  February 09, 2010, 07:47:17 PM
The British Fantasy Society Forum
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Fantasy / Other Media / Re: Black Static
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on: Today at 05:57:45 AM
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Started by Roy | Last post by Roy
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TTA were invited to be February's bloggers on the Incwriters website so we took up the challenge and the first attempt, a plog, is here.. Three more to come.
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Fantasy / Atomic Fez / John Llewellyn Probert's "Wicked Delights" Rates Publishers Weekly Star!
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on: Today at 03:11:48 AM
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Started by iamacanadian | Last post by iamacanadian
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Gracious! Will this praise for authors never cease? One would actually have to admit that the writers are as good in others’ eyes as they are in our own! Behold, another review from the pages of Publishers Weekly of a book being published by Atomic Fez, this one being Wicked Delights by John Llewellyn Probert!
* Wicked Delights John Llewellyn Probert. Atomic Fez ( www.atomicfez.com), $39.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-9811597-2-0 Prolific horror writer Probert ( The Faculty of Terror) offers up 18 gruesome, unsettling, and often unnervingly funny tales in his wide-ranging fifth short story collection. In “At Midnight, I Will Steal Your Soul,” a terrifying choir rehearsal in a haunted asylum leads an anxiety-plagued woman to a profound realization. “Two for Dinner” is a heart-pounding tribute to revenge horror films with a gleefully disturbing punch line. “The Mirror of Tears” is a haunting family drama about childhood terror and the sometimes damaging power of love. Vividly creepy images—the pages of a cookbook sucking on a child like leeches, an entire company being reduced to a sculpture of body parts as part of a corporate takeover—are all the more compelling when rendered in Probert’s breezy style. An illuminating and frequently hilarious afterword ends the collection on a gentle note. (Apr.) –Publishers Weekly, February 8th, 2010, Fiction Book Reviews, SF/Fantasy/Horror
To read the original, head to this spot in those intar-webs: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6717768.html?industryid=47159#SF/Fantasy/Horror. A bit of a long one, granted, but that's why it's a live link.
This follows some charmingly selected words about Mr. Probert's book from Britain's long-respected Master of Horror Ramsey Campbell:
The delightfully wicked Mr Probert wields his prose like a scalpel. His imagination is impressively warped and gruesome, and yet his tales have an unrepentantly English reticence. There’s dark humour here, and unexpected poignancy — indeed, the book is as full of surprises as the man himself. Horror is lucky to have him. –Ramsey Campbell (author of Just Behind You and Creatures of the Pool)
Goodness me. So much love for just one book. It makes you want to buy one for yourself, doesn't it? Here's a good link for you, then.
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Fantasy / Promote Your Projects / Re: Theaker's Quarterly Fiction
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on: February 08, 2010, 01:09:45 PM
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Started by Stephen Theaker | Last post by Stephen Theaker
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Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #32 is now available. This special issue of Theaker's Quarterly features the long-awaited conclusion of our very long-running serial, Newton Braddell's Inconclusive Researches into the Unknown. And on the flipside, a special treat, issue 10 of Pantechnicon! This issue of Pantechnicon includes Alex Davis (founder of Alt.Fiction and former BFS events organiser) on organising literary events and an interview with goremaster Herschell Gordon Lewis, as well as other stories and articles. The lovely TQF cover is by Howard Watts, the lovely Pantechnicon cover by Richard Dyke.
This is rather a sad issue for us. We’d hoped for many, many years that with issue 32 we would finally catch up with McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern – in terms of issue numbers if nothing else. It was a silly, arbitrary goal, but one that kept us going. It wasn’t to be: we’ve produced this issue a bit late, and McSweeney’s managed to sneak out an issue 33 just as the year turned.
The second reason for our sadness is that this issue concludes the saga of Newton Braddell, a virtual ever-present in the magazine since his first appearance in issue 8, back in 2005. Herein we have the final four episodes: the magazine will be forever lessened.
In the style of British comics of old, TQF has absorbed one of the final issues of Pantechnicon, a fellow zine that ran out of steam, as Caroline has announced in another thread. Though I am always glad to see our rivals tumble to their doom, I was more than happy to help them get their last issues out to the world.
You can download the issue as a free pdf here from us, or from Feedbooks in various ebook formats, or even buy a handsome print copy from Lulu.
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British Fantasy Society / BFS Events / Re: Open evening - York?
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on: February 08, 2010, 12:14:32 AM
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Started by CarolineC | Last post by iamacanadian
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I took it as a combination of 'disillusioned' and 'delusional', which is quite an in-describable emotional state, but whose experience is wide-spread among both members and former members of the BFS.
Perhaps you can get a Government Grant to study it for the NHS?
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