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.

 

New Year wishes

The Alchemy Press wishes everyone a fantastic 2019. Let’s hope it’s a good one.

Meanwhile, please note that the current Alchemy Press book sale will end on 31st January 2019. See previous post.

 

Compromising the Truth reviewed

Compromising the Truth by Bryn Fortey has received a tremendous review on Andrew Darlington’s website, Eight Miles Higher.

These are storyteller’s tales that both rip into your mind like fishhooks and soak into your consciousness like high-grade toxic bootleg hooch, then hang around like the earworm hook you can never get rid of, leaving aftertastes of joy. Bryn plays games that tie truth into conundrums, beguiling anecdotes, unreliable memory or alternate worlds of sly wonder.

Visit Andrew’s website (see above for link) to read the full review.

 

Scattershot Writing

That fine connoisseur of horror fiction, James Everington, has selected five stories from The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors among his picks from 2018. You can see the selection on James’ Scattershot Writing website. The five stories he selects are those by Ramsey Campbell, Cate Gardner, Ralph Robert Moore, Marie O’Regan and Madhvi Ramani. Well done … but we at Alchemy wish to state, categorically, that we love all 25 tales in the anthology. Horrors is available in print and eBook (various formats) versions.

By the way, a quick reminder: the submission window for volume two of Horrors runs throughout January 2019. The above image is the possible/probable cover for the book.