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     Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.35.232 |
Chuffed to announce that the next volume in my series of regional UK horror anthologies, TERROR TALES OF THE COTSWOLDS, is now ready to pre-order from Gray Friar Press. It includes 12 original works of horror fiction and two classic reprints, from such luminaries of the genre as Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Chris Harman, Gary McMahon, Alison Littlewood, John Llewellyn Probert, Simon Clark, etc. For the full TOC, cover art, back cover blurb and so forth, feel free to check my blog - http://paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/, or go straight to the Gray Friar page - http://www.grayfriarpress.com/catalogue/cotswolds.html. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I'll be buying a copy of this for sure! I spent one summer during college working in a hotel in the Cotswolds - supposed to be haunted. I actually had a strange experience whilst cleaning one of the rooms there (no rude comments please - not *that* kind of experience!). I didn't know about the supposed haunting at the time I experienced it, but someone told me afterwards. It'll be interesting to see if that hotel gets a mention. I guess you've done the same as before - ie. putting little bits of "true" folklore, etc, in between the stories? Anyway, I'll be off to order soon ... | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.4.197 |
I'm definitely planning on buying the Lake District book when the next time I have some spare cash for first-hand books (or first-hand anything) again. It's a great idea for a series of anthologies, I'm just wondering if there are plans to cover anywhere in Scotland at some point? | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.35.232 |
Caroline - it is indeed a similar format to the last. The full TOC is on my blog, and this indicates which incidents of 'true' horror we have gone for. As before, these intersperse the fictional tales. David - there are plans to cover Scotland, both the Highlands and the Lowlands, hopefully as separate books, but that's a little way down the line at present. We're aiming to do two books a year, but obviously these plans are sales-dependent. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
I'm hoping you do the northeast...I have a great Lambton Worm story I want to write. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.35.232 |
The northeast is certainly scheduled, Gaz. But it's not quite imminent. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Wot! No Yorkshire?  Nevertheless, I've still ordered the Cotswolds book. I really enjoyed the Lake District one. Looks like a Steve Upham cover again too? Very nice! | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.35.232 |
Yorkshire is also in the pipeline. We're missing nowhere out. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.103.103.232 |
Except Lancashire. Bring the whole series down, that would. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.35.232 |
For that, we're doing Yorkshire last. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
No - for Yorkshire do slapstick comedy stories instead of Horror. Fill it with men shouting "Eck Ee thump" and hitting each other over the head with sticks of rhubarb. That'll teach him. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Wet rhubarb. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>We're missing nowhere out.<< How about the West Country - my place of birth/upbringing? Plenty of strange places and odd goings-on there. Neolithic burial mounds, etc, etc. Weber - the forced rhubarb harvest was poor this year - too dry, apparently. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.35.232 |
Yep, the West Country as well. But we mustn't run before our horse to market. The next one is already cast, and is TERROR TALES OF EAST ANGLIA. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
It's just that, as you can see, I'm excited about this series. I can see me getting a whole collection of them - like the Pans.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.103.103.232 |
That will happen, rest assured. We're both solidly behind the series. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.11.133 |
I'd love to see this develop as a series. Great stuff. Gary M, I've been to the place where the Lambton Worm caused its trouble. I remember a steep hill and my illustration from the Usborne Book of Monsters (1979 or thereabouts). | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
I still have that very book, Steve, in the combined 'Usborne Book Of The Unknown' format. The knight covered in spikes slicing the worm into segments. Also have the sci-fi one. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I was brought up about a mile away from where the Lambron Worm did it's stuff. I always used to think it was curled up, sleeping, beneeath Penshaw Monument (I bet Tony used to think that, too). | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Lambton. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I was the sort of kid who would have gone digging for the thing. But then I once saw the end of a rainbow, on a beach in Donegal, and went digging for gold! The other title is 'The Usborne Book Of The Future'. Those wonderfully illustrated books had a powerful effect on my imagination as a young teenager. I would never part with them. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
My copy of "Terror Tales of the Cotswolds" arrived today - many thanks to Gary, Paul and all the contributors! I must say, Steve Upham's cover art for this series so far has been absolutely excellent. I'm sure the contents of this one will be just as good as the first too. Looking forward to reading this! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.124.205 |
I'd forgotten about this book. Really liked the first so I've just ordered this'un. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.27.158 |
I have mine. Many thanks, Paul and Gary! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.43.252 |
Enjoy! Enjoy! | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.44.194 |
You guys are all welcome. Hope you enjoy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.124.205 |
Ooh, my copy turned up today. Looks lovely... | ||
| Christopher Overend (Chris_overend) Username: Chris_overend Registered: 03-2012 Posted From: 217.33.165.66 |
What about Terror Tales of Merseyside? Although I fear Ramsey has already marked that territory, it would be interesting to have another take on 'God's Country'. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
merseyside? god's own country? is that Mars the god of war you're referring to? or Pan the god of chaos?  | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.44.194 |
Merseyside will figure in TERROR TALES OF THE NORTH-WEST (or some title similar). Scheduled for late 2013 (though schedules can slip a little). | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I'm still waiting for the Yorkshire one - it's a truly terrifying place, is Yorkshire.  | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.44.194 |
I've always thought, Caroline, that Yorkshire is such a disturbed and disturbing place that it can pretty well carry its own anthology. So TERROR TALES OF THE DALES (working title) has got to be on the list somewhere. |