USEFUL ADDRESSES
THE FOLLOWING LISTING OF organisations, publications, dealers and individuals is designed to present readers and authors with further avenues to explore. Although I can personally recommend most of those listed on the following pages, neither the publisher nor myself can take any responsibility for the services they offer. Please also note that the information below is only a guide and is subject to change without notice.
—The Editor
ORGANISATIONS
The British Fantasy Society (www.britisbfantasysociety.org) was founded in 1971 and publishes the bi-monthly newsletter Prism and the magazine Dark Horizons, featuring articles, interviews and fiction, along with occasional special booklets. The BFS also enjoys a lively online community – there is an e-mail news-feed, a discussion board with numerous links, and a CyberStore selling various publications. FantasyCon is one of the UK’s friendliest conventions and there are social gatherings and meet-the-author events organised around Britain. For yearly membership details, e-mail: [email protected]. You can also join online through the Cyberstore.
The Friends of Arthur Machen (www.machensoc.demon.co.uk) is a group whose objectives include encouraging a wider recognition of Machen’s work and providing a focus for critical debate. Members get a hardbound journal, Faunus, twice a year, and also the informative newsletter Machenalia. For membership details, contact Jeremy Cantwell, FOAM Treasurer, Apt.5, 26 Hervey Road, Black-heath, London SE3 8BS, UK.
The Ghost Story Society (www.ash-tree.bc.ca/GSS.html) is organised by Barbara and Christopher Roden. They publish the superb All Hallows three times a year. For more information contact PO Box 1360, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada VOK 1A0. E-mail: [email protected].
The Horror Writers Association (www.horror.org) is a worldwide organisation of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of writers of Horror and Dark Fantasy. It was formed in the early 1980s. Interested individuals may apply for Active, Affiliate or Associate membership. Active membership is limited to professional writers. HWA publishes a monthly Newsletter, and its annual Bram Stoker Awards ceremony is now held in conjunction with World Horror Convention. Apply online or write to HWA Membership, PO Box 50577, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA.
World Fantasy Convention (www.worldfantasy.org) is an annual convention held in a different (usually American) city each year, oriented particularly towards serious readers and genre professionals.
World Horror Convention (www.worldhorrorsociety.org) is a smaller, more relaxed, event. It is aimed specifically at horror fans and professionals, and held in a different city each year. The annual HWA Bram Stoker Awards ceremony is currently included as part of the events.
SELECTED SMALL PRESS PUBLISHERS
Bloody Books (www.beautiful-books.o.uk), 117 Sugden Road, London SW11 5ED, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Cemetery Dance Publications (www.cemeterydance.com), 132-B Industry Lane, Unit 7, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA.
Crowswing Books (www.crowswingbooks.co.uk), PO Box 301, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE33 OXW, UK.
Earthling Publications (www.earthlingpub.com), PO Box 413, Northborough, MA 01532, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Fantagraphics Books (www.fantagraphics.com), 7563 Lake City Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
Gauntlet Press (www.gauntletpress.com), 5307 Arroyo Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80922, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Gray Friar Press (www.grayfriarpress.com), 19 Ruffield Side, Delph Hill, Wyke, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Hadesgate Publications (www.hadesgate.co.uk), PO Box 167, Selby, Y08 4WP, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Hill House, Publishers (www.hillhousepublishers.com), 491 Illing-ton Road, Ossining, NY 10562, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Kerlak Publishing (www.kerlak.com), 1779–1 Kirby Parkway, Suite 373, Memphis, TN 38138, USA.
Medusa Press (www.medusapress.com), PO Box 458, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
MonkeyBrain Books (www.monkeybrainbooks.com), 11204 Crossland Drive, Austin, TX 78726, USA. E-mail: [email protected].
Night Shade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com), 1423 33 rd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Nocturne Press (www.noctpress.com), PO Box 226, Pacific, Washington 98047–0226, USA.
Pendragon Press (www.pendragonpress.co.uk), PO Box 12, Maes-teg, Mid Glamorgan, South Wales CF34 0XG, UK.
PS Publishing (www.pspublishing.co.uk), Grosvenor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Raw Dog Screaming Press (www.rawdogscreaming.com), 5103 72nd Place, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA.
Sarob Press (www.home.freeuk.net/sarobpress), “Ty Newydd”, Four Roads, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire SA17 4SF, Wales, UK. E-mail: [email protected].
