Danel Olson (ed.) – Exotic Gothic 4

Danel Olson (ed.) – Exotic Gothic 4   (Drugstore Indian Press, 2014. Originally P.S., 2012)

Photo: Apolinar Lorenzo Chuca

Danel Olson – Preface: On Dark Gifting

Margo Lanagan – Blooding the Bride
Adam L.G. Nevill – Pig Thing
Kaaron Warren – The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club
Reggie Oliver – The Look
Lucy Taylor – Nikishi
Simon Kurt Unsworth – The Fourth Horse
Stephen Dedman – The Fall
Tunku Halim – In the Village of Setang
David Punter – Carving
Genni Gunn – Water Lover
Robert Hood – Escena de un Asesinato
Steve Rasnic Tem – The Old Man Beset by Demons
David Wellington – Atacama
Isobelle Carmody – Metro Winds
Terry Dowling – Mariners’ Round
Paul Finch – Oschaert
Ekaterina Sedia – Helena
Anna Taborska – Rusalka
Nick Antosca – Candy
Joseph Bruchac – Down in the Valley
Cherie Dimaline – Wanishin
Brian Evenson – Grottor
E. Michael Lewis – Such a Man I Would Have Become
Scott Thomas – The Unfinished Book
Stephen Volk – Celebrity Frankenstein

Blurb
A bumper anthology, with stories from twenty-five of today’s finest speculative fiction writers.

 

Jonathan Oliver – House of Fear

Jonathan Oliver (ed.) – House of Fear   (Solaris 2011)

Lisa Tuttle – Objects in Dreams may be Closer than they Appear
Stephen Volk – Pied-a-terre
Terry Lamsley – In The Absence of Murdock
Adam L.G. Nevill – Florrie
Weston Ochse – Driving The Milky Way
Rebecca Levene – The Windmill
Garry Kilworth – Moretta
Chaz Brenchley – Hortus Conclusus
Robert Shearman – The Dark Space in The House in The House in The Garden at The Centre of The World
Nina Allan – The Muse of Copenhagen
Christopher Fowler – An Injustice
Sarah Pinborough – The Room Upstairs
Paul Meloy – Villanova
Christopher Priest – Widow’s Weeds
Jonathan Green – The Doll’s House
Nicholas Royle – Inside/Out
Eric Brown – The House
Tim Lebbon – Trick of The Light
Joe R. Lansdale – What Happened to Me

Blurb:
The tread on the landing outside the door, when you know you are the only one in the house. The wind whistling through the eves, carrying the voices of the dead. The figure glimpsed briefly through the cracked window of a derelict house. Editor Jonathan Oliver brings horror home with a collection of haunted house stories by some of the finest writers working in the horror genre

Thanks to John Llewellyn Probert for providing the cover scan and details

more information on Vault of Evil forum

Jonathan Oliver – The End Of The Line

Due November 2010 from Solaris ….

Jonathan Oliver (ed.) – The End Of The Line (Solaris, Nov. 2010)

Introduction – Jonathan Oliver

Paul Meloy – Bullroarer
John L. Probert – The Girl in The Glass
Nicholas Royle – The Lure
Rebecca Levene – 23:46 Morden (via Bank)
Jasper Bark – End of The Line
Simon Bestwick – The Sons of The City
Al Ewing – The Roses That Bloom Underground
Conrad Williams – Exit Sounds
Pat Cadigan – Funny Things
Adam L.G. Nevill – On All London Underground Lines
Mark Morris – Fallen Boys
Stephen Volk – In The Colosseum
Ramsey Campbell – The Rounds
Michael Marshall Smith – Missed Connection
James Lovegrove – Siding 13
Gary McMahon – Diving Deep
Natasha Rhodes – Crazy Train
Joel Lane – All Dead Years
Christopher Fowler – Down

see also the Subterranean Cannibals thread on the Vault Forum

Gary Fry – Poe’s Progeny

Gary Fry (ed.) – Poe’s Progeny (Gray Friars Press, Sept. 2005)

Michael Marshall Smith – Introduction

Mike O’Driscoll – The Hurting House
Mark Morris – The Places They Hide
Antony Mann – Save The Snutch
Melvin Cartagena – Bottom Feeders
Tim Lebbon – A Ripple In The Veil
Steve Savile – Idiot Hearts
Joel Lane – A Night On Fire
Greg Beatty – Dr Jackman’s Lens
Chico Kidd – Unfinished Business
Conrad Williams – Once Seen
Jon Hartless – Earth, Water, Oil
Nicholas Royle – Sitting Tenant
Kathy Sedia – Making Ivy
Dominick Cancilla – The Cubicle Wall
Stephen Volk – The Good Unknown
Gary Fry – The Strange Case Of Jack Myride And Company
Andrew Hook – The Pregnant Sky
Gene Stewart – Evidence
Rhys Hughes – The Jam Of Hypnos
Gary McMahon – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Adam L. G. Nevill – Where Angels Come In
John L. Probert – The Volkendorf Exhibition
Allen Ashley – Turbulent Times
Richard Gavin – The Pale Lover
Kevin L. Donihe – Living Room Zombies
Neil Ayres – The Scent Of Nostalgia
Robert Swartwood – Goodbye
Simon Clark – One Man Show
Donald R. Burleson – Papa Loaty
Ramsey Campbell – Just Behind You

Blurb:

Too often contemporary horror fiction denies, forgets or is even unaware of its roots in classic dark literature. The man legitimately called the father of the genre, Edgar Allan Poe, thrust terror into the soul of humanity, while his illegitimate descendants located it in the cosmos, across nations, in science, through history, in nature, in the city — in short, wherever people come together and invariably attempt to dull their imaginations. But experience is always too cruel.

These themes are of course relevant today.

This book aims to show how the ideas and techniques of the greats might be utilised to explore the modern world. Here you’ll find neither pastiche nor period prose, rather thoroughly contemporary visions whose aging, tell-tale heart still beats with dismaying memory of the past and irrepressible fear for the future…

30 original stories from some of the finest practitioners in the field, including a brand new tale from modern master Ramsey Campbell.

Gary Fry – Bernie Herrmann’s Manic Sextet

Gary Fry (ed.) – Bernie Herrmann’s Manic Sextet (Gray Friars, Dec. 2005)

Mike O’Driscoll – Introduction

Paul Finch – Hobhook
Donald Pulker – Forced Perspective
Andrew Hook – Live From The Hippodrome
Gary McMahon – Like A Stone
Adam L. G. Nevill – The Other Occupant
Rhys Hughes – The Hydrothermal Reich
Simon Strantzas – Fading Light

Blurb

Edgar Allan Poe suggested that the short story was the ideal vehicle for the dark tale, yet some of the finest ever written — to take just two examples, Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Willows’ and H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour Out Of Space’ — are far longer. The novella, or novelette, is an enduringly popular form in the field of imaginative literature, yet few books celebrate it exclusively.

This collection seeks to show how the longer short story, or the very short novel, is ideally suited to the demands of creating an atmosphere, telling an involving tale, and developing compelling characters. The authors here are all masters of their craft: they know how to combine economy with broad visions of fear.

Let their chill melody seduce you; discordant imagery awaits; infectious rhythms will drive you wild with dread.

Six outstanding pieces from some of today’s bleakest prodigies. Let the music commence…