“Near exemplary selection of stories.” Opening story ‘On the Tour’, by Godfather of the UK horror scene Ramsey Campbell, is the perfect way to start the collection and lays down a significant marker in terms of quality. A down on his luck man, who had been a Beatles-era musician, becomes obsessed with the hope that …
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“A brutal and uncompromising novel.” On the dedication page for Revival Stephen King lists a selection of genre luminaries that includes the likes of August Derleth, Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft and of particular note Arthur Machen, who is the only author to have a specific text mentioned; his 1894 short novel The Great God Pan, …
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Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory ‘Themes and ideas linger long in the mind.’ Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it’s a tooth from the boy Edgar Allan Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store …
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Erik Hofstatter is a dark fiction writer, who dwells in a beauteous and serenading Garden of England, where he can be frequently encountered consuming reckless amounts of mead and tyrannizing local peasantry. At a young age, he built a Viking longship and journeyed myriad sea miles away from native land in search of plunder and …
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