Charles Black - Tenth Black Book Of Horror

[dem]

Many thanks to Dr. Terror for giving us his blessing to break this welcome news.

1. The Tenth Black Book Of Horror is penciled in for publication to coincide with the World Fantasy Convention at Brighton, Oct.31st - Nov 3, 2013.

2. Here's a sneak preview of Paul Mudie's tasteful cover artwork.

More details to follow as and when.

[Craig Herbertson]

Aug 23, 2013 13:25:14 GMT dem said:

Many thanks to Dr. Terror for giving us his blessing to break this welcome news.

1. The Tenth Black Book Of Horror is penciled in for publication to coincide with the World Fantasy Convention at Brighton, Oct.31st - Nov 3, 2013.

2. Here's a sneak preview of Paul Mudie's tasteful cover artwork.

Mudie strikes again. Excellent cover. Can't wait to see the contents list. Big hurrah for Dr terror

[David A. Riley]

A brilliant cover as usual from Mr Mudie.

He has also done the cover for my short story collection, The Lurkers in the Abyss. He was the only artist I wanted Dave Sutton to commission.

[dem]

I think keeping the same artist throughout is one of Charlie's shrewdest editorial decisions. There's a winning nasty edge to Paul's work for the series, and the uniform look suits. You know a Black Book when you see one.

Moodie has done you proud, Mr. R!
The Lurkers In The Abyss

[pulphack]

Absolutely. Charlie's a good enough editor that what's on the pages can look after itself - he has a good nose for new people and a solid buch of reliables he can turn to. By using the same artist and the same typography styles on the cover, he's created a 'brand' that's instantly identifiable, which a lot of horror anthologies and single author titles don't have - just look at Kindle and Lulu for proof!

Dr Terror has created something here that people in 40 years time might just be talking about like this board speaks of Van Thal.

[Craig Herbertson]

Aug 23, 2013 19:39:46 GMT dem said:

I think keeping the same artist throughout is one of Charlie's shrewdest editorial decisions. There's a winning nasty edge to Paul's work for the series, and the uniform look suits. You know a Black Book when you see one.

Moodie has done you proud, Mr. R!
The Lurkers In The Abyss

I agree with this. If you have something good don't change it and Mudie is more than good. What he has achieved is excellent distinctive art with a consistent feel that you can always recognise as a Mudie. Hats off to a fine artist and Charles can be very proud of his anthology - ten of them so far! Look great on the shelf.

[Dr Terror]

Tenth ToC:

STIFF --- Angela Blake
THE EASTER BUNNY --- Tom Johnstone
THE LAST TESTAMENT OF JACOB TYLER --- David Surface
THE WAR EFFORT --- Carl P. Thompson
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTING --- David A. Sutton
CHRISTMAS IN THE RAIN --- Chris Lawton
DEEPER THAN DARK WATER --- Gary Power
MARSHWALL --- Paul Finch
EXPLODING RAPHAELESQUE HEADS --- Ian Hunter
THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER --- John Llewellyn Probert
THE PYGMALION CONJURATION --- Mike Chinn
THE BOY --- David Williamson
THE LAST WAGON IN THE TRAIN --- Andrea Janes
DAD DANCING --- Kate Farrell
GUINEA PIG GIRL --- Thana Niveau

[David A. Riley]

That looks a great lineup, Charles - as usual!

Love that video.

I was surprised while on holiday in Bulgaria recently to see a book with the very same cover art on it as the first Black Book of Horror! It was only when I leafed through it, using my scrappy bit of Bulgarian, that I realised it was a Bulgarian copy of Steve Jones' Book of Horror with Paul Mudie's artwork. I would have been much more excited if it had been a Bulgarian copy of the first Black Book.

[Dr Terror]

I wonder if Paul, or even Steve know about that.

Here it is.

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He does now! 

[David A. Riley]

You never know. I know of some of my stories that have been published in Russia and Italy (long after the fact, I might add) that I was never told about or paid for.

