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     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.111.176 |
Simon Clark and Allyson Bird invite you to an evening of ghost stories...near the lonely moors of South Yorkshire. Saturday 25th October 7.30p.m. Free entry The venue is Rafters Bar The Wagon and Horses Penistone Sheffield http://www.thewaggonandhorses-oxspring.co.uk/ | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I would so love to go but I'm at a Jimmy Carr gig in Manchester that night. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.111.176 |
Shame Weber. I hope to see you at another event soon. Didn't see you at Alt.Fiction this year. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.111.176 |
Highly delighted to say that Gary McMahon will be reading a story too :>) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.111.176 |
Just need to arrange for the mist to roll in from the moor. Did anyone enjoy An American Werewolf in London? You know the first scene don't you - where they leave the path and wander onto the moor? It is like that around where I live :>) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
Hopefully the Wagon & Horses isn't like the Slaughtered Lamb though... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.111.176 |
People used to get lost in the mists on the moor and they used to ring the church bells to guide them home. Many didn't make it :>) | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.112 |
You made me miss. I've never missed that board before. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.94 |
Marvelous! I wish I could come. Alas, other obligations, etc. But I'm sure it will happen someday. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.62.122 |
Really pleased to announce that John Travis has greed to read a story that was published in All Hallows a few years ago set in Whitby! Come on get your copies out and tell me the title... John Travis is a fine writer and will be soon appearing in BRITISH INVASION with Ramsey Campbell, Joel Lane and Gary Fry. Besides ALL HALLOWS he has appeared in many good publications such at THE HUMDRUMMING BOOKS OF HORROR. | ||
| Danzinger (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
"Mother would read to us, some nights, huddled around the fire, as the candles inched closer to the mantle. And all her stories were of flames and children." | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.62.122 |
Unfortunately Simon Clark probably won't be able to make it and it is probably to late to ask another writer who lives reasonably close. Ah -well the best laid plans of mice and birds :>) | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Can't make it, unfortunately, but I hope it goes really well. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.122.154 |
Directions. From the South: Leave the M1 at Juntion 35a and follow the A616 towards Manchester. Cross the large roundabout and continue on the A616. At the top of the hill take the slip road and turn left on the A629 towards Penistone and Wortley. Go through Wortley (beware tight narrow bends) and Thurgoland, and just before leaving Thurgoland take the B6462 to Oxspring (small road that drops steeply away to the left). The Waggon and Horses is just on the left as you enter Oxspring. From the North: Leave the M1 at Junction 37 and follow the A628 towards Penistone. Continue through Silkstone and up the very large hill. Just over the brow of the hill, turn left at the roundabout onto the A629. When you reach the Travellers Inn (pub on the left hand side), turn right down the hill into Oxspring. At the T junction the Waggon and Horses is slightly to the right, almost in front of you. From the West: From the M67 from Manchester, follow the A628 over the Woodhead Pass. Continue along the A628 towards Barnsley. Travel through Thurlstone and into Penistone. Turn right at the traffic lights by the White Heart pub up into the centre of Penistone. Turn left before the Rose & Crown, down the hill past the church, and follow the road out of Penistone and into Oxspring. The Waggon and Horses is on the right just before you leave the village. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.122.154 |
Thanks Mark! Even if not many turn up - Gary, John and I will read to each other :>) It will be fun one way or another. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
A short report: There were between 15 and 18 people at the reading - a few of Ally's friends and neighbours, another group of people nobody knew, and some people from a local writer's forum where they'd seen Ally's advert. Oh, and a guy called Matt Fryer from the Shocklines forum even came along! Ally gave a short (and very good) introduction on the history of horror in literature, and then read a story called "Hunter's Moon". After a short break for drinks John Travis read a corker called "Networking" from All Hallows (his first time reading, and he was superb - the best of the night). I went on last, after the pie and pea supper, and did "A Stillness in the Air" from my latest collection. Only my second public reading, and the fear is beginning to recede. The stories were very well received from people mostly unfamilar with the genre. We shattered a few preconceptions regarding what horror and ghost stories are all about. I even sold a few books! :-) As you'd expect, we went for a lovely curry afterwards. All in all, it was a very good evening; a success, I'd say. I have to take my hat off to Ally for organising the event . | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.65.112 |
Thank you Gary! The venue was perfect for ghost story reading. I find that the more writers get out there and talk about what horror fiction means to them the more those preconceptions are put to one side. We talked to people who don't usually think that they read horror. Everyone had fun and it was great that you travelled all that way to do it on a stormy evening. The curry was a beaut! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You had pie and peas and curry?? May I refer you to another thread... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.65.112 |
Nah - some of the people who came had pie and peas. We saved ourselves for later and went over moor edge to the curry house :>) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I bet Pieface McMahon snuck a portion while you were reading. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
:-) Nope, there were no chillies in the pie so it was no good to me. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
"Who ate all the pies...?" It was McMahon! Fry's well pissed off. |