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Post by Calenture on Jul 14, 2010 11:57:59 GMT
FC 6 is the largest issue so far, with 84 pages, 10 stories and two serials beginning this issue. Filthy Creations is proud to present the serialisation of David A Riley's novel Sendings. David has described this as "a mixture of two influences at the time it was originally written, H P Lovecraft and Dennis Wheatley!" Sounds good to me. And if a creepy mansion housing an artist's community on grounds previously occupied by a baby-sacrificing cult gives you an appetite, probably you'll agree. Also beginning this issue, Craig Herbertson's novel The Death Tableau. This one's already gained the attention of a couple of 'names' in the horror field. Dr Peralis' work takes her into the world of the drop-outs and down and outs, where young Kennedy introduces her to a silent giant. And a mysterious Mr Bowers wants Peralis' advice on an even more mysterious artefact. Both these writers have had previous stories published in the now-legendary Pan Books of Horror. And they're both brilliant at what they do. Above, illustration for Robert Mammone's The Devil At Your Heels, a story of death on the road... and hell on wheels. Robert's previous credits include a story in Dr Who Magazine, an audio presentation The Copse at Psudopod.org, and he had the cover story in Encounters Magazine 2, Along Came a Spider.. The illustration above is for Penni McClaren Walker's Easy Money. Penni's established a name for herself as a singer-songwriter, and Easy Money has the feel of one of those portmanteau tales beloved of Amicus. Filthy Creations 6 and The Thinking Man's Crumpet 4 cost £2.25 (including p&p) or £3.50 when bought together: One or two more posts will follow (there's a fair number of reasons to be cheerful in these mags). ;D
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Post by Calenture on Jul 14, 2010 20:53:11 GMT
This one is for Rage by D F Lewis. Rage is one of those perfect straight-faced miniatures that Des does so well. A little while after reading it I started chuckling. Coral wondered what I might have taken. Then she read it, and she started giggling, too. For A Solace of Winter Rain by Stephen Bacon. Using the trappings of the smoking-room tale, this one has a discomfiting end which almost places it in another genre. Stephen has had stories in the final three volumes of Nemonymous, The Sixth Black Book of Horror, Where the Heart Is and others. This one below was for Reg Jones' The Hot Gates in The Thinking Man's Crumpet 4:
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Post by Calenture on Jul 15, 2010 11:57:49 GMT
OK, this should do it. Don't want to spam the place. Thanks for your patience, and happy reading. From James Stangers Crocodile Tears: "Streetlights were eerie and parked cars would take the form of hunched beasts, and the doors of houses become howling, gaping mouths." Then I read Colin Leslie's equally paranoid Bad Manners (which defies illustration) and the houses seemed to gain staring eyes or watchers. This copy of FC is dedicated to D F Lewis. After having stories printed in about 1500 publications, Des no longer submits work to magazines. But of course, his stories are all over cyberspace. I loved The Fat Shrike, which struck me as two stories in one, set against a typically British landscape where death lurks behind the counter of the local corner shop. Other stories are by Charles Black (and about time too), Franklin Marsh (the nation demanded it) and some guy they'll never take seriously (thank God) with a name like Rog Pile. Consultative nagging by Coral King. The Thinking Man's Crumpet 4 includes: Inner Demons by Anthony Watson. Horror writer Ross Warren wrote "you should read Inner Demons by Anthony Watson in the Thinking Man’s Crumpet – It’s simply brilliant," this quote lifted from a reply by Ross Warren hereI’ve just read it and I agree. It’s a highly readable and (in a quite literal sense) stomach-churning piece of horror. Definitely required reading for pulp fans. Coral finds this stuff and doesn't tell me. Interrogation - More vicious stuff for strong stomachs by Anna Stephens, one of our more sadistic writers. A couple of the grimmer stories I’ve read recently have come from Anna Stephens in TTMC and Anna Taborska in The Fifth Black Book of Horror. So much for the weaker sex. Hah! In Peter Tennant’s The End of a Strange Affair, a misogynist’s revenge on his stripper girlfriend goes ironically wrong, while David Thorpe’s bittersweet verse Till When? tells of an unemployed couple who create their own diseased corner of heaven in a stolen Mondeo under the Watford intersection.
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