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     Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.34.191 |
If anyone is interested, the first ever horror anthology edited by my good self – TERROR TALES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT – will be available for pre-order from Gray Friar Press from tomorrow afternoon onwards (Sat Sept 17). It contains ten original works of fiction from some of the current best chill-meisters in the business and three classic reprints. For full details, including cover art, TOC and background details, check on my blog page: http://paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/ A quick extra word: any of my fellow authors who would have liked to be involved in this project but didn’t know anything about it, please don’t be frustrated or annoyed. First of all, I’m still learning this antho business, and for that reason I didn’t throw it open. Secondly, I’m hoping that this will be the first in a series of ‘regional horror’ anthologies set around the UK, and all of those authors I know and rate will be approached in due course to contribute. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Well done, Paul. That sounds like a tasty line-up. Congrats, and here's to many more anthologies edited by you. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.205 |
Great lineup. I shall be getting this. Good stuff, Paul. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Ooooo, nice - I'll be ordering that one too (recently ordered Zed's from the friendly Gray Friar too). Great cover art from Steve Upham. How about a "Terror Tales of Yorkshire" next, Paul? Yorkshire has some very nice spooky myths and mysteries. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.34.191 |
The Dales is in the line-up somewhere, Caroline, but at present it's too much for me. As a good Lancashire lad, I have too many experiences of Yorkshire that make me shudder uncontrollably. There is such a thing as 'horror', and there is such a thing as 'too much horror'. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
 The War of the Roses still goes on ... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.182 |
It's only an issue for those losers in Lancashire. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Losers? Who bloody won at Bosworth Field? (As I've said elsewhere, deep down the Yorkies recognise the innate superiority of the Red Rose County...) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.182 |
Look, you have Coronation Street. We have Emmerdale. I think I've made my point. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.182 |
Perhaps it's an apt time to mention that my dad's family are Mancunians. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Meanwhile, my mum was born in Sheffield. And my dad's family came from Yorkshire and all... Oh bugger. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.182 |
We're mutants, mate. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
The Lake District eh? Sounds wonderful. The area is on my top ten of places to go. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.182 |
It is. Stunning. Except for the monsters. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.27.203 |
Just don't read the book while in the Lake District. The stories aren't meant to be taken littorally. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
That's a shore point with some people. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Alas, you should appreciate this, Joel: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/171199 | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.30.19 |
Some nice wordplay there, but it Calydon a bit too long. Interesting to see that the magazine it appeared in has some wealthy Bacchus. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Now you're just Vulcan with me. I Hades say it like that, but I Colosseum. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.34.191 |
For those headed Darn Sarf this weekend - i.e. to Brighton - we'll have copies of TERROR TALES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT available for purchase in the book room (and lots of the authors will be knocking around, so, though there won't be an official launch, signings will be possible as long as you don't mind doorstopping folk in bars, corridors, restaurants, etc). | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.8.175 |
Hurrah! Bloody hell, I'm going to be buying so many books this year. Think I'm going to need a bigger boat to get it all home from Brighton. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 95.74.37.185 |
Has anyone received "Lake District"? Cold Tonnage has it in stock aleady, so I surmise Gray Friar is, or has been, fulfilling Orders for the book. I'm still waiting for my copy. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.118.51 |
I sent your copy, Giancarlo. It will be with you very soon. Sorry for any delay; I've been, as always, quite busy. You can always email me direct for such enquiries. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.118.51 |
Cold Tonnage were able to collect their copies at Fantasy Con, btw. That is why they have it available. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 95.75.185.174 |
Thank you, Gary! I think my message here was suggested by anxiety about the book. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
It should be fine, Giancarlo. I'm surprised it hasn't shown up. Royal Mail promise Airmail delivery in three to five days, and it was posted a week ago. But I sometimes experience delays. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 217.201.93.203 |
Gary, the book arrived yesterday, so it's just a short delay. Thanks again! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
Hurrah! Thought so, mate. Hope you enjoy it. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.1.6 |
Ordered mine now - forgot about picking up a copy at the convention! D'oh! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
So you did! Cheers, tall guy. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Mine arrived in the post today - looks great and can't wait to get my teeth into it! Thanks guys!  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.1.6 |
...and mine too - we must both have the same postman, Caroline! Looks wonderful. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
I hope s/he's not the thieving bastard who seems to serve Zed's house! Glad you like the look of it, guys. The tales are great, too. Esepcially mine, which is a work of great genius. It will transform and enrich your lives. Not bad for £9! | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 81.132.145.240 |
Mine came today too! My son took one look at the cover and turned it over lol | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.34.191 |
I hope you folks enjoy this book. It'll be the first of many. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Well, I've just started on it - I read the Reggie Oliver first (trust me to start with the last story in the book!). An excellent start! | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 135.196.120.43 |
Only read Carole Johnson's story so far but does anyone write better dialect based dialogue? The speech of the Ferryman helped to create a perfect image of the character in my mind. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.235 |
I'm reading this at the minute and thoroughly enjoying it. Not a bad story in there. Entertaining with a capital E. I shall definitely be buying the next one. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.38.38 |
Folk might be interested to know that Simon Bestwick's excellent contribution to this antho - THE MORAINE - has been chosen by Ellen Datlow fo her BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR #4. If you haven't read this story yet, you need to - getting lost in the foggy Lake District fells is something that from this point on you will seriously try to avoid. |