Best Horror of the Year Vol.4

Well, I didn't get in, but at least I made it into the top 50 honourable mentions!
Congratulations to all who did make the final TOC, especially Simon Bestwick and Ali Littlewood. I only mildly hate you...

The Pest House; Black Static #28

Wow, will you look at that? Amazing artwork by Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Hope folks think that my story does it justice!
Black Static #28, available to buy from April here.

Interzone #238

Yay, my first every sci-fi sale! Never thought I'd get into Interzone, so very pleased (if a bit late in saying so...!)
Behold (with great artwork, as always; this time by David Gentry):


Buy it here

Black Static #26

Here's a sneaky peek at the artwork for my latest short, The Monster of Venice, to appear in the next issue of Black Static: #26, out in December.
So pretty, I had to post it!
Buy it here

Bram Stoker Award Recommendation!!

A very excited me recently received an email from Sarah Langan(!), telling me that my short story, Electric Dreams, had been recommended for a Stoker. Cue much excitement, and "there's no point getting excited yet"s...
Anyway, should anyone be interested in reading Electric Dreams, it's available in its entirety here.
Fingers crossed for the ballot, and then the one after that etc...

Scenes from the Second Storey

11th of Novemeber sees the release of the electronic version of Scenes from the Second Storey - International Edition.
Morrigan Books has decided to keep the sale price the same until the 12th November, so get in quick as you only have two days left!
Link here
My short, The Blind Man, is one of my favourites, and Morrigan Books always gives good anthology!

Terror Tales of the Lake District

Just arrived back from a very sunny south of France and was cheered up by news that the horror anthology, Terror Tales of the Lake District is now available for pre-order from Gray Friar Press.

Here, for your interest, is the official back-cover blurb:

The Lake District – land of mountains and megaliths, night-black lakes and fathomless woods filled with spectral mist …

The eerie entity on Striding Edge
The living corpse of Croglin
The demented clown of Muncaster
The winged horror of Langdale
The drowned bride of Windermere
The hairy brute of Beetham
The nightmares on Burnmoor

And many more chilling tales by Ramsey Campbell, Adam Nevill, Simon Clark, Peter Crowther, Reggie Oliver, Gary McMahon and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre.

The book contains ten works of original horror fiction set in the Lake District, and three classic reprints. It also features numerous anecdotal tales concerning supposedly true incidents of Lakeland terror.

For more info., including details of future plans for the series, check out editor Paul Finch's website.

I really enjoyed writing my contribution for this (The Claife Crier), although I enjoyed finishing it more; sometimes anthology themes present you with more of a challenge than others, and this was definitely one of them! But Paul was a dream to work with, and I ended up being very happy with the result, as well as the pretty impressive company. Of course, I generally recommend every antho I appear in (well, duh), but I know this is one I would have loved regardless. Buy it!