Savoy Books (www.savoy.abel.co.uk), 446 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3BW, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Solitude Publications, 9356 Lamont, Livonia, MI 48150, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Subterranean Press (www.subterraneanpress.com), PO Box 190106, Burton, MI 48519, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Tachyon Publications (www.tachyonpublications.com), 1459 18th Street #139, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Telos Publishing Ltd (www.telos.co.uk), 61 Elgar Avenue, Tol-worth, Surrey KT5 9JP, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Twilight Tales (www.TwilightTales.com), PO Box 817, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Wormhole Books (www.wormholebooks.com), 413 High Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46808, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
SELECTED MAGAZINES
Alan K’s Inhuman Magazine is an attractive digest fiction publication with an old-time pulp feel. For more information (no unsolicited manuscripts) e-mail: [email protected]
Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest (www.apexdigest.com) is a quarterly digest magazine edited by Jason B. Sizemore. Subscriptions are available from: Apex Digest, PO Box 2223, Lexington, KY 40588–2223, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Cemetery Dance Magazine (www.cemeterydance.com) is edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish and includes fiction up to 5,000 words, interviews, articles and columns by many of the biggest names in horror. For subscription information contact: Cemetery Dance Publications, PO Box 623, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Locus (www.locusmag.com) is the monthly newspaper of the SF/ fantasy/horror field. Contact: Locus Publications, PO Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661, USA. Subscription information with other rates and order forms are also available on the website. Sterling equivalent cheques can be sent to: Fantast (Medway) Ltd, PO Box 23, Upwell Wisbech, Cambs PE14 9BU, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (www.fsfmag.com) has been publishing some of the best imaginative fiction for more than fifty years. Edited by Gordon Van Gelder, single copies or an annual subscription (which includes the double October/November anniversary issue) are available by US cheques or credit card from: Fantasy & Science Fiction, PO Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA, or you can subscribe online.
New Genre (www.new-genre.com) is published annually in soft-cover book format by editors Adam Golaski (horror) and Jeff Paris (science fiction). Unsolicited submissions are welcomed up to 14,000 words. Unpublished works only, no electronic submissions. Enclose a SAE for reply. Back issues also available. New Genre, PO Box 270092, West Hartford, CT 06127, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
PostScripts: The A to Z of Fantastic Fiction (www.pspublishing.co.uk) is an excellent hardcover magazine from PS Publishing. Each issue features approximately 60,000 words of fiction (SF, fantasy, horror and crime/suspense), plus a guest editorial, interviews and occasional non-fiction. Issues are also available as a signed, limited edition. For more information contact: PS Publishing Ltd., G
rosve-nor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Rue Morgue (www.rue-morgue.com), is a glossy bi-monthly magazine edited by Jovanka Vuckovic and subtitled “Horror in Culture & Entertainment”. Packed with full colour features and reviews of new films, books, comics, music and game releases. Subscriptions are available from: Marrs Media Inc., 2926 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON M6P 1Y8, Canada, or by credit card on the web site. E-mail: [email protected]. Rue Morgue also runs the Festival of Fear: Canadian National Horror Expo in Toronto. Every Friday you can log on to a new show at Rue Morgue Radio at www.icebergradio.com and your horror shopping online source, The Rue Morgue Marketplace, is at www.ruemorguemarketplace.com
SF Site (www.sfsite.com) has been posted twice each month since 1997. Presently, it publishes around thirty to fifty reviews of SF, fantasy and horror from mass-market publishers and some small press. They also maintain link pages for Author and Fan Tribute Sites and other facets including pages for Interviews, Fiction, Science Fact, Bookstores, Small Press, Publishers, E-zines and Magazines, Artists, Audio, Art Galleries, Newsgroups and Writers’ Resources. Periodically, they add features such as author and publisher reading lists.
Talebones (www.talebones.com) is an attractive digest magazine of science fiction and dark fantasy edited and published 2–3 times a year by Patrick and Honna Swenson. For one and two year subscriptions (US funds only or credit card) write to: 5203 Quincy Avenue S.E., Auburn, WA 98092, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Video Watchdog (www.videowatchdog.com) is a full colour monthly review of horror, fantasy and cult cinema on tape and disc, published by Tim and Donna Lucas. Described as “The Perfectionist’s Guide to Fantastic Video”, an annual twelve-issue subscription is available in US funds only or VISA/MasterCard to: Video Watchdog, PO Box 5283, Cincinnati, OH 45205–0283, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Weird Tales (www.weirdtalesmagazine.com) is the latest large-size incarnation of “The Unique Magazine”, recently revamped with a new logo. Published by Wildside Press LLC, in association with Terminus Publishing Co, Inc. Single copies or a six-issue subscription is available (in US funds only) from: Wildside Press, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive #234, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] or sent to PO Box 38190, Tallahassee, FL 32315, USA. Writers’ guidelines are available from the website. For subscriptions in the UK contact: Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6JQ, UK ([email protected]).
