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Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology - Robert Holdstock tribute

I'm utterly thrilled to announce that my latest book, Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology , will be published by PS Publishing later this month! We'll have copies on the PS table at Worldcon later this week - so if you're in Glasgow, it's the perfect time to pick up a copy (there will be a group table signing at 1pm on Saturday, at the PS Publishing table in the Dealers' Room). If you're not in Glasgow, there's a pre-order link below. Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood was published in 1984, and went on to win both the World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award. It's an incredible masterwork of modern fantasy, combined with elements of horror, sci-fi and folklore, and a book that's always been dear to me. In his Introduction to the anthology Michael Moorcock calls it "the outstanding fantasy book of its time", and I'd have to agree! I've spent the last two years working with Holdstock's estate and some of the ...

For Tomorrow: the Wellbrook High Yearbook 1993 - new anthology out now!

It's finally here! My latest anthology, For Tomorrow , hit shelves last week - and it's already getting rave reviews. Here's what Runalong The Shelves had to say: This is a fascinating collection with an intriguing spin on the ideas of found footage and cursed object, but in this case it’s the character who is cursed and here are their unknown later stories. These relatively young people are, through very little fault of their own, now marked in some way. This was the type of collection where I thought I’ll just try one and then found a few hours later I’d devoured it in one sitting! ... For Tomorrow I think is one of the creepiest collections I’ve read, managing to offer varied and powerful stories and yet at no time is it ever clear what did happen in 1993 at Wellbrook, which makes it even by the end more ominous and sinister. I do wonder if we could find more lost pupils from that school in the future, but this is a standout modern horror collection well ...

Scream! Scream!! Scream!!!

Twenty years ago, two friends and I decided to write, produce and direct a series of three short horror plays for Halloween. The trilogy was called Scream! Scream!! Scream!!!, and it enjoyed at least one rather lukewarm review. What was remarkable about it was the range of our ideas. One of the plays was a moody serial killer thriller, another was a sliver of weird horror straight out of the Twilight Zone , while the third was a bizarre slasher-pantomime that climaxed with the audience throwing Halloween candy at the blood-drenched actors. None of the plays had much in common, yet they all lurked beneath the Horror banner. Fast forward twenty years, and Litro #138 has the same Horror theme. Of all the issues I've edited of the magazine, this is probably my favourite. In part that's due to the quality of the writing. We have a fantastically haunting tale by Toby Litt , a sliver of near-future horror from Richard Thomas , and a deeply disturbing story about toys from Ada...

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