Posts Tagged ‘Conrad Williams’
Posted by demonik on July 6, 2020
Stephen Jones (ed.) – Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead (Ulysses Press, 2011)

what!design
Acknowledgments
Stephen Jones – Introduction: The Restless Dead
Richard L. Tierney – The Revenant (verse)
M. R. James – A Warning to the Curious
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Door
Reggie Oliver – Hand to Mouth
Richard Matheson – Two O’Clock Session
Paul McAuley – Inheritance
Sarah Pinborough – Grandmother’s Slippers
Peter Atkins – The Mystery
Christopher Fowler – Poison Pen
Ramsey Campbell – Return Journey
Lisa Tuttle – Grandfather’s Teeth
Basil Copper – Ill Met by Daylight
John Gordon – The Place
R. B. Russell – The Bridegroom
Kim Newman – Is There Anybody There?
Conrad Williams – Wait
Richard Christian Matheson – City of Dreams
Tanith Lee – A House on Fire
John Gaskin – Party Talk
Simon Kurt Unsworth – The Hurting Words
Robert Silverberg – The Church at Monte Saturno
Neil Gaiman – The Hidden Chamber (verse)
Robert Shearman – Good Grief
Karl Edward Wagner – Blue Lady, Come Back
Michael Marshall Smith – The Naughty Step
About the Editor
Blurb:
The Restless Dead.
Life is over but the dead live on. Within the drafty rooms of an old house, a tarnished locket tumbles to the floor. The haunted souls of the dearly departed are still among us. Ghosts, phantoms, revenants, lost souls — all these troubled spirits have unfinished business on this side of the veil. Doomed to seek out mortal answers, unable to rest until in death they accomplish what they failed to achieve in life.
This hair-raising collection of haunted tales brings together both new writers and celebrated masters — Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Richard Matheson, Michael Marshall Smith and others — for the ultimate collection from beyond the grave.
The characters in each chilling tale are spirits, without bodies but still floating in our world. Some are motivated by love, others by loss or guilt. But sometimes they are driven by much stronger emotions, menacing and diabolical motives that take us up from our reading to check the hallways, secure the locks and question how firmly anchored we ourselves are to our world.
Posted in Stephen Jones | Tagged: Basil Copper, Christopher Fowler, Conrad Williams, Haunts, John Gaskin, John Gordon, Karl Edward Wagner, Kim Newman, Lisa Tuttle, M. R. James, Michael Marshall Smith, Neil Gaiman, Paul McAuley, Peter Atkins, R. B. Russell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Richard Christian Matheson, Richard L. Tierney, Richard Matheson, Robert Shearman, Robert Silverberg, Sarah Pinborough, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Stephen Jones, Tanith Lee, Ulysses Press, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on June 27, 2018
Conrad Williams (ed.) – Dead Letters: An Anthology Of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned (Titan, 2016)

Design by Julia Lloyd
Conrad Williams – Introduction
Steven Hall – The Green Letter
Michael Marshall Smith – Over to You
Joanne Harris – In Memoriam
Alison Moore – Ausland
Christopher Fowler – Wonders to Come
Pat Cadigan – Cancer Dancer
Ramsey Campbell – The Wrong Game
Claire Dean – Is—and
Andrew Lane – Buyer’s Remorse
Muriel Gray – Gone Away
Nina Allan – Astray
Adam LG Nevill – The Days of Our Lives
Lisa Tuttle – The Hungry Hotel
Nicholas Royle – London
Angela Slatter – Change Management
Maria Dahvana Headley & China Miéville – Ledge Bants
Kirsten Kaschock – And We, Spectators Always, Everywhere
Blurb:
The Dead Letters Office: the final repository of the undelivered. Love missives unread, gifts never received, lost in postal limbo. Dead Letters: An Anthology features new stories from the masters of horror, fantasy and science fiction, each inspired by an object from the Dead Letters Office.
Posted in Conrad Williams | Tagged: Adam LG Nevill, Alison Moore, Andrew Lane, Angela Slatter, China Miéville, Christopher Fowler, Claire Dean, Conrad Williams, Dead Letters, Joanne Harris, Kirsten Kaschock, Lisa Tuttle, Maria Dahvana Headley, Michael Marshall Smith, Muriel Gray, Nicholas Royle, Nina Allan, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Steven Hall, Titan, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on January 24, 2016
Paul Finch (ed.) – Terror Tales Of The Ocean (Gray Friar, Jan. 2016)

