| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.95.168 |
A signed limited chapbook of a brand new short story: http://nightjarpress.wordpress.com/ You have to email Nick Royle to buy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.61.66 |
Bought that at the PS launch - not read it yet though... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.95.168 |
For you, Mick, it's a short story for a tall guy. For Zed, it's a tall story for a short guy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.61.66 |
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| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
This is very good indeed, and the other Nightjar chapbook - "The Safe Children" by Tom Fletcher - is even better (one of the best tales I've read all year). | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Is Nick Royle behind Nightjar Press then? If so, that would explain the quality of the chapbooks if he's picked the stories. When ever I've come across one of his stories in an anthology, I've always enjoyed it immensely. A very under-rated writer in my opinion - we should see much, much more of his writing. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.95.168 |
Nick Royle is the guvnor. My favourite body of short fiction in the field other than the untouchable Ramsey's. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Does Nick have any nice collections you'd recommend me to try, Gary? (or anyone else, for that matter - doesn't have to be Gary) I must admit, I've only ever come across the occasional short story by him in various anthologies. But I really should read more by him I think. Oh, and I should say I love MMS shorts too. "The Man Who Drew Cats" certainly rates as one of the best more recent short stories I've read. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
I kind of lost touch with MMS's stuff after his second thriller (bigfoot, my arse), but I've always enjoyed his short stories. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Me wants | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.219.203 |
Caroline, there's only one Nicholas Royle collection, MORTALITY (Serpent's Tail, 2008). It's very good indeed. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Yes, Nick's fiction is terrific. "Mortality" is an excellent collection. I bought it twice because I left my first copy on a plane. :-/ | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Thanks, guys. I might have to check out Amazon, AbeBooks, etc for "Mortality". | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
I reserved copies of both chapbooks. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.10.20.129 |
Read these two stories last night and I enjoyed both stories immensely- The Tom Fletcher tale had a disturbing center indeed- with a sort of corporate horror Ligottian feel. Great contrasts between the desolate and run down- urban landscape with the very sterile and bland work place. A really strong tale. MMS was up to his usual mischieviousness, with a strong tale as well. Actually I think this story really shows what MMS does so well, the seemingly simple, surreal and terrifying stuff. I hope he publishes more new short fiction soon. I'm enjoying his novels a great deal, but the short fiction is special | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Tom Fletcher's story is one of the best I've read this year - and I found it almost anti-Ligotti, btw. It was concerned with people, their lives and their expectations of the future we were all promised decades ago. A future that never arrived. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.10.20.129 |
What happened to my flying car... Is a great line in this | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
"Where are my safe children? Where is my flying car?" The quote lies at the heart of the story's wonderful sense of melancholy and regret. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Yes, enjoyed both of these chapbooks, especially the Tom Fletcher one. I've never read anythin of his before, but I'm very glad I started. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 99.199.107.118 |
There's a novella of Nicholas Royle's called The Appetite that Mr. Royle assured me is not entirely rubbish. Available from Grey Friar Press. …why, that's Gary Fry's outfit! Fancy that! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.202.57 |
The Appetite is very good. Not strictly horror though I don't think. gcw | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
More like magical realism, I thought (is that the right term?). A little belter. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.162.59.64 |
Yes I really liked The Appetite. Surreal as well. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.110.23.32 |
It's Gray Friar Press, and not Grey Friar Press. It's an anagram, like, innit. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Gray Friar press is an anagram? Only thing I can see in it is Fry rear pissrag | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
"Fry rear pissrag" Yes, but we might not buy his books if he called it that!  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
You might not... It could be a very specialist publishing outlet. | ||
| Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
Or how about Grr Sparse Fairy? |