between one mind and another... All of these are beautifully written. Anne evokes setting and directs action with great skill so that the tales flow along at an effortless pace from daring beginning to satisfying end. I wish she would write more adventure stories!"

It can be boring waiting to become a ghost. New York has alligators in the sewers, but did you know that Birmingham has man-eating octopuses in its canals. What sacrifices were they prepared to offer to build the railway? What was it that crashed into the Land Rover's front bumper? How can she escape from captivity, from a room high in a tower block? What is it that his the non-existent hand touches? Discover these chilling horrors and more...

Mike Chinn takes us on a tour de force... A ring of external spotlights flared to life, revealing the floor of the Mariana Trench a few metres below us. The backwash filled the observation room with a cold grey light... As one, they gasped at the sight. I didn't blame them - even though I'd seen it dozens of times, it still caught the back of my throat.Donnie could feel himself beginning to shake. He clenched his fists, fighting the tremors. For a moment, he back-flashed to October last year: River Phoenix, on a Hollywood sidewalk, dying. No resurrection from the flames that time: no one was reviving dead movie stars.The storm bounced the Oji-Maru across the ocean like a toy boat. Sky and sea were black; the only light came from the ship's navigation lamps. Ishimaeru could barely make out the bows and harpoon gun. From somewhere he heard the sound of shattering glass. It reared out of the dark, vast and ... and wrong. Nothing but bones...And more ... eighteen stories that range from the depths of the Pacific, the cruel charms of Venice, the price of immortality, to the Appalachian Mountains...

Twenty-two essential essays on The Fantastic, including: In Smoke and Soot I Will Worship, The Ghosts of Sauk County, Portrait in Moonlight, A World of Great Majesty, A Collision of World-Views, A Torrent of Eldritch Terrors, The Edge of Running Water, A Universe Shot Through with Invisible Forces, After the Great Destruction, Against the Spirit, Ecstasy and Boundaries, Old England, New England, In Lonely Places, Story-Telling Wonder-Questing Mortal Me, The Edge of Shadows, The Ninefold Kingdom; and on writers Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Arthur Machen and many others...

Whatever it was, the object was too large for a bird, too slim for a boat, too streamlined for flotsam ... She pressed her face closer to the glass, fascinated and terrified at the same time ... My eyes could not block out the sight of the shapes, flopping, wading, barking as they inexorably massed in my direction ... the texture of their skins bore the suggestion of the final stages of gangrenous flesh ... The sound of battle clamoured through my brain. The field of Arderydd, soaked in blood; Liddel Water running with blood; Gwenddolau's fortress splattered with blood ... Perhaps it was not Myrddin's great age that sapped him of his powers. Perhaps it was the Romans and their priests ... The texture of Mars, the texture of its red facade, the subliminal texture of its history and mythology and the baggage of the many fictions. Mars was larger than itself ... and more ... eighteen stories of horror, fantasy and science fiction from award-winning editor and writer David A. Sutton.

Following the success of The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes, here is another helping of stories to stir your adventurous heart: stories in the tradition of the pulp heroes, of Doc Savage and The Green Hornet, of The Shadow and The Bat. Heroes and heroines and villainous villains. Fourteen exciting stories by Mike Resnick, Adrian Cole, William Meikle, Anne Nicholls, Bryn Fortey, Chico Kidd, Pauline E Dungate, Marion Pitman, Robert William Iveniuk, Stuart Young, Ian Hunter, Andrew Coulthard, Martin Gately and Arch Whitehouse.