Neil Williams
Terry Grimwood – Stuka Juice
Ship of the Dead
Stephen Laws – The End of the Pier
The Swirling Sea
Steve Duffy – Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Meg
Lynda E. Rucker – The Seventh Wave
The Palmyra Curse
Adam Nevill – Hippocampus
Gelatinous
Conrad Williams – The Offing
Blood and Oil
Peter James – Sun Over the Yard Arm
Echoes of an Eldritch Past
Simon Strantzas – First Miranda
Sharkbait
Simon Clark & John B. Ford – The Derelict of Death
Horrific Beasts
Jan Edwards – The Decks Below
The Flying Dutchman
Paul Finch – Hell in the Cathedral
From the Hadean Deep
Adam Golaski – Hushed Will Be All Murmurs
Mer-Killers
Robert Shearman – And This Is Where We Falter
Posted in *Gray Friar Press*, Paul Finch | Tagged: Adam Golaski, Adam Nevill, Conrad Williams, Gray Friar, Jan Edwards, Lynda E. Rucker, Neil Williams, Ocean, Paul Finch, Peter James, Robert Shearman, Simon Clark & John B. Ford, Simon Strantzas, Stephen Laws, Steve Duffy, Terror Tales, Terry Grimwood, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on September 10, 2014
It’s approaching ….
Stephen Jones (creator) – Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame (Robinson, Oct. 2014)

Cover: Joe Roberts
Ramsey Campbell – Ramsey’s Ruminations : Moreby In The Media
Stephen Baxter – 1897-1946: Todt Chemie-AG
Jo Fletcher – Our World In Their Hands
Jo Fletcher – Lost Boys
Stephen Baxter – 2005: Obituary Of Barry pound
Stephen Baxter – 1849: Joseph Bonomi #1: The Mourning Rings
Stephen Baxter – 1878: Joseph Bonomi 2: The Return Of Mobius
Jo Fletcher – The World’s Great Mysteries!
Gary McMahon – Bits And Pieces
Michael Marshall Smith – Wethaz
Brian Hodge – Lady Cecilia
Stephen Baxter – 1504: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Testament Of Giovanni
Michael Marshall Smith – Downcount
Stephen Baxter – Tom Lehrer and Morbius
Lou Morgan – Diary Entry #4
Stephen Baxter – Sympathy For The Deathless
Michael Marshall Smith – Endnotes
Paul Kane – He Is Legend
Stephen Baxter – The Two Morebys
Stephen Baxter – 1851: Herman Melville
Brian Hodge – The Return Of The Seven
Nancy Kilpatrick – Family
John Llewellyn Probert – The Three Messiahs
Alison Littlewood – Zombie VS. Zombi
Peter Crowther – Dead Inside
Angela Slatter – Red Dust, White Earth
Paul McAuley – The Return Of The Kings
Peter Atkins – Z.O.A.
Michael Marshall Smith – Appetite
Pat Cadigan – Rocky III
Thana Niveau – Vile Earth, To Earth Resign
Peter Crowther – An Interwiew With Bernie Maughmstein
Conrad Williams – Horizon Deep
Lisa Morton – Kevin Needs To Talk About Us
Stephen Baxter – The Three Morebys
Michael Marshall Smith – Things Future
Stephen Jones – Last Rites
Kim Newman – Zombie Apocalypse! Title Song
Blurb:
IS THIS THE END . . . OR JUST THE BEGINNING? Human Reanimation Virus (HRV) has spread around the globe and most of the major cities have fallen or been destroyed. As a new race of intelligent zombies rise to power, the remaining pockets of human resistance make a last, desperate stand in the ruins of a world on the brink of unimaginable change. With the final pieces of the epic puzzle falling into place, a centuries-old Endgame is revealed through interconnected emails, articles, reports, diaries and eyewitness accounts, as past and future hang in the balance. In this third and final volume of the original best-selling Zombie Apocalypse! trilogy, Thomas Moreby’s plan for world domination is finally revealed in all its mad glory, as the very fabric of time and space is ripped apart and history itself is about to be changed forever . . .