BOOK DEALERS
Bookfellows/Mystery and Imagination Books (www.mysteryandimagination.com) is owned and operated by Malcolm and Christine Bell, who have been selling fine and rare books since 1975. This clean and neatly organised store includes SF/fantasy/horror/mystery, along with all other areas of popular literature. Many editions are signed, and catalogues are issued regularly. Credit cards accepted. Open seven days a week at 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, California 91203, USA. Tel: (818) 545–0206. Fax: (818) 545–0094. E-mail: [email protected]
Borderlands Books (www.borderlands-books.com) is a nicely designed store with friendly staff and an impressive stock of new and used books from both sides of the Atlantic. 866 Valencia Street (at 19th), San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel: (415) 824–8203 or (888) 893–4008 (toll free in the US). Credit cards accepted. Worldwide shipping. E-mail: [email protected]
Cold Tonnage Books (www.coldtonnage.com) offers excellent mail order new and used SF/fantasy/horror, art, reference, limited editions etc. Write to: Andy & Angela Richards, Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel: +44 (0)1276–475388. E-mail: [email protected]
Ken Cowley offers mostly used SF/fantasy/horror/crime/superna-tural, collectibles, pulps, videos etc. by mail order at very reasonable prices. Write to: Trinity Cottage, 153 Old Church Road, Clevedon, North Somerset, BS21 7TU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1275–872247. E-mail: [email protected]
Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com) is a friendly Burbank, California, store specialising in horror books, toys, vampire merchandise and signings. They also do mail order and run money-saving book club and membership discount deals. 4213 West Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Tel: (818) 556–6660. Credit cards accepted. E-mail: [email protected]
DreamHaven Books & Comics (www.dreamhavenbooks.com) store and mail order offers new and used SF/fantasy/horror/art and illustrated etc. with regular catalogues (both print and e-mail). Write to: 912 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA. Credit cards accepted. Tel: (612) 823–6070. E-mail: dream@dream havenbooks.com
Fantastic Literature (www.fantasticliterature.com) mail order offers the UK’s biggest online out-of-print SF/fantasy/horror genre bookshop. Fanzines, pulps and vintage paperbacks as well. Write to: Simon and Laraine Gosden, Fantastic Literature, 35 The Ramparts, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8PY, UK. Credit cards and Pay Pal accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1268–747564. E-mail: [email protected]
Fantasy Centre (www.fantasycentre.biz) shop (open 10:00am-6:00pm, Monday to Saturday) and mail order has used SF/fan-tasy/horror, art, reference, pulps etc. at reasonable prices with regular bi-monthly catalogues. They also stock a wide range of new books from small, specialist publishers. Write to: 157 Holloway Road, London N7 8LX, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20–7607 9433. E-mail: [email protected]
Ferret Fantasy, 27 Beechcroft Road, Upper Tooting, London SW17 7BX. George Locke’s legendary mail-order business now shares retail premises at Greening Burland, 27 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ, UK (10:00am-6:00pmweedays;10:00am-5:00pm Sundays). Used SF/ fantasy/horror, antiquarian, modern first editions. Catalogues issued. Tel: +44 (0)20–8767–0029. E-mail: [email protected]
Ghost Stories run by Richard Dalby issues semi-regular mail order lists of used ghost and supernatural volumes at very reasonable prices. Write to: 4 Westbourne Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Y012 4AT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1723 377049.
Kayo Books (www.kayobooks.com) is a bright, clean treasure-trove of used SF/fantasy/horror/mystery/pulps spread over two floors. Titles are stacked alphabetically by subject, and there are many bargains to be had. Credit cards accepted. Visit the store (Wednesday-Saturday, 11:00am to 6:00pm) at 814 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA or order off their website. Tel: (415) 749 0554. E-mail: [email protected]
Porcupine Books offers regular catalogues and extensive mail order lists of used fantasy/horror/SF titles via e-mail [email protected] or write to: 37 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8554–3799.
Kirk Ruebotham (www.abebooks.com/home/kirk61/) is a mail-order only dealer, who sells out-of-print and used horror/SF/fantasy/ crime and related non-fiction at very good prices, with regular catalogues. Write to: 16 Beaconsfield Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4BX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1928–560540 (10:00am-8:00pm). E-mail: [email protected]
The Talking Dead is run by Bob and Julie Wardzinski and offers reasonably priced paperbacks, rare pulps and hardcovers, with catalogues issued regularly. They accept wants lists and are also the exclusive supplier of back issues of Interzone. Credit cards accepted. Contact them at: 12 Rosamund Avenue, Merley, Wim-borne, Dorset BH21 1TE, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1202–849212 (9:00am-9:00pm). E-mail: [email protected]
Ygor’s Books specialises in out-of-print science fiction, fantasy and horror titles, including British, signed, speciality press and limited editions. They also buy books, letters and original art in these fields. E-mail: [email protected]
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Horror in 2006
Summer
Digging Deep
The Night Watch
The Luxury of Harm
Sentinels
The Saffron Gatherers
What Nature Abhors
The Last Reel
The American Dead
Between the Cold Moon and the Earth
Sob in the Silence
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Continuity Error
Dr Prida’s Dream-Plagued Patient
The Ones We Leave Behind
Mine
Obsequy
Thrown
Houses Under the Sea
They
The Clockwork Horror
Making Cabinets
Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)
Devil’s Smile
The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train
Necrology: 2006
Useful Addresses
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