Best Horror of the Year

Every year sees a new volume in the Ellen Datlow-edited Best Horror of the Year series. The 2019 edition (volume 11), with a terrific cover by Audrey Benjaminsen, features work first published in 2018.

There are over 20 stories in this volume including “Masks” by Peter Sutton, from the pages of The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors. In her introduction, this is what Ellen says of Horrors:

In addition, Ellen lists the full recommended reading list on her blog (it’s in four parts). It includes nine stories from Horrors!

 

Compromising the Truth reviewed

Sam Smith has reviewed Compromising the Truth by Bryn Fortey. He says: “The sign of a good writer: Bryn had me both laughing and in tears, and a couple of times grimacing as I compulsively read on…”

Read Sam’s full review on his blog. Or here.

 

 

Horrors 1 reviewed on Goodreads

This review seemed to have passed us by — it appeared earlier this year on Goodreads. Pamela Scott says: “This collection (The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors) contains some of the best horror fiction I’ve read in ages … It’s great to read an anthology where you love every story in it. There tends to be a mixture of brilliant stores, good stories, okay ones and a couple that aren’t so good. I loved every story in this collection. The stories all fit into the ‘horror’ category, more or less. I loved how diverse and different the stories are. There are no two alike. I especially enjoyed Down Along The Backroads by Jenny Barber, Guising by Gary McMahon, Masks by Peter Sutton and The Trade-Up by James Brogden.”

 

Horrors 1 reviewed by the BFS

The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors gets a lovely review on the British Fantasy Society’s website. The reviewer, H T Scott, says:

The thing about anthologies is that you get a plethora of diversity, which in my humble opinion is no bad thing. The Alchemy Press book of horrors doesn’t disappoint, with contributions from well-known names such as Ramsey Campbell, Samantha Lee, Mike Chinn, and Peter Sutton, there are also a few authors there that I have never read before. Anthologies are a good way to dip your toes in the shallows of someone’s writing, giving the reader, us, an idea of what to expect.should we want to read more of their work One thing is for sure, Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards have brought together some very talented people and every story in the book 100% deserves to be included.  Unthemed this collection takes the reader to some very dark places.

The full review can be found on the BFS website.

For more information on this book, click here.

 

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.