Posts Tagged ‘Mike Ashley’
Posted by demonik on May 21, 2019
Mike Ashley [ed.] – The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways (British Library, 2019)
Enrique Bernardou
Mike Ashley – Introduction
Departures in the Light:
Victor L. Whitechurch – The Strange Story of Engine Number 651
Zoe Dana Underhill – The Conductor’s Story
Anonymous – A Desperate Run
W. G. Kelly – A Smoking Ghost
L. G. Moberby – A Strange Night
Huan Mee – The Tragedy in the Train
Mary Louisa Molesworth – The Man with the Cough
Perceval Landon – Tailhead
Edgar Wallace – The Barford Snake
Dinah Castle – A Ghost on the Train
Approaches in the Dark:
Rosemary Timperley – The Underground People
T. G. Jackson – A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube
E. F. Benson – In The Tube
A. J. Deutsch – A Subway Named Möbius
Michael Vincent – The Last Train
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Underground
Return to the Light?
F. Scott Fitzgerald – A Short Trip Home
Ramsey Campbell – The Companion
Blurb:
The Platform Edge is a collection of the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks.
In this express service into the unknown, passengers join the jostling of the daily commute, a subway car disappears into another dimension without a trace, while a tragic derailment on a lonely hillside in the Alps torments the locals with its nightly repetition.
From the open railways of Europe and America to the pressing dark of the London Underground, The Platform Edge is the perfect travelling companion for unforgettable journeys into the supernatural.
Posted in *British Library*, Mike Ashley | Tagged: *British Library*, A. J. Deutsch, Anonymous, Dinah Castle, E. F. Benson, Edgar Wallace, Enrique Bernardou, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Huan Mee, L. G. Moberby, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Michael Vincent, Mike Ashley, Perceval Landon, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell, Rosemary Timperley, T. G. Jackson, Vault Of Evil, Victor L. Whitechurch, W. G. Kelly, Zoe Dana Underhill | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on May 21, 2019
Mike Ashley [ed.] – Doorway To Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy (British Library, 2019)
Mauricio Villamayer
Mike Ashley – Introduction
Fitz- James O’ Brien – What Was It?
Morley Roberts – The Anticipator
Frank R. Stockton – The Lady, or the Tiger?
Frank R. Stockton – The Discourager of Hesitancy
Arthur Machen – The White People
Mary E. Wilkins – The Prism
Cleveland Moffat – The Mysterious Card
Cleveland Moffat – The Mysterious Card Unveiled
H. G. Wells – A Moonlight Fable
Catherine Wells – Fear
Madeline Yale Wynne – The Little Room
Madeline Yale Wynne – The Sequel to the Little Room
David H. Keller – The Thing in the Cellar
Thomas Burke – Johnson Looked Back” – THOMAS BURKE
Muriel Campbell Dyar – The Woman in Red
Muriel Campbell Dyar – Unmasked
Lucy Clifford – The New Mother
Lord Dunsany – The Hoard of the Gibbelins
Mary E. Counselman – The Three Marked Pennies
Blurb:
“The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared to meet with an unusual amount of incredulity and scorn…”
Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where the weird prevails and accounts of unanswerable dilemma find their home. Gathered within these pages are twisted yarns, encounters with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to perplex and beguile.
So join us as we journey across the threshold, deep into the Library’s vaults where nineteen deliciously dark and totally dumbfounding stories await. These tales, plucked from long-lost literary magazines and anthologies spring to life again to embody this most mesmerising of genres.
About the author: Mike Ashley is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction with a specialism in the rare and forgotten short fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His Tales of the Weird anthologies include Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways.
Posted in *British Library*, Mike Ashley | Tagged: *British Library*, Arthur Machen, Catherine Wells, Cleveland Moffat, David H. Keller, Fitz- James O' Brien, Frank R. Stockton, H G Wells, Lord Dunsany, Lucy Clifford, Madeline Yale Wynne, Mary E. Counselman, Mary E. Wilkins, Mauricio Villamayer, Mike Ashley, Morley Roberts, Muriel Campbell Dyar, Thomas Burke, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on May 21, 2019
Mike Ashley [ed.] – Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories (British Library, 2018)
Mike Ashley – Introduction
Hugh E. Wright – On the Embankment
Elsie Norris – The Mystery of the Gables
Austin Philips – The Missing Word
Huan Mee – Phantom Death
Firth Scott – The Wraith of the Rapier
James Barr – The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli
Jack Edwards – Haunted!
