The British Fantasy Society

A Small Collection of Mediocre Stories

By Simon Logan

Illustrated by Mitch Phillips

Stories: They Keep Her in the Attic, The Old Ones Have Ways, Like Clockwork, Two.Point.Four, The Pulsating Wall, The Siamese Bitch Hole, The Traffic Island of Dr. Moreau.

The fiction of Simon Logan is bizarre in the extreme, almost seeming to purposely defy categorization. His imagination conjures haunting scenes of twisted nightmare and just about anything seems possible. Logan's fiction is modern and disturbing.

Price:- £8.00

Nightmares From Infinity

By Steve Lines

Thrill to tales of the incredible and the impossible, the unbelievable and the uncanny, the dead and the deathless, the unloved and the unwanted, the mundane and the miraculous.

From the darkest and most primal recesses of rock ‘n’ roll‘s past, from the psychotronic twilight world of trash B-culture and from the strange worlds of nightmare horror, dark fantasy and pulp science fiction, deranged musician Steve Lines has created his own warped world of musical mayhem!!!

Price:- £8.00

Touching The Flame

By Paul Kane

Spanning the whole of his career so far, Touching the Flame is a worthy follow-up to Paul Kane‘s Alone (In the Dark) - the fastest-selling BJM title of 2001. Eighteen stories, including two from the Controllers mythos ‘Astral’ and ‘Eye of the Beholder’, plus the prize winning ‘Blackout’, ‘The Torturer’, ‘The Face of Death’, ‘Visiting Hour’, ‘Prey’ and his powerful tale ‘The Disease’.

‘Paul Kane‘s world is a world of horror and wonder. A world of monstrous things beautifully carved in words by one hell of a talented and visionary writer‘ - From the introduction by 2002‘s double British Fantasy Award-winner and author of Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark.

Price:- UK £8.99/US $13.99
ISBN: 0-9540877-4-7

Shadow Writers Volume 1

Edited by Paul Kane

Culled from the pages of horror author Paul Kane‘s website (www.shadow-writer.co.uk) come the first offerings of his ‘Shadow Writers’. Twelve months, twelve stories to chill and terrify - featuring: John B. Ford, Alison L.R. Davies, Mark West, Paul Melniczek, Hertzan Chimera, Peggy J. Shumate, Lisa Negus, Derek M. Fox, Robert Rowntree, Shannon Riley, Quentin S. Crisp and David Price.

‘Paul Kane is helping to pump hot new blood into the horror genre...’ Christopher Fowler (bestselling author of Calabash and Full Dark House)

Price:- UK £7.99/US $12.99
ISBN: 0-9540877-5-5

Strange Tales

By Mark West

Stories: Infantophobia, Having A Bad Day, Empty Souls Drowning, Dead Skin, Speckles, Up For Anything, Together Forever, The Darkest Hour, The City In The Rain, Dreaming Of A Black Christmas, Beach.

Mark West's compelling stories have a well-crafted, slowly increasing sense of tension and dread, sometimes with a hint of creepy paranoia reminiscent of Philip K. Dick mixed in, the endings always abrupt and chilling, like an unexpected splash in the face with ice water.

Price:- UK £7.99/
ISBN: 1-894953-14-2

Shadow Writers Volume 2

Edited by Paul Kane

Another year, another twelve Shadow Writers. Volume Two in the series features yet more authors who have appeared on Paul Kane's website: Amy Grech, Paul Finch, Sue Phillips, Neal Asher, Suellen Luwish, Simon Bestwick, Sarah Crabtree, Joe Rattigan, Steven Deighan, Susanne S. Brydenbaugh, Eddie M. Angerhuber and Steve Gerlach.

Praise for Vol. 1: 'If this book is anything to go by then it's fairly safe to say there should be good times ahead for anyone who reads horror.' - Eternal Night.

'Imagine exceptional fantasy…A fine collector's item…a recommendable anthology beyond the mainstream.' - Mephisto Magazine.

