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Post by paulfinch on Sept 17, 2011 17:01:54 GMT
Will it be available at Fcon, Paul? I'm strongly optimistic that it will be.
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Post by paulfinch on Sept 17, 2011 12:31:24 GMT
me too! And yes, you're absolutely right. It is hugely influenced by the Fontana series - the full collection of which I still treasure - and if I can get as many volumes out of it as they did, I'll be a happy man. we've individual threads for each of the 'Tales Of Terror' paperbacks and even a POLL (ten weeks on, one vote cast!). They barely gets a look-in in compared to Fontana's Ghost and Horror series', but, give or take the Sea Tales Of Terror, i absolutely adore them and i'm delighted that you're carrying on such a worthy tradition. It's long been an ambition but finally, this last year, I was in a financial position to realise it. Obviously the books have got to sell, otherwise it just isn't worth it. However, if we merely break even I'll be happy to keep going. For this reason, any publicity anyone can give this book will really help.
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Post by paulfinch on Sept 16, 2011 17:04:45 GMT
Much appreciated, D.
And yes, you're absolutely right. It is hugely influenced by the Fontana series - the full collection of which I still treasure - and if I can get as many volumes out of it as they did, I'll be a happy man.
Hopefully fellow authors who read this board will not be miffed that they weren't approached when I was firt putting this anthology together. There will be others, and I'll be approaching loads more people in due course.
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Post by paulfinch on Sept 16, 2011 13:04:31 GMT
The first ever horror anthology edited by my good self – TERROR TALES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT – will be available for pre-order from Gray Friar Press from tomorrow afternoon onwards (Sat Sept 17). It contains ten original works of fiction from some of the current best chill-meisters in the business and three classic reprints, all set in the Lake District. For full details, including cover art, TOC and background details, check on my blog page: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/
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Post by paulfinch on Sept 9, 2011 9:19:13 GMT
*groan* from your synopsis, this sounds so up my street that it's to going to haunt me too until someone comes up with the answer. can you not give us anything else to go on, Paul? and you're sure it's definitely modern? It's definitely a recent story, D - as in id tes from the last five years or so. If memory serves, the game is an attempt to replicate the circumstances in which someone disappeared in the house (or something like that). The hero then slips through the same dimension door, or whatever it is, and finds himself in a kind of nightmarish parallel version of the world he's just been in. It's truly terrifying. I had the idea initially that it was written by Reggie Oliver, Steve Duffy or another member of the 'James Gang', as they used to be called back in the days of Ghosts & Schoalrs, but so far they've all denied authorship. However, I'm pretty sure the author is British, as the story is set somewhere like Lancashire or Cheshire. It's becoming a real mystery.
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Post by paulfinch on Sept 8, 2011 15:28:59 GMT
Don't know if anyone can help, but I've been trying to trace the title and author of a story I read about three or four years ago, which made a massive impression on me.
I'm writing in this particular section, because I'm pretty sure it appeared in one of the Year's Best anthologies, though I wouldn't like to put my mortgage on that.
It concerns a psychic chap who is asked to the house of a rather odd family (possibly on Christmas Eve) to help with their ghost-watching activities. Initially it's all quite genteel, but then he ends up playing a bizarre game of hide and seek, and being hunted around the large, gaunt house by quite a different kind of family ...
Does that ring any bells of familitary with anyone? It's totally remiss of me to lose the details - don't know what I was thinking of at the time, but it's one of the scariest modern stories I've ever read.
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Post by paulfinch on Aug 17, 2011 12:36:45 GMT
Thanks very much, Doc, Andy and everyone else.
VOODOO DAWN has been in a kind of development hiatus for several years now. The first script was completed in 2005, but I wouldn't say it was in Development Hell, because everyone who's seen it - especially when they look at Paul Campion's amazing concept work - has loved it. But Brit horror movies are a dog to get money for at present, and the problem with VOODOO DAWN is that it really doesn't translate well into foreign situations. It certainly would not work in a New Zealand context, where we gained our finance for THE DEVIL'S ROCK, and though it might be possible to set it in the US, that's a whole new complicated ball-game when it comes to setting up deals.
However, Paul and I are well on with three other projects: a World War Two adventure entitled SCORPION RAIDERS, a hard-assed urban thriller entitled HEART AND MIND and, for horror buffs, which I guess is most of those tuning into this forum, an adaptation of Brian Keene's best-selling novel, DARK HOLLOW.
As I say, for more regular updates than I'm able to provide on here, just pop onto my blog page any time. I try to post at least twice a week. There are bits of antho, story and novel news on there as well.
PS: Just to clarify something for the person who emailed me the other day, the movie adaptation of my novel, STRONGHOLD, is not being scripted by me, so alas I can't give you any reports on its progress.
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Post by paulfinch on Aug 16, 2011 21:53:21 GMT
Glad a few people have enjoyed THE DEVIL'S ROCK. There's no better feeling than seeing one of your stories or scripts make it to the big screen. It won't be to everyone's taste, but thus far the reaction is pretty positive. It's opened a few other doors for me, which is nice. Sorry if this seems a bit of self-indulgent post by the way, but I thought while folk were talking about the film and offering praise it was only right to show gratitude. If anyone's interested, there's quite a bit of info about the development and production of the movie, plus future projects and so forth, on my blog/page: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/Note to moderator, if it's unacceptable to post this link, apologies offered, please feel free to cut it out.
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Post by paulfinch on Mar 6, 2011 23:09:22 GMT
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Post by paulfinch on Feb 7, 2011 10:12:52 GMT
For those interested, my Gry Friar press collection of last year, ONE MONSTER IS NOT ENOUGH is now out in paperback. Full details and links are on my blog/webpage - paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/. There's a rather nice review on there, as well, which appeared on Hellforge.
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Post by paulfinch on Dec 14, 2010 17:22:59 GMT
Thanks fellas. Will go in search.
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Post by paulfinch on Dec 14, 2010 10:02:41 GMT
Yes, Paul, it's And All Around The House. Long after the EC comic, Jack Oleck wrote a novelisation of Tales From The Crypt to tie in with the Amicus movie. we've a thread for it HEREThat's terrific that, D, thanks very much. Now ... don't suppose anyone's got a spare copy of that paperback, which they wouldn't mind parting with (LOL)?
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Post by paulfinch on Dec 14, 2010 9:38:40 GMT
Can anyone tell me more about Jack Oleck's contribution to this 'would be ace' collection?
I'm guessing that ALL AROUND THE HOUSE was the tale in which the scheming wife murders her husband on Christmas Eve, only to then be menaced by a serial killer who's escaped from the nuthatch and now turns up outside dressed as Santa?
If so, I know it started life in the EC Comics stable, but was it originally a comic or a short story? (Or did it become a short story later on).
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Post by paulfinch on Nov 22, 2010 21:33:22 GMT
I've just heard from Charles that I can reveal there will be an eighth volume in the series. Furthermore, I know that I at least have a story in it, The Last Coach Trip., which is about the last annual trip by a Lancashire working men's club to Ripon Races before the club shuts its doors for good. It's a little autobiographical as I used to go on trips like this years ago before I got married. Congrats David. I'll be in there with you. Charlie told me a couple of days ago that my story, Tok, has made the cut.
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Post by paulfinch on Nov 21, 2010 22:33:17 GMT
My Victorian Christmas horror novella, SPARROWHAWK, is now officially available from Pendragon Press. Anyone interested, can order it from their site (http://www.pendragonpress.net/books/sparrowhawk-by-paul-finch/) or from Amazon. Alternatively, if you want to know a little bit more, there's an extensive new entry about it on my blog - paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/
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