Percy James Brebner – Our Strange Traveller
Guy Thorne – A Regent of Love Rhymes
Francis Xavier – Amid the Trees
Mary Schultze – The River’s Edge
Mary Reynolds – A Futile Ghost
Lumley Deakin – Ghosts
Elizabeth Jordan – Kearney
Philippa Forest – When Spirits Steal
Eric Purves – The House of the Black Evil
E. F. Benson – The Woman in the Veil
F. Britten Austin – The Treasure of the Tombs
Blurb:
A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance: the last transmission at a dying man haunts the airwaves, seeking to reveal his murderer; a treasure hunt disturbs an ancient presence in the silence of a lost tomb…
From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never before republished supernatural fiction from the early 20th century.
Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager to possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians — a diverse host of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and newspaper serials to thrill once more.
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than one hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. He is series consultant for British Library Science Fiction Classics and his books include Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.
Posted in *British Library*, *Publishers, Mike Ashley | Tagged: *British Library*, Austin Philips, E. F. Benson, Elizabeth Jordan, Elsie Norris, Eric Purves, F. Britten Austin, Firth Scott, Francis Xavier, Ghost Stories, Guy Thorne, Huan Mee, Hugh E. Wright, Jack Edwards, James Barr, Lumley Deakin, Mary Reynolds, Mary Schultze, Mike Ashley, Percy James Brebner, Philippa Forest, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on February 18, 2013
Mike Ashley (ed.) – The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Woman (Peter Owen, 2009)
Introduction
L.T. Meade – The Blue Laboratory
Mary Shelley – The Mortal Immortal
Harriet Prescott Spofford – The Moonstone Mass
Alice W. Fuller – A Wife Manufactured to Order
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Good Lady Ducayne
Mary Wilkins Freeman – The Hall Bedroom
G.M. Barrows – The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar
Roquia Sakhawat Hossein – The Sultana’s Dream
Edith Nisbet – The Five Senses
Clotilde Graves – Lady Clanbevan’s Baby
Muriel Pollexfen – Monsieur Fly-by-Night
Greye La Spina – The Ultimate Ingredient
Clare Winger Harris – The Miracle of the Lily
Adeline Knapp – The Earth Slept: A Vision
Thanks to James Doig for putting me on to this one!
Posted in *Peter Owen*, Mike Ashley | Tagged: Alice W. Fuller, Clare Winger Harris Adeline Knapp, Clotilde Graves, Edith Nisbet, fantasy, fiction, G.M. Barrows, Greye La Spina, Harriet Prescott Spofford, horror, James Doig, L. T. Meade, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Shelley, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mike Ashley, Muriel Pollexfen, Peter Owen, Roquia Sakhawat Hossein, SF, Vault Of Evil, women | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on February 6, 2011
Mike Ashley (ed.) – The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and the Macabre by Victorian Women Writers (Peter Owen, 2009)
Arthur Watts
Emily Bronte – The Palace of Death
Elizabeth Gaskell – The Old Nurse’s Story
Mary E Braddon – The Shadow in the Corner
Charlotte Riddell – Nut Bush Farm
Mary E Penn – The Tenant of The Cedars
Louisa Baldwin – Sir Nigel Otterburne’s Case
Mary Wilkins Freeman – Luella Miller
Violet Quirk – The Three Kisses
Edith Nesbit – The Third Drug
George Elliot – The Lifted Veil
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps – The Presence
thanks to Sara of the very beautiful My Love Haunted Heart blog for providing the details for this one!