Posted in *Constable/Robinson*, Stephen Jones | Tagged: Alison Littlewood, Angela Slatter, Brian Hodge, Conrad Williams, Gary McMahon, Jo Fletcher, Joe Roberts, John Llewellyn Probert, Kim Newman, Lisa Morton, Lou Morgan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Kilpatrick, Pat Cadigan, Paul Kane, Paul McAuley, Peter Atkins, Peter Crowther, Ramsey Campbell, Robinsons, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Jones, Thana Niveau, Vault Of Evil, Zombie Apocalypse | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on August 22, 2014
Mark Morris (ed.) – The Spectral Book of Horror Stories (Spectral Press, Sept. 2014)

Vincent Cheong
Ramsey Campbell – On The Tour
Alison Littlewood – The Dog’s Home
Helen Marshall – Funeral Rites
Tom Fletcher – Slape
Steve Rasnic Tem – The Night Doctor
Gary McMahon – Dull Fire
Reggie Oliver – The Book And The Ring
Alison Moore – Eastmouth
Robert Shearman – Carry Within Some Small Slither Of Me
Conrad Williams – The Devil’s Interval
Michael Marshall Smith – Stolen Kisses
Brian Hodge – Cures For A Sickened World
Angela Slatter – The October Window
Stephen Laws – The Slista
Rio Youers – Outside Heavenly
John Llewellyn Probert – The Life Inspector
Lisa Tuttle – Something Sinister In Sunlight
Nicholas Royle – This Video Does Not Exist
Stephen Volk – Newspaper Heart
Posted in *Spectral Press*, Mark Morris | Tagged: Alison Littlewood, Alison Moore, Angela Slatter, Brian Hodge, Conrad Williams, fiction, Gary McMahon, Helen Marshall, horror, John Llewellyn Probert, Lisa Tuttle, Mark Morris, Michael Marshall Smith, Nicholas Royle, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Rio Youers, Robert Shearman, Spectral Press), Stephen Laws, Stephen Volk, Steve Rasnic Tem, Tom Fletcher, Vault Of Evil, Vincent Cheong | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on January 31, 2014
Stephen Jones & David Sutton (eds.) – Dark Terrors 4 (Gollancz, 1998)

Les Edwards
Stephen Jones & David Sutton – Introduction
Richard Christian Matheson – The Great Fall
Christopher Fowler – Normal Life
Neil Gaiman – The Wedding Present
Ramsey Campbell – Never To Be Heard
Donald R. Burleson – Tumbleweeds
Stephen Baxter – Family History
David J. Schow – The Incredible True Facts In The Case
Roberta Lannes – Mr. Guidry’s Head
Dennis Etchison – Inside The Cackle Factory
Poppy Z. Brite – Entertaining Mr. Orton
Joel Lane – The Country Of Glass
Lisa Tuttle – My Pathology
Thomas Tessier – Curing Hitler
James Miller – Weak End
Jay Russell – Sullivan’s Travails
Conrad Williams – The Suicide Pit
Geoff Nicholson – Making Monsters
Michael Marshall Smith – A Place To Stay
Terry Lamsley – Suburban Blight
Posted in *Gollancz*, David Sutton, Stephen Jones | Tagged: *Gollancz*, Christopher Fowler, Conrad Williams, Dark Terrors, David J. Schow, David Sutton, Dennis Etchison, Donald R. Burleson, fiction, Geoff Nicholson, Hiorror, James Miller, Jay Russell, Joel Lane, Les Edwards, Lisa Tuttle, Michael Marshall Smith, Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Christian Matheson, Roberta Lannes, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Jones, Terry Lamsley, Thomas Tessier, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on January 24, 2014
Stephen Jones (ed.) – Psycho-Mania! (Robinson, Oct. 2013)

