Horrors 2: cover reveal

Here’s an early peek at the cover for The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2, due spring 2020:

Cover art and design by Peter Coleborn. And a reminder of the ToC:

• Gail-Nina Anderson          Henrietta Street
• Sarah Ash                        I Left My Fair Homeland
• Debbie Bennett                I Remember Everything
• Mike Chinn                       Digging in the Dirt
• Paul Finch                        What Did You See
• Sharon Gosling                Every Bad Thing
• John Grant                       The Loneliest Place
• John Howard                    The Primordial Light
• Tim Jeffreys                      Black Nore
• Eyglo Karlsdottir               Footprints in the Snow
• Nancy Kilpatrick               Promises
• Garry Kilworth                  Lirpaloof Island
• Samantha Lee                 The Secret Place
• Pauline Morgan               Beneath Namibian Sands
• Thana Niveau                  The Hate Whisperer
• John Llewellyn Probert    Hydrophobia
• Peter Sutton                    We Do Like to Be Beside

Once again internal artwork by Jim Pitts.

 

 

 

Horrors 2 — table of contents

We are delighted to announce the contents for the forthcoming Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2, the follow up to last year’s acclaimed anthology. Alphabetically:

• Gail-Nina Anderson           Henrietta Street
• Sarah Ash                          I Left My Fair Homeland
• Debbie Bennett                  I Remember Everything
• Mike Chinn                         Digging in the Dirt
• Paul Finch                          What Did You See
• Sharon Gosling                 Every Bad Thing
• John Grant                         The Loneliest Place
• John Howard                      The Primordial Light
• Tim Jeffreys                        Black Nore
• Eyglo Karlsdottir                 Footprints in the Snow
• Nancy Kilpatrick                 Promises
• Gary Kilworth                     Lirpaloof Island
• Samantha Lee                   The Secret Place
• Pauline Morgan                 Beneath Namibian Sands
• Thana Niveau                    The Hate Whisperer
• John Llewellyn Probert      Hydrophobia
• Peter Sutton                      We Do Like to Be Beside

Once again internal artwork by Jim Pitts.

The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2, edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards, is scheduled for a spring 2020 publication.

Horrors on offer

The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors is available from Amazon for the remarkably low price of £6.42. Not sure how long it will stay at this level — so get over there quick by clicking here.

Twenty-five tales of horror and the weird, stories that encapsulate the dark, the desolate and the downright creepy. Stories that will send that quiver of anticipation and dread down your spine and stay with you long after the lights have gone out.

Who is Len Binn, a comedian or something worse? What secrets are locked away in Le Trénébreuse? The deadline for what? Who are the little people, the garbage men, the peelers? What lies behind the masks? And what horrors are found down along the backroads?

With stories by Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Stephen Laws, Samantha Lee, Stan Nicholls, Tony Richards and many, many others.

 

Horrors Reviewed

There’s a rather wonderful review of The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors in the latest issue (number 9) of Phantasmagoria Magazine:

…It is definitely one of the best anthologies I have come across for quite some time and I would highly recommend it… If the stories weren’t enough, the book is also illustrated throughout with finely drawn headers for each of the stories by the talented Jim Pitts, adding that extra touch of quality to this book…

Read the full review here (scroll down the page to read it).

 

 

Mentioned in Dispatches

In his annual roundup of the year’s best horror books, that fine writer Tom Johnstone mentions The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors. He says:

 …this is a very strong example of that rare thing these days: a non-themed horror anthology, though the accent is very much on the weird and the strange rather than pure horror, but that’s no bad thing. There are some gems here…

Read Tom’s full round up on his blog, here.

 

 

The Window is Closed

The submission window for The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2 has now closed. We’ve received over 120 submissions which we will now start reading. Please bear with us. In the meantime, we have replied to all submissions acknowledging your story. If you haven’t heard from us please get in touch.

 

Submissions to Horrors 2

We’ve received many submissions to The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2 so far,and they continue to arrive everyday. We try to acknowledge these within a day or so. Unfortunately we are a bit behind schedule but hope to acknowledge all in due course. If you haven’t heard from us within a week of the submission window closing (at the end of this month) please email us.