Darrell Buxton [ed.] – Fifth BHF Book of Horror Stories (BHF, 2021)

Darrell Buxton [ed.] – Fifth BHF Book of Horror Stories (BHF, 2021)

Paul Mudie

Darrell Buxton – Introduction

Fritz Maitland – Stand And Deliver
Ian Taylor – 11:59
Sam Dawson – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Samantha Jayne Crosby – Angie Baby
Simon J. Ballard – Good Girl Gone Bad
Neil Pike – Welcome Home
Sam Dawson – The Village Green Preservation Society
Darrell Buxton – Memory Of A Free Festival
Andrew Llewellyn – Hamburger Lady
Jez Conolly – Dead Babies
Brian Gregory – Daniel
Wayne Mook – Two Seconds
Ian Millsted – Seasons In The Sun
Simon J. Ballard – Television Rules The Nation
Ian Taylor – The Passenger
Neil Pike – Fade To Grey
Ken Shinn – Nasty
Darrell Buxton – Disco Duck
Adam J. Marsh – Raspberry Beret
Sam Trafford – Carrie
Ian Taylor – Behind A Painted Smile
Nadia Mook – We Are The Pigs
Simon J. Ballard – The Chemistry Between Us
Paul Newman – Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Tony Earnshaw – Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Ken Shinn – The Laughing Gnome
Gary Couzens – The Party’s Over
Wayne Mook – Parklife
James Stanger – Diamond Lights
Susan York – Happy Birthday
Andrew Llewellyn – Martha My Dear
Jason D. Brawn – The Lady In Red
Selene Paxton-Brooks – Wuthering Heights
Tony Earnshaw – She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Lawrence Gordon Clark – Voices

Contributors

Interior illustrations: Jez Connelly, Sam Dawson, Brian Gregory, Andrew Llewellyn, Sam Trafford, Selene Paxton-Brooks, Mark Hetherington, Wayne Mook.

Blurb:

Welcome to your nightmare!

Late-night king of the airwaves encounters a disturbed and lonely listener with deranged thoughts on her mind …

Upper crust cricketers hit a sticky wicket when caught up In the ancient rites of a remote and hostile country village …

After giving a lift to a roadside hitch-hiker, an insurance broker discovers that his mystery passenger is a portent of disaster …

A couple’s new cottage is haunted by unseen presences — which only one of the pair can hear…

An all-new selection of macabre and creepy tales, and just for you music lovers we’ve named every single story after a song. It’s a mixtape from a mausoleum, in a place where the letters ‘D. J.’ stand for ‘Deadly Jeopardy’ and where ’18 with a bullet’ sends you down into the ground rather than up to the top ten. Press play, pump up the volume, and pray that you make it as far as the B-sides …

Darrell Buxton [ed.] – Fourth BHF Book of Horror Stories

Darrell Buxton [ed.] – Fourth BHF Book of Horror Stories (BHF, 2021)

Paul Mudie

Darrell Buxton – Introduction

Sam Dawson – Night Thoughts
Samantha Jayne Crosby – Carrion Screaming
Darrell Buxton – Hard Core
Ken Shinn – Starr Student
Franklin Marsh – The Night Bus
Tony Earnshaw – Protein
Ken Shinn – The Phoenix for the Flame
Simon J. Ballard – Vultura is Dead … and Well, and Living in London
Ian Taylor – Paging Dr. Death
Jez Conolly – Tea with Mrs. Hindley
Adam J. Marsh – Good Boy
Tony Earnshaw – By Dawn’s Early Light
Hannah Kate – Delivery
Sam Dawson – Gentry in the Country
Ken Shinn – The Little Red-Haired Girl
Paul Newman – The Endless Depths Above Us
Simon J. Ballard – The Making of Lord Courtley
Simon J. Ballard – The Making of Johnny Alucard
Wayne Mook – Frankenstein’s Tortoise
Martin Parsons – Calhoun Despairs
Ken Shinn – Glad It’s All Over
Selene Paxton-Brooks – Tansy’s Poppets
Jason D. Brawn – The Interview
Darrell Buxton – Luxuriate Effervescently
James Stanger – Just A Click and the Agony
Ken Shinn – A Bloody Nuisance
Ian Taylor – A Voodoo Flavour
Lawrence-Gordon Clark – Telling Stories

Contributors

Interior illustrations: Jez Connelly, Sam Dawson, Simon J. Ballard, Selene Paxton-Brooks, Mark Hetherington, Wayne Mook,

Blurb:

The moon is full … the witching hour approaches … time to devour sacrificial offerings anew!

