STEPHEN BACON

Charles Black has released the artwork and the lineup for the latest anthology from Mortbury Press, The Sixth Black Book of Horror. Here are the contents -

SIX OF THE BEST  by John Llewellyn Probert
TRAFFIC STREAM  by Simon Kurt Unsworth
IMAGINARY FRIENDS  by Steve Lockley
AN UNCONVENTIONAL EXORCISM  by R. B. Russell
THE DOOM by Paul Finch
KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY by Gary Fry
SPANISH SUITE by Craig Herbertson
MR PIGSNY by Reggie Oliver
THE RED STONE by Alex Langley
ROOM ABOVE THE SHOP by Stephen Bacon
THEIR CRAMPED DARK WORLD by David A. Riley
GNOMES by Mick Lewis
BAGPUSS by Anna Taborska
THE SWITCH by David Williamson
KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT by Mark Samuels

What a fine selection of great writers. I’m thrilled and awed to be in such company. This book will be launched at the World Horror Convention in Brighton in March. If you can’t make it there, you can click on the link here to visit the Mortbury Press website.

My story ‘The Other Side of Silence‘ will appear in the British Fantasy Society’s ‘Dark Horizons’, edited by Stephen Theaker, due to be published in September 2010. It’s a 6500 word post-apocalyptic tale, set in a future Britain, ravaged by a virus pandemic. The story has nothing to do with zombies, surprisingly. Dark Horizons goes out free to all members of the BFS. More information when I get it.