Posted in *Peter Owen*, Mike Ashley | Tagged: Arthur Watts, Charlotte Riddell, E. Nesbit, Edith Nesbit, Elizabeth Gaskell. Mary E Braddon, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Emily Bronte, fiction, George Elliot, horror, Louisa Baldwin, Macabre, Mary E. Penn, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mike Ashley, My Love Haunted Heart, Peter Owen, Sara, Supernatural, Vault Of Evil, Victorian, Violet Quirk | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on September 25, 2009
Stephen Jones (ed.) – Dancing With The Dark: True Encounters With The Paranormal By Masters Of The Macabre (Vista, 1997)
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Cover by Splash: Photography by Simon Marsden
Stephen Jones – Introduction: Dancing with the Dark
Joan Aiken – My Feeling about Ghosts
Sarah Ash – Timeswitch
Mike Ashley – The Rustle in the Grass
Peter Atkins – Take Care of Grandma
Clive Barker – Life After Death
Stephen Baxter – The Cartographer
Robert Bloch – Not Quite So Pragmatic .
Ramsey Campbell – The Nearest to a Ghost
Hugh B. Cave – Haitian Mystères
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – One-Way Trip
A. E. Coppard – The Shock of the Macabre
Basil Copper – The Haunted Hotel
Peter Crowther – Safe Arrival
Jack Dann – A Gift of Eagles
Charles de Lint – The House on Spadina
Terry Dowling – Sharing with Strangers
Lionel Fanthorpe – Hands on the Wheel
Esther M. Friesner – That Old School Spirit
Gregory Frost – Twice Encountered
Neil Gaiman – The Flints of Memory Lane
Stephen Gallagher – In There
Ray Garton – Haunted in the Head
John Gordon – The House on the Brink
Ed Gorman – Riding the Nightwinds
Elizabeth Goudge – ESP
Simon R. Green – Death is a Lady
Peter Haining – The Smoke Ghost
Joe Haldeman – Never Say Die
James Herbert – Not Very Psychic
Brian Hodge – Confessions of a Born-Again Heathen
Nancy Holder – To Pine with Fear and Sorrow
M. R. James – A Ghostly Cry
Peter James – One Extra for Dinner
Mike Jefferies – A Face in the Crowd
Nancy Kilpatrick – Raggedy Ann
Stephen King – Uncle Clayton
Hugh Lamb – Go On, Open Your Eyes…
Terry Lamsley – Moving Houses
John Landis – Inspiration
Stephen Laws – Norfolk Nightmare
Samantha Lee – Not Funny
Barry B. Longyear – The Gray Ghost
H. P. Lovecraft – Witch House
Brian Lumley – The Challenge
Arthur Machen – World of the Senses
Graham Masterton – My Grandfather’s House
Richard Matheson – More Than We Appear To Be
Richard Christian Matheson – Visit to a Psychic Surgeon
Paul J. McAuley – The Fall of the Wires
Anne McCaffrey – Unto the Third Generation
Thomas F. Monteleone – Talkin’ Them Marble Orchard Blues
Mark Morris – A Shadow of Tomorrow
Yvonne Navarro – The House on Chadwell Drive
William F. Nolan – The Floating Table and the Jumping Violet
Edgar Allan Poe – Mesmeric Revelation
Vincent Price – In the Clouds
Alan Rodgers – Clinic-Modern
Nicholas Royle – Magical Thinking
Jay Russell – De Cold, Cold Décolletage
Adam Simon – The Darkness Between the Frames
Guy N. Smith – The Mist People
Michael Marshall Smith – Mr Cat
S. P. Somtow – In the Realm of the Spirits
Brian Stableford – Chacun sa Goule
Laurence Staig – The Spirit of M. R. James
Peter Tremayne – The Family Curse
H. R. Wakefield – The Red Lodge
Lawrence Watt-Evans – My Haunted Home
Cherry Wilder – The Ghost Hunters
Chet Williamson – A Place Where a Head Would Rest
Paul F. Wilson – The Glowing Hand
Douglas E. Winter – Finding My Religion
Gene Wolfe – Kid Sister
A Spectral vision …. The sound of phantom footsteps … An experiment in astral projection ….. A childhood premonition of disaster …. Possession by a voodoo god ….