Drug-induced paranoia brings familiar television figures to sinister life …
Something nasty dwells beneath the floorboards of a country cottage, awaiting the new tenants…
An unexpected postal delivery leads to the uncovering of an ancient vampire‘s legacy …
Strange surgical practices are employed to remove a deadly tumour – with post-op consequences …

Traumatizing new tales of terror emerge from the tomb! The weird world of British horror cinema inspires this latest collection of devilish and disturbing fiction, putting fresh spins on a cornucopia of chilling characters last glimpsed through the haze of late-night television or encountered at a menacing midnight movie marathon. Dare you venture beyond the silver screen, into a nightmarish new dimension bringing all your frightening favourites to the printed page?

Be brave, be bold … or be buried!

Darrell Buxton [ed] – 3rd BHF Book of Horror Stories

Darrell Buxton [ed] – 3rd BHF Book of Horror Stories  (BHF, Sept. 2020)

Paul Mudie

Darrell Buxton – Introduction

Richard Freeman – Cold Snap
Paul Newman – The Cold Hunger of Dead Wastelands
Tom Lee Rutter – Night of the Raven
Neil Pike – There’s No Businessss Like Showbusinessss
Darrell Buxton – Polish
Ian Taylor – An American Premonition in Lindos
Ken Shinn – Fattening Frogs for Snakes
W.R. McKay – The Connoisseur
Fritz Maitland – Death’s Head
James Stanger – The Half-Deads: The Third Chronicle of Pain
Tony Earnshaw – Special Weapons Division
Daniel McGachey – Last Departure from Hobbs End
Darrell Buxton – Mister Fixit
Eric McNaughton – It Could Have Been So Different…
Ken Shinn – A Modest Proposal
Wayne Mook – Mr Hillsings’ Dinner
Darrell Buxton – Good for the Soul
Ken Shinn – The Naked Ape: A Tale from the Monster Club
Paul Newman – Blood Ties
Martin Dallard – The Beast Must Live…!
Jolyon Yates – Cruelty Free
Darrell Buxton – The First Horror Movie
Samantha Crosby – Pillage of the Damned
Jez Conolly – Nuggets
Tony Earnshaw – Raw
Franklin Marsh – OfficeTech Intra-Personal Relationships Course – October 30th 11 p.m.
Darrell Buxton – Painting With Light
Martin Dallard – Eden: The Paradise That Never Was
Ian Taylor – Taking it Seriously
Ken Shinn – Incident Report: The Halley Incident
Nadia Mook – The Shop
Jason D. Brawn – Death and Loneliness
Neil Pike – Dog Star
Ian Millsted – A Hungarian Vampire in London
Ian Taylor – Minister of the Sinister

Contributors
Artist credits

Blurb:

It is time to keep your appointment…with Fear!
A notorious serial murderer survives to perpetuate his deadly deeds…
Monstrous childhood memories resurface to plague a troubled soul…
A newly opened cinema may he inhabited by the spectre of a vintage movie star – or possibly something worse…
Violent teenage gang members encounter an even more terrifying threat in the woods…

Vampires, zombies, ghouls, monsters, and all-too-human psychos step out of the screen and secrete themselves between the covers of our latest creepy collection – more than 30 terror tales to frighten even the hardiest horror hounds! These petrifying pages contain spine-chilling stories galore, each one a sinister spin on characters or situations from classic and cult British horror movies. Haunted by Hammer? Agitated by Amicus? Tormented by Tigon? Then step this way – you sound like our perfect victim, erm, reader ….

Available now via Lulu World Classics

Charles Black – 7th Black Book Of Horror

coming very soon from the mighty Mortbury Press!

Charles Black (ed.) – The Seventh Black Book Of Horror (Mortbury Press, September 2010)

Cover artwork: Paul Mudie

Thana Niveau – The Pier
Reggie Oliver – Minos Or Rhadamanthus
Joel Lane – Morning’s Echo
John Llewellyn Probert – It Begins at Home
Gary Power – Flitching’s Revenge
David Williamson – Rest In Pieces
Rog Pile – Walk To The Sea
David A. Riley – Romero’s Children
Paul Finch – The Green Bath
Steve Rasnic Tem – Telling
Stephen Volk – Swell Head
Alex Langley – Walking The Dyke
Anna Taborska – The Creaking
James Stanger – Bernard Bought The Farm
Claude Lalumière – Ted’s Collection
Craig Herbertson – New Teacher
Tony Richards – The In-Betweeners

see also the 7th Black Book of Horror thread on the Vault forum. It’s a stormer!