Price:- UK: £7.99/US $12.99
ISBN: 0-9546178-2-7

Top International Horror

Edited by John B. Ford & Paul Kane

Authors: Kevin J. Anderson, Michael T. Huyck Jr., Darren Franz, Mary Romano, Alexis Child, Bruce Golden, John Ludlow, Sherid Adam Signs, Thomas Stone, Phil Locascio, Karole M. Svitak, Thomas Wagner, Melissa Patterson, Christopher Fulbright, Eddie M. Angerhuber.

Featuring all the winning stories from the Top International Horror Contest 2003, with stories voted into the book by genuine authors and readers. This is one story collection that you dare not miss!

Price:- UK: £8.00

Rule Dementia!

By Quentin S. Crisp

Stories: Jellyfish Joe, The Haunted Bicycle, Zugzwang, The Tao of Petite Beige, The Waiting, Unimaginable Joys

Rule Dementia! is the third collection of stories from Quentin S. Crisp, and as such cements the fact that he is a major new talent on the UK small press scene. In this book you will find the bizarre and surreal mixed to such perfection with an older classic influence to bring about unique style and content. Read these stories carefully and be sure to sink fully within them, for they're as deep as the ocean and give clues to the identity and doctrine of the author more accurately than any fingerprint or brain probe.

Sometimes writing like a modern Kafka or Schulz, it's hard to pin down the fiction of this author and name any certain influence, but you can be sure the end result is something very special.

Price:- £14.00

Tell Me When It's Over

Notes From the Paisley Underground
Edited by Clive Jones

The 1980s saw an explosive manifestation of psychedelic music from the West Coast of the USA known as the PAISLEY UNDERGROUND. This 280 page book compiles archive interviews from the most important magazines of the era. It also features new introductions to the bands by the top writers in the field.

Bands featured include: Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Long Ryders, Green On Red, Three O’Clock, True West, 28th Day, Wednesday Week, Mazzy Star, Clay Allison and Opal.

Authors featured in Tell Me When It’s Over include: Pat Thomas, Nigel Cross, Jud Cost, Fred Mills, Jon Storey and Paul Ricketts.

Price:- £12.00

Lost Worlds Of Space & Time Vol 2

Edited by Steve Lines

The long awaited second volume of LOST WORLDS OF SPACE & TIME, the tribute collection to the works and worlds of Clark Ashton Smith. Featuring the cream of today's fantasy authors exploring the wondrous realms of Smith's exotic imagination.

In these two volumes (really a single volume split into two for ease of publication) we pay tribute to the works of Clark Ashton Smith as today’s current practitioners of the ‘weird tale’ explore his incredible and macabre realms and create a stunning collection of tales inspired and influenced by the master.

By the time you turn the last page of this collection we will have taken you from Earth’s infancy and The One Continent down winding corridors of space and time to Atlantis, Hyperborea, Averoigne, Xiccarph, Earth, Aihai, Yihh, Xulthoom and finally to the last dying continent of Zothique. And that’s a journey of the mind worth taking I’m sure you’ll agree!

So come on, plunge deep into a universe of incredible worlds and fantastic creatures and experience once again the gorgeous, luxuriant feverishly distorted visions of Smith’s macabre creations.

Price:- £12.00

The Evil Entwines (Revised edition)

by John B. Ford & Guests

After the considerable success of John B. Ford's collaborative book THE EVIL ENTWINES we at Rainfall Books realised the high demand for an extended version of that same tome, this time featuring all the collaborative stories John has ever done.

Here you'll find a start-studded line up of authors mingled with some of the fastest rising new talent. These are authors John admires and found it a great honour to work with. If you are a fan of such writers as Thomas Ligotti, F. Paul Wilson, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Thomas, Brian Stableford, Tim Lebbon, D. F. Lewis, Paul Kane, Steve Lines, Paul Finch, L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims etc, this book is a must buy for you.