An Ouija board that predicted death … A body kept alive by force of will ….. A cursed family name …
Such tales as these are more usually associated with horror books and movies. However, these anecdotes are absolutely true! They are ,just a sample of the real-life experiences recounted by some of the world’s most famous frighteners, from such bestselling authors as Stephen King and James Herbert, to actor Vincent Price and director John Landis.
Collected together for the very first time, many or the most successful and well-known exponents, along with rising stars of the horror field, relate their fascinating encounters with the supernatural, revealing how such unique experiences have affected their lives and influenced their works.
Even for the experts, when it comes to Unexplained phenomena, fact can be much more frightening than fiction …
See also Dancing With the Dark thread on Vault Of Evil
Thanks to Nightreader!
Posted in *Vista*, Stephen Jones | Tagged: *Vista*, A. E. Coppard, Adam Simon, Alan Rodgers, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur Machen, Barry B. Longyear, Basil Copper, Brian Hodge, Brian Lumley, Brian Stableford, Charles de Lint, Cherry Wilder, Chet Williamson, Clive Barker, Douglas E. Winter, Ed Gorman, edgar allan poe, Elizabeth Goudge, Esther M. Friesner, Gene Wolfe, Ghosts, Graham Masterton, Gregory Frost, Guy N. Smith - The Mist People, H. P. Lovecraft, H. R. Wakefield, Hugh B. Cave, Hugh Lamb, Jack Dann, James Herbert, Jay Russell, Joan Aiken, Joe Haldeman, John Gordon, John Landis, Laurence Staig, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Lionel Fanthorpe, M. R. James, Mark Morris, Michael Marshall Smith, Mike Ashley, Mike Jefferies, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Neil Gaiman, Nicholas Royle, non-fiction, Paul F. Wilson, Paul J. McAuley, Peter Atkins, Peter Crowther, Peter Haining, Peter James, Peter Tremayne, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, S. P. Somtow, Samantha Lee, Sarah Ash, Simon R. Green, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Gallagher, Stephen Jones, Stephen King, Stephen Laws, Terry Dowling, Terry Lamsley, Thomas F. Monteleone, True Ghost Stories, Vault Of Evil, Vincent Price, William F. Nolan, Yvonne Navarro | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on February 26, 2008
Justin Marriott (ed.) – Paperback Fanatic # 6 (Feb. 2008)
Peter Haining interview – long chat with the late Peter Haining about his trail-blazing days at the New English Library fiction factory. Discusses authors such as Jim Moffatt, Terry Harknett and Chris Priest, and books such as Skinhead, Chopper and Edge.
Haining’s Web of Terror- noted genre expert Mike Ashley’s dissection of Peter’s classic horror anthologies
Sexton Blake and The Guardians- Andy Boot’s investigation into the murky world of Bill Baker’s Press Editorial. Great stuff for any fan of 1960s pulp!
Philip Harbottle’s Vision of Tomorrow- how did the excellent SF mag Vision fail? Editor Phil reveals the inside story on the rise and fall of the UK’s only SF mag of the early 1970s.
Plus- Robert E Howard in UK paperback, NEL and the Mafia, letters, updates and reviews. 44 A4 pages.
Cover price £3.95, post-free to members of this site. Payment by paypal – details at Paperback Fanatic
This has just this minute arrived but see the Vault thread for comment on the mighty Paperback Fanatic # 6
Posted in Paperback Fanatic, Peter Haining, Vault Product Placement | Tagged: Andy Boot, Jim Moffat, Justin Marriott, Laurence James, Mike Ashley, new english library, Paperback Dungeon, Paperback Fanatic, Peter Haining, Philip Harbottle, Pulp Mania, Terry Harknett | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on August 31, 2007
Posted in anthologists A-Z | Tagged: Allyson Bird & Joel Lane, Angus Black, Anonymous, Charles Birkin, Charles Black, Chris Baldick, Christine Barnard, Dave Allen, David Blair, Denys Val Baker, John Burke, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Margaret Armour, Marjorie Bowen, Mike Ashley, Peter Haining, Randolph C. Bull, Ric Alexander, Robert Aickman, Robert Morrison | Leave a Comment »
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