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 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.

 

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.

 

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.