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Ghost Story Award…

Here I am in the Toby Carvery in Nottingham, taking a break from BFS Fantasycon, with Brian Showers of Swan River Press. We are receiving our Ghost Story Awards for 2014 from Mark Valentine for Best Book (Dreams of Shadow and Smoke) and Best Short Story (‘Shallabalah’).

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Podcast of ‘The Comrade’!

Tales to Terrify have done a recording of an older story that appeared in An Emporium of Automata, ‘The Comrade’. It is narrated by Colin Clews, who does a wonderful job! It is available here: Tales to Terrify, 195, 16th October 2015

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The Gift of the Kos’mos Cometh!

The Gift of the Kos’mos Cometh!  An Homage to Night and Cosmos Coming soon from Les Editions de L’Oubli, edited by Dan T. Ghetu and Damian Murphy With contributions from: Quentin S. Crisp * Thomas Stromsholt * Harold Billings * Alcebiades Diniz * John Howard * Joseph Dawson * Jonathan Wood * Damian Murphy * D.F. Lewis * Colin Insole * more »

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New Collection with Undertow!

Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2015 — Undertow Publications has acquired short story collections from D.P. Watt and Sunny Moraine to round out their 2016 fiction list. ‘Almost Insentient, Almost Divine,’ is the third collection of weird fiction from D.P. Watt, while ‘Singing With All My Skin and Bone’ is the much-anticipated debut collection from Sunny Moraine. “I am delighted to more »

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Sold Out…

A day before its official publication, Egaeus Press’ Soliloquy for Pan (ed. Mark Beech) has sold out! Also, The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications (first edition, Egaeus Press) has sold out too! But there is now a paperback second edition available here (UK) and here (US).

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Terror Tales of the Highlands

Published on 18th June 2015, from Gray Friar Press… Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands, ed. Paul Finch available to pre-order at Amazon UK etc… The Scottish Highlands, picturesque home to grand mountains and plunging glens. But also a land of bitterness, betrayal and blood-feud, where phantom pipers lament callous slaughters, evil spirits haunt crag and loch, and ancient monsters roam more »

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New Edition…

The new paperback edition of The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications is now available to order from Amazon UK at £8.99 or Amazon US at $12.99…

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Phantasmagorical Reprint!

Dear all, The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications will be reprinted in May in paperback. This is a little experiment with Createspace. Hopefully the retail price will be £8.99/$12.99 or thereabouts. More details to follow soon… The wonderful cover is by Andrzej Welminski… This has the full support of Mark at Egaeus Press who has only 10 copies remaining of more »

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Ghost Story Award 2015!

Dear all, Some wonderful news… My story ‘Shallabalah’, Ghosts and Scholars Newsletter, No 26, (The Haunted Library), was selected for ‘The Ghost Story Awards’ best ghost story of 2014: Announcement at Wormwoodiana

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Conflagration still smoulders…

Dear all, It is with great pleasure that I announce the return of Conflagration (long delayed). It will be published this September: L’Homme Recent Series Published by Ex Occidente Press Pages: 100 Limited to 100 copies ∞ Conflagration Immoral Vignettes by D.P. Watt This is not a manifesto; it is a dance of desire. You know the old days are more »