Nicholas Royle is the author of more than a hundred and fifty short stories. He has published one short story collection, Mortality, two novellas – The Appetite and The Enigma of Departure – and six novels including Counterparts, Antwerp and Regicide. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and reviews fiction for the Independent and the Warwick Review. His small press, Nightjar Press, publishes original short stories in a gothic/uncanny vein as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. Forthcoming from Two Ravens Press is Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds, which he has edited, and from No Exit Press a new collection of his London stories.
Robert Shearman is probably best known for writing that episode that brought the Daleks back to the revived series of Doctor Who, but ever since then he’s been trying desperately to channel his silliness into short stories instead. His first collection, Tiny Deaths, won the World Fantasy Award, and the second, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, picked up the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Readers Prize. His latest, Everyone’s Just So So Special, published by Big Finish, is so new and fresh that Rob can’t stop stroking the cover. He has written two series of the interactive BBC radio series Chain Gang, both of which won Sony Awards; the third series begins in the New Year. He is currently writer-in-residence at Edinburgh Napier University.
Lisa Tuttle made her first professional sale forty years ago, with the short story ‘Stranger in the House’ – now the opening entry in Stranger in the House, Volume One of her collected supernatural fiction, published by Ash-Tree Press. Perhaps best known for her short fiction, which includes the International Horror Guild Award-winning ‘Closet Dreams,’ she is also the author of several novels, including The Pillow Friend, The Mysteries and The Silver Bough, as well as books for children, and non-fiction works. Although born and raised in America, she has been a British resident for the past three decades, and currently lives with her family in Scotland.
Stephen Volk was the creator of the award-winning TV drama series Afterlife and the notorious BBCTV ‘Halloween hoax’ Ghostwatch. His latest feature film (co-written by director Nick Murphy) is The Awakening, a supernatural mystery starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton, while his other movie credits include Ken Russell’s Gothic and The Guardian, co-written with its director William Friedkin.He has also written for Channel Four’s Shockers and won a BAFTA for The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans. His short stories and novellas, a selection of which are collected in Dark Corners (Gray Friar Press), have so far earned him nominations for the British Fantasy Award, HWA Bram Stoker Award, and Shirley Jackson Award, plus appearances in several ‘Best of’ anthologies. He can be found online at www.stephenvolk.net.
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Contents
Introduction
Objects in Dreams may be Closer than they Appear, Lisa Tuttle
Pied-à-terre, Stephen Volk
In the Absence of Murdock, Terry Lamsley
Florrie, Adam L. G. Nevill
Driving the Milky Way, Weston Ochse
The Windmill, Rebecca Levene
Moretta, Garry Kilworth
Hortus Conclusus, Chaz Brenchley
The Dark Space in the House in the House in the Garden at the Centre of the World, Robert Shearman
The Muse of Copenhagen, Nina Allan
An Injustice, Christopher Fowler
The Room Upstairs, Sarah Pinborough
Villanova, Paul Meloy
Widow's Weeds, Christopher Priest
The Doll's House, Jonathan Green
Inside/Out, Nicholas Royle
The House, Eric Brown
Trick of the Light, Tim Lebbon
What Happened to Me, Joe R. Lansdale
About the Authors
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