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WHIRLWIND ROMANCE by Sam Thompson from @UnsungTweets #BookReview #ShortStories #FlashFiction

26/09/2022

The front cover for Whirlwind Romance by Sam Thompson. The front cover is a picture of a room with a wooden chair in the foreground next to a white cabinet with another wooden chair on top of it. On the left hand side is a doorway and there is a woman in the doorway who is wearing a face mask.

WHIRLWIND ROMANCE by Sam Thompson Unsung Stories, p/b, £9.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Effective writing can come at a variety of lengths, from the fifty-word mini-saga to [...]

THE NIGHT WIRE and Other Tales of Weird Media edited by Aaron Worth from @BL_Publishing #BookReview #ShortStory

23/09/2022

The front cover for The Night Wire edited by Aaron Worth. The front cover is black with a person sitting at a telelgraph machine picked out in a dull yellow.

THE NIGHT WIRE and Other Tales of Weird Media edited by Aaron Worth British Library Press, p/b, £9.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan The term media as expressed in the stories [...]

THE GHOST SLAYERS, edited by Mike Ashley from @BL_Publishing #BookReview #ShortStories #GhostStories #Horror

19/08/2022

The front cover for The Ghost Slayers. There are red flames on a black background and the gaps in the flames create the image of a wolf's head.

THE GHOST SLAYERS, edited by Mike Ashley British Library Press p/b, £8.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan A belief in ghosts has existed in most cultures since people began [...]

BFS Short Story Competition 2017 Results‏

26/10/2017

It is with great joy we can finally announce the winners of this year’s BFS Short Story Competition. We are grateful to all participants for their submissions, the [...]

Midnight Echo seeking submissions on a ‘mythical horror’ theme

17/10/2012

Midnight Echo, the official magazine of the Australian Horror Writers’ Association, is seeking submissions for Issue 9 Mythical Horror (edited by G.N. Braun). [...]

Rosalie Parker’s The Old Knowledge – second printing from Swan River Press available for pre-order

28/07/2012

In September 2011 Swan River Press published, to great acclaim, The Old Knowledge by Tartarus Press’Â Rosalie Parker, and it quickly went out of print. Swan River [...]

InkerMen Press to publish collection by D.F. Lewis

27/07/2012

On 1 August 2012 InkerMen Press publishes the long-awaited second collection from award-winning author D.F. Lewis. The Last Balcony collects a number of Lewis’ [...]

BFS Short Story Competition 2012 â€“ Final call for entries

22/06/2012

Allen Ashley, judge of this yearâ€™s BFS Short Story Competition, sends this gentle reminder to anyone who has yet to enter: “Thank you to everyone who has already [...]

Less than one month left to enter the BFS Short Story Competition

06/06/2012

Don’t forget that the BFS Short Story Competition closes this month. Allen Ashley, judge of this yearâ€™s competition, sent this message: “Now, I know that [...]

Latest Aickman volume from Tartarus Press

19/05/2012

Tartarus Press will publish Tales of Love and Death by Robert Aickman on 28 May 2012. This collection contains a new Introduction by Michael Dirda, along with the stories [...]