Les Edwards
Robert Bloch – Introduction
John Llewellyn Probert – Prologue: Screams In The Dark
Joe R. Lansdale – I Tell You It’s Love
Reggie Oliver – The Green Hour
Steve Rasnic Tem – The Secret Laws Of The Universe
Basil Copper – The Recompensing Of Albano Pizar
David A. Sutton – Night Soil Man
Brian Hodge – Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella
Scott Edelman – The Trembling Living Wire
John Llewellyn Probert – Case Conference #1
Robert Silverberg – The Undertaker’s Sideline
Joel Lane – The Long Shift
Brian Lumley – The Man Who Photographed Beardsley
Lisa Morton – Hollywood Hannah
Paul McAuley – I Spy
Mike Carey – Reflections On The Critical Process
David J. Schow – The Finger
Lawrence Block – Hot Eyes, Cold Eyes
Jay Russell – Hush … Hush, Sweet Shushie
John Llewellyn Probert – Case Conference #2
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Gatecrasher
Robert Shearman – That Tiny Flutter of The Heart I Used To Call Love
Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart
Dennis Etchison – Got To Kill Them All
Mark Morris – Essence
Michael Kelly – The Beach
Robert Bloch – Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper
John Llewellyn Probert – Case Conference #3
Ramsey Campbell – See How They Run
Conrad Williams – Manners
Christopher Fowler – Bryant & May And The Seven Points
Harlan Ellison® – All The Birds Come Home To Roost
Rio Youers – Wide Shining Light
Neil Gaiman – Feminine Endings
Peter Crowther – Eater
John Llewellyn Probert – Case Conference #4
Peter Crowther – Mr Mellor Comes To Wayside
Michael Marshall – Failure
Kim Newman – The Only Ending We Have
Richard Christian Matheson – Kriss Kross Applesauce
John Llewellyn Probert – Epilogue: A Little Piece Of Sanity
Case Notes
Blurb
WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES . . . When journalist Robert Stanhope arrives at the Crowsmoor asylum for the criminally insane to interview the institute’s enigmatic director, Dr Lionel Parrish, little does he realise that an apparently simple series of tests will lead him into a terrifying world of murder and insanity . . . In this chilling new anthology, compiled by multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones, some of the biggest and brightest name in horror and crime fiction come together to bring you twisted tales of psychos, schizoids and serial-killers, many with a supernatural twist. Reggie Oliver revives Edgar Allan Poe’s wily French detective C. Auguste Dupin, there is a new “Bryant & May” London mystery from Christopher Fowler, child actor turned private eye Marty Burns investigates a quirky Hollywood case by Jay Russell, and international best-selling author Michael Marshall returns to The Straw Men conspiracy. With a never-before-published Introduction by Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), along with one of his most famous and iconic stories, this volume also features an original wraparound sequence in the style of the author by John Llewellyn Probert. Add classic reprints by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper and Dennis Etchison, along with original fiction by Peter Crowther, Brian Hodge, Richard Christian Matheson, Paul McAuley, Lisa Morton, Robert Shearman, Steve Rasnic Tem and many others, and you would have to be out of your mind not to take a stab at these stories!
Posted in "Constable-Robinson*, *Constable/Robinson*, Stephen Jones | Tagged: Basil Copper, Brian Hodge, Brian Lumley, Christopher Fowler, Conrad Williams, Constable, David A. Sutton, David J. Schow, Dennis Etchison, edgar allan poe, Harlan Ellison, horror, Jay Russell, Joe R. Lansdale, Joel Lane, John Llewellyn Probert, Kim Newman, Lawrence Block, Les Edwards, Lisa Morton, Mark Morris, Michael Kelly, Michael Marshall, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Paul McAuley, Peter Crowther, Psycho-Mania!, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Richard Christian Matheson, Rio Youers - Wide Shining Light, Robert Bloch, Robert Shearman, Robert Silverberg, Robinson, Scott Edelman, Stephen Jones, Steve Rasnic Tem, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on August 25, 2012
Coming soon ….
Stephen Jones (ed.) – Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 23 (Robinson, Oct. 2012)

Cover Illustration: Vincent Chong
Stephen Jones – Introduction: Horror In 2011
Ramsey Campbell – Holding The Light
Christopher Fowler – Lantern Jack
Paul Kane – Rag And Bone
Gemma Files – Some Kind Of Light Shines From Your Face
Joel Lane – Midnight Flight
Tim Lebbon – Trick Of The Light
Gregory Nicoll – But None Shall Sing For Me
Alison Littlewood – About The Dark
Daniel Mills – The Photographer’s Tale
Mark Samuels – The Tower
Peter Atkins – Dancing Like We’re Dumb
Simon Strantzas – An Indelible Stain Upon The Sky
Joan Aiken – Hair
Steve Rasnic Tem – Miri
Geeta Roopnarine – Corbeaux Bay
Michael Marshall Smith – Sad, Dark Thing
Robert Silverberg – Smithers And The Ghost Of The Thar
Reggie Oliver – Quieta Non Movere
Joe R. Lansdale – The Crawling Sky
Conrad Williams – Wait
Simon Kurt Unsworth – The Ocean Grand, North West Coast
Evangeline Walton – They That Have Wings
Thana Niveau – White Roses, Bloody Silk
John Ajivide Lindqvist – The Music Of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer
Ramsey Campbell – Passing Through Peacehaven
David Buchan – Holiday Home
Stephen Jones & Kim Newman – Necrology: 2011
Blurb
The latest volume of the world’s longest-running annual showcase of Horror and Dark Fantasy fiction.
Presenting a selection of the very best, and most chilling, short stories and novellas of horror and the supernatural by both established masters of horror and exciting newcomers.
See also the Best New Horror 23 thread on the Vault forum
Posted in "Constable-Robinson*, *Constable/Robinson*, Stephen Jones | Tagged: Alison Littlewood, Best New Horror, Christopher Fowler, Conrad Williams, Daniel Mills, David Buchan, Evangeline Walton, fiction, Geeta Roopnarine, Gemma Files, Gregory Nicoll, Joan Aiken, Joe R. Lansdale, Joel Lane, John Ajivide Lindqvist, Kim Newman, Mark Samuels, Michael Marshall Smith, Paul Kane, Peter Atkins, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Robert Silverberg, Robinson, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Simon Strantzas, Stephen Jones, Steve Rasnic Tem, Thana Niveau, Tim Lebbon, Vault Of Evil, Vincent Chong | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on April 27, 2012
Paul Kane & Marie O’Regan – The Mammoth Book Of Body Horror (Robinson, 2012)

