Horrors 2 ready to pre-order

Now available to pre-order from Amazon and other book dealers. The book will be launched at this year’s Stokercon horror convention, held in Scarborough, UK, in April.

The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors volume 2

Strange Stories & Weird Tales

Edited by Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards

Strange stories and weird tales and all of the creeping horrors in between. Horrors 2 features seventeen fabulous writers, including Sarah Ash, Paul Finch, John Grant, Nancy Kilpatrick, Garry Kilworth, Samantha Lee … to lead you on a spine-tingling tour from seaside towns to grimy cities, to the lonely and secret places, from the fourteenth precinct to Namibia … and so many places in between.

 

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 – pre-order now

The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors is now available to pre-order. The book will be launched at this year’s FantasyCon and then will be on general sale on 1st November. Available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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…? 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?

Check out the book’s page to see who are the 25 writers.

 

What’s in Horrors?

There was an avalanche of stories submitted to The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors – especially in the final month of the submission’s window. To be honest, we didn’t expect to receive around 310 manuscripts seeking a home in this anthology. We were worried that we’d have too few submissions.

We read the stories as soon as possible after receiving them (but as indicated, January was a particularly busy month), maintaining a database of comments in order to narrow down to a shortlist.

Yet we managed it quickly – and then the shortlist itself needed to be pruned, and even so we couldn’t cut back to the original idea: an anthology containing a dozen stories. So we succumbed and settled on 25 stories. Without further ado, in alphabetical order (alphabetically by first name that is!), here’s what you’ll be reading in the latter part of 2018.

• Adrian Cole: Broken Billy
• Cate Gardner: The Fullness of Her Belly
• Debbie Bennett: The Fairest of them all
• Gail-Nina Anderson: An Eye for a Plastic Eye
• Gary McMahon: Guising
• James Brogden: The Trade-Up
• Jenny Barber: Down Along the Backroads
• John Grant: Too Late
• Keris McDonald: Remember, Remember
• Madhvi Ramani: Teufelsberg
• Marie O’Regan: Pretty Things
• Marion Pitman: The Apple Tree
• Mike Chinn: Her Favourite Place
• Peter Sutton: Masks
• Phil Sloman: The Girl with Three Eyes
• Ralph Robert Moore: Peelers
• Ramsey Campbell: Some Kind of a Laugh
• Ray Cluley: Bluey
• Samantha Lee: The Worm
• Stan Nicholls: Deadline
• Stephen Laws: Get Worse Soon
• Storm Constantine: La Tenebreuse
• Suzanne Barbieri: In the Rough
• Tina Rath: Little People
• Tony Richards: The Garbage Men

In addition, the book will be garnished with a range of Jim Pitt illustrations. We aim to make this book one you’ll treasure.

 

Pulp Heroes soon to go OOP

The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes, edited by Mike Chinn, is soon to be out of print. If you haven’t bagged yourself a copy now is the time to do so. You never know, used copies may be worth £££ or $$$ in future days.

Stories in the tradition of The Shadow, The Bat, Doc Savage, The Spider; Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Detective Agency; Dusty Ayers & His Battle Birds; Sheena and K-Zar. Hard-boiled detectives, sinister vigilantes, bizarre villains: the staples of the Pulp tradition. Two-fisted heroes – and heroines – fighting for right and justice in the midnight city, foetid jungles or exotic, far-flung lands. Deranged villains for whom the world is never enough.

Pulp Heroes is available from Amazon and other online bookshops.

 

Nick Nightmare price reduction

Nick Nightmare Investigates by Adrian Cole was published at £25. We are now selling it for £15 plus £3 p&p in the UK. We will add a correct PayPal button shortly, but in the interim please contact us using the contact form or via email: alchemypress [at] gmail [dot] com. Or pay via PayPal using this same e-address, stating the title you require.

And if you have two minutes, check out the promo video on YouTube.

 

 

Going for a song…

Some of The Alchemy Press’s limited edition hardcovers are going for a song via Amazon. Okay, not a song, as such … but we are selling brand new copies at a heavy discount. Now is a good time to buy the book you’ve been intending to read!

  

• Rumours of the Marvellous by Peter Atkins is now just £10.00 on Amazon.
• Where the Bodies are Buried by Kim Newman is only £5.00 on Amazon

  

• Swords against the Millennium edited by Mike Chinn is just £5.00 on Amazon
• Nick Nightmare Investigates by Adrian Cole is a mere £15.00 on Amazon

Don’t forget, these are all limited, signed hardcovers. And a warning: some of these books are in short supply so order them soon.

 

 

 

Alchemy collections

Here is a round up of Alchemy Press collections. As you can tell from the range of anthologies and collections we’ve published, we are a great fan of short fiction. Click on the image for further information on each title.

   

• Tell No Lies by John Grant
• Merry-Go-Round and Other Words by Bryn Forty

   

• Evocations by James Brogden
• Monsters by Paul Kane

Alchemy anthologies

Alchemy Press anthologies are available in print and eBook (Kindle) formats. Click on the titles for the relevant links — and fill your eReader with excitement, wonder, myth, horror and pulp heroics.

  

• The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders (Amazon UK / Amazon US)
• The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic (Amazon UK / Amazon US)
• The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2 (Amazon UK / Amazon US)

  

• The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes (Amazon UK / Amazon US)
• The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 2 (Amazon UK / Amazon US)
• The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 3 (Amazon UK / Amazon US)