Price:- £15.00

Terror Tales #3

John B. Ford & Paul Kane

Stories: The Causeway by Stephen Laws; I'm Awlays here by Richard Christian Matheson; Blast From the Past by Simon Clark; A Short Guide to the City by Peter Straub; Whispers by Marie O'Regan; Tripod by Jeffrey Thomas; Where It Roots, How It Fruits by Chaz Brenchley; The dark Exit by Joel Lane; Feels Like Stephen King by Stephen Deighan; 0.5 MG by William Conrad; The Happt Misanthrpist by John Travis; What Elroy Did in His School Holidays by Jonathan Oliver; The Summer House by Vicki yates; A Slave of Melancholy by Mark Samuels; Bus Driver by Kevin Anderson; Dead to the World by Allen Ashley.

The latest edition of the highly acclaimed TERROR TALES with a stunning line up of writers brought to you by those two creatures of the night Fiendish Ford and Kreepy Kane.

Price:- £15.00

Mirror Mere

by Marie O'Regan

Stories: Whispers, Suicide Bridge, Bleed For Me, Alsiso, Sea View, 4.44, Cut To The Chase, Do You Remember, No Way Up, Samedi's Child, Can You See Me?, Touch, Spiritus Sanctus, Stay, Mirror Mere, I'll Call You, Tabith's Angel.

The debut collection from one of today's rising stars of horror, Mirror Mere will unnerve and disturb in equal measures. Take Marie O'Regan's hand as she shows you a world you've never seen before, one which mirrors our own but is just that bit different, that bit more terrifying. In sixteen short stories and the never before seen novella from which this book takes its title, she will expose you to some of these frights. Open the pages and look into the mirror . . . if you dare.

Price:- £8.99

Signs of Life

by Paul Kane

Stories: Signs of Life, The Bite, Who's Been . . .

with an introduction by Stephen Gallagher

Inside the pages of this very special book you will find two novellas and one short story from the imagination of Paul Kane, prize-winning author of Aline (In The Dark), Touching The Flame and Funny Bones. All are guaranteed to scare, to excite, to make you think twice about the world you're living in. And just who - or what - you're sharing it with.

Price:- £6.99

The Percival Tyler Files

by Clinton S. Green

Stories: The Prophecy In The Wood, The Curse of the Hindo, The Lost.

Percival Tyler is a young man in awe of his redoubtable father, the founder of the American Society for Reason and enemy of occultists everywhere. Early twentieth century society in New England, USA is rife with witches, spiritualists, and age-old legends from the backwoods. Percival assists his father on several cases, including an investigation of a series of horrific grave desecrations supposedly perpetrated by ghouls!

Weak-minded mortals cling to their superstitions, but the dedicated group of educated gentlemen fight to expose these so-called supernatural events. Their investigations show these occult oddities to be perfectly explainable in the end or do they?

The Percival Tyler Files is the story of supernatural beliefand the dogma of logic. It is the study of a son's attempts to live up to the impossible expectations of his father and of his strange journey towards an unspeakable destiny.

Price:- £10.00

In Fear & Dread

by Derek M. Fox.

Stories: Comeback, The Swing, Packy's Room, Sira, Call Me Daughter, Family Ties, Certificate X, Billy One-Eye, Heaven Sent?, A Walk In The Field, Schoolyard, Dwelling Place, An Exercise In White, Preacher Empty Chairs, Ripples, Creepers, Downfall, Heat, Windows Weeds, Stopping Clocks.

Derek M. Fox, a British author/creative writing tutor, has had countless stories published in the small press world. He has built a reputation for delivering chilling and atmospheric tales that linger on in the mind even after the last word has been read. Along with the novels Recluse and Demon there have been other collections of stories from Fox, but we at Rainfall Books are delighted to unleash upon the world his most complete and powerful collection yet..

Utmost care is recommended now as you are about to enter a world of Fear & Dread!

Price:- £12.00

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