Roger Pile (ed.) – Filthy Creations #6

Roger Pile (ed.) – Filthy Creations #6 (July 2010)

Robert Mammone – The Devil At Your Heels
Penni McClaren Walker – Easy Money
D F Lewis – The Fat Shrike
Colin Leslie – Bad Manners
D F Lewis – Rage
Charles Black – Grey
Franklin Marsh – There’s a Riot Going On
James Stanger – Crocodile Tears
Stephen Bacon – A Solace Of Winter Rain
Craig Herbertson – The Death Tableau (Part 1)
David A Riley – Sendings (Part 1)
Rog Pile – Night Tide
Editor/ DTP stuff/ illustrations -Rog Pile
Consultative Editor – Coral King

Contact: The Workshop Of Filthy Creation (Forum)

Order: paypal

From The Workshop Of Filthy Creations #5

Rog Pile (ed.) – From The Workshop Of Filthy Creations #5 (October 2009)

Adrian Salmon

Rog Pile – Editorial
Franklin Marsh – Yukon
James Stanger – W.E.B.
D. F. Lewis – A Knight At The Opera
Noah Brown – A Surprise For Sarah
Rog Pile – Horror At The Sagebrush Hotel
P. F. Jeffery – Odalisque : The Grey Plain
Franklin Marsh – The Horror On Dreadstone Moor  (serrial finale)

Rog Pile – Crumpet On Board! The Thinking Man’s Crumpet Issue 1 Revisited!

Front cover and Horror At The Sagebrush Motel illustrations – Ade Salmon.  Other Illustrations – Rog Pile

DTP Stuff – Rog Pile;  Consultative Editor – Coral King

Dedicated to Charles Black. Particularly glad to see the classic Gregory Pendennis adventure, The Horror Of Dreadstone Moor, is finally available in its entirety, and that’s a tasty contributors list if past form is anything to go by. Details from Filthy Creations where you’ll also find work-in-progress versions of some of the stories.

Thanks to Franklin Marsh for supplying the contents list and cover scan.

Christopher Wood – 2nd BHF Book Of Horror

Christopher Wood (ed.) – 2nd BHF Book Of Horror (BHF Books, 2007)

Cover Painting: Paul Mudie

Paul Newman – In the Pipeline
Paul Adams – Show Home
Gareth Hopkins – Romero And Juliette
Derek Johnston – The Blood Field
Franklin Marsh – The Morris Men
Matt Finucane – It Is Written
Christopher L Jones – Home Truth
Martin J Parsons – Roast Beef
Rog Pile – Almost Love
Clare Hill – Clean Living
Paul Newman – Still Life
Charles Black – Separation
Christopher Wood – You Can’t Sing, You Can’t Dance, You Look Awful …You’ll Go A Long Way
Wayne Mook – A Little Dead Man On Clockchanges Road
Neil Christopher – When Hell Freezes Over
Mark Ferguson – The Passage
Gareth A Williams – Appeal
Maya McLaughlin – Obeahman
Franklin Marsh – A (Something) in Wardour Street
James Stanger – Jacob Raffles
S F Stewart – The Inn
Richard Cosgrove – Cattle
Franklin Marsh – The Darklands Hall Legacy
Neil Christopher – Cerberus Rising
James Brough – Crowd Scene
Carole Hall – Portrait Of A Young Woman
Thirteen Ravens – The Oxford Vampire
Mike Ward – The Sea Witch
Sam Dawson – Children Of The Summer’s End
Daniel McGachey – The Shadow In The Stacks
Jason P Burden – Understanding

Verse:

Nadia Mook – Tschaichowsky’s Lonely Sympathy
Matthew Entwistle – Out Beyond The Clearing
Matthew Entwistle – Tey
Matthew Entwistle – The Necromancer
Matthew Entwistle – A (Helpful) Warning To The Curious

Extract from forthcoming novel:

E H Bourne – Dead Weight

Christopher Wood – 1st First BHF Book Of Horror Stories

Christopher Wood (ed.) – The First BHF Book Of Horror Stories (BHF, 2006)

Paul Mudie

Christopher Wood – Introduction

John Reppion – Anthony Clarke Is Sick
Wendall McKay – Brierley Day
Albie Swain – Beneath You
Christopher Wood – Edward
Wayne Mook – Family Man
Billy Turner – Fresh Souls
Neil Christopher – Surface Tension
James Brough – The Man
Billy Turner – The Hermit
Matt Bowdler – The Case Of The Fragrant Phantom
Paul Newman – Storm Dog
Billy Turner – Sidney
Neil Christopher – Secret Recipe
Christopher Wood – Spaghetti Head
James Stanger – Beggar’s Banquet
Daniel McGachey – They That Dwell In Dark Places
Billy Turner – The Calling Of The Sea
James Brough – Quiet Desperation
Wendall McKay – Hotel Nalade

Artwork: Paul Mudie, Lawrence Bailey, Paula Fay

Blurb

Secret Recipe ….
Anthony Clarke Is Sick ….
Fresh Souls ….
They That Dwell In Dark Places ….
Storm Dog ….

The very titles suggest the sinister …. perhaps the horrible?

Correct. But there are other stories in this startling collection of tales by users of the British Horror Films web forum which may make your blood run even colder, may make your hair stand up even straighter …

19 stories of the fiendish and the fearful in the first volume of a terrifying series!