Cover design: Carlos Castro
Stuart Gordon – Introduction
Mary Shelley – Transformation
Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart
H. P. Lovecraft – Herbert West: Re-Animator
John W. Campbell – Who Goes There?
George Langelaan – The Fly
Richard Matheson – ‘Tis The Season To Be Jelly
Stephen King – Survivor Type
Clive Barker – The Body Politic
Robert Bloch – The Chaney Legacy
Ramsey Campbell – The Other Side
Brian Lumley – Fruiting Bodies
Nancy A. Collins – Freaktent
Richard Christian Matheson – Regions Of The Flesh
Michael Marshall Smith – Walking Wounded
Neil Gaiman – Changes
James Herbert – Others
Christopher Fowler – The Look
Alice Henderson – Residue
Graham Masterton – Dog Days
Gemma Files – Black Box
Simon Clark – The Soaring Dead
Barbie Wilde – Polyp
David Moody – Almost Forever
Axelle Carolyn – Butterfly
Conrad Williams – Sticky Eye
Back cover blurb:
25 horrific tales of TRANSFORMATION, MUTATION and CONTAGION
This truly disturbing collection of ‘body horror’ ranges from Mary Shelley’s revelatory ‘Transformation’ to H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West: Re-Animator’, brought to a new audience by the success of Stuart Gordon’s film ‘Re-Animator’, to George Langelaan’s ‘The Fly’, filmed most recently by David Cronenberg, and a chilling story by Lovecraft’s disciple, Robert Bloch, best known as the author of Psycho.
The term ‘body horror’ has long been used to describe films such as The Thing, based on John W. Campbell’s ‘Who Goes There?’, which is reprinted here, and most recently District 9, but the subgenre did not begin with film.
Here you will find profoundly unsettling stories spanning the entire history of the subgenre by the very best writers of horror ….
Posted in *Constable/Robinson*, Paul Kane & Marie O'Regan | Tagged: Alice Henderson, Axelle Carolyn, Barbie Wilde, Body Horror, Brian Lumley, Carlos Castro, Christopher Fowler, Clive Barker, Conrad Williams, David Moody, edgar allan poe, fiction, Gemma Files, George Langelaan, Graham Masterton, H. P. Lovecraft, horror, James Herbert, John W. Campbell, Marie O'Regan, Mary Shelley, Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy A. Collins, Neil Gaiman, paperback, Paul Kane, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robinson, Simon Clark, Stephen King, Stuart Gordon, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on October 31, 2011
Johnny Mains (ed.) – Bite Sized Horror (Obverse Books, June 2011)

Cover artwork: Paul Hanley
Johnny Mains – Introduction
Reggie Oliver – Brighton Redemption
Paul Kane – The Between
David A. Riley – His Pale Blue Eyes
Marie O’ Regan – The Unquiet Bones
Johnny Mains – The Rookery
Conrad Williams – The Carbon Heart
Blurb
BITE SIZED HORROR … delivers enough unease, terror, horror and revulsion – the full range of unpleasant associations associated with dark fiction – to please most readers. – Brendon Moody, The Stars At Noonday
see also the Bite Sized Horror thread on the Vault forum
Posted in *Obverse*, John Mains, Uncategorized | Tagged: Conrad Williams, David A. Riley, Johnny Mains, Marie O’ Regan, Obverse Books, Obverse Quarterly, paperback, Paul Hanley, Paul Kane, Reggie Oliver, Vault Of Evil | 1 Comment »