I must admit it made my heart leap for an instant when I saw it. It was in a shop that was part of a large garage on the outskirts of Sofia. Quite a hefty paperback. I might have been tempted to buy it but it was 17 lev and we were on our way to drop our hire car off before flying home.

I certainly hope Paul got paid for it, though he'll probably be pleased to see how far his artwork has spread!

[Dr Terror]

Sept 17, 2013 13:14:23 GMT David A. Riley said:

You never know. I know of some of my stories that have been published in Russia and Italy (long after the fact, I might add) that I was never told about or paid for.

That's what made me wonder.

[Jojo Lapin X]

Sept 17, 2013 12:56:20 GMT Dr Terror said:

I wonder if Paul, or even Steve know about that.

Here it is.

Whoever did that must, it seems to me, have had access to the original artwork.

[dem]

Sex in the undertaker's parlour, Asian torture porn, Religious lunatics, zombies, sundry sex maniacs, a junior carpentry set, a game of Mousetrap!, and a John Travolta casualty - you bet it's a new Black Book of Horror!

Angela Blake - Stiff: Adventures of Amanda Worthington, insatiable nymphomaniac, deposited on the Convent steps shortly after her eighth birthday, and the bane of the Mother Superior until a sexual assault on the Bishop finally sees her banished to a women's refuge at sixteen. 'Randy Mandy' eventually finds satisfaction when she throws herself at handsome, aptly named John Thomas, but, alas, he's already spoken for and unwilling to divorce his rotten Lucy. Nothing if not resourceful, Amanda immerses herself in the Dark Arts to destroy her rival, but a fatal miscalculation, calls for extreme remedy. Nuns, necrophilia, black sorcery and a mouldering member - how better to commence the landmark volume 10?

Tom Johnstone - The Easter Bunny: Barry Thomas is struggling to win over stepdaughter, Cassie. No matter that Simon, her abusive father, has thrown in his lot with a bizarre Jesus cult, still she dotes on the bastard. And now Simon has inflicted Eli the psychotic rabbit on the family by way of an Easter gift. Simon soon reveals his ulterior motives and, bad news for Barry, a new found Religious mania has done zero to curb his sadistic impulses.

Chris Lawton - Christmas In The Rain: As a sixteenth birthday present, Abbie is thrown out of home by her revolting mother. Edinburgh is no place to be homeless, especially not over a freezing Christmas when there's a cannibal killer on the loose .....

John Llewellyn Probert - The Best Christmas Ever: Dedicated - as is the entire volume - to the memory of Sir Charles Birkin, and quite the most Pan Horror of the stories to date. Take a surgeon, his self-centred, shoe fetishist wife, a simple-minded babysitter, a cute little girl and an inappropriate present in the hands of a nine-year old who worships his Dad. If you like your terror tales laced with ghoulish bad taste, you'll be in pieces.

Kate Farrell - Dad Dancing: "Call me Ronnie" is a Peckham plumber made good. His millions have seen to it that identical twin sons Nic and Anton have received the best Public School education and generally wanted for nothing in their spoilt lives. Ronnie means well, but no matter how he lavishes money on them, the twins regard him as a bully, a boor, an embarrassment, and his trophy second wife is even worse. Now they've come of age, Nic and Anton realise they can better run the show alone. Ronnie's New Year's Eve Saturday Night Fever theme party provides perfect opportunity to sever the family ties.

Thana Niveau - Guinea Pig Girl: Arguably the nastiest of this initial six. Young Alex fixates upon Yuki Hayashi, gorgeous starlet of such Japanese torture porn favourites as Victim Factory 1 & 2, Love Hotel Of The Damned, and the wonderfully named Aesthetic Paranoia. Although the movies are the cheapest, nastiest piles of junk imaginable, there's something unnervingly realistic about the scenes involving Yuki. Ashamed and not a little scared, Alex can't stop masturbating over those special moments depicting the varied and increasingly hideous mutilations of his dream girl, until Yuki is haunting his every waking hour.

[dem]

Extreme new book terror madness at the dump of dem just now with further juicy arrivals in today's post including another Mortbury Press title, Anna Taborska's For Those Who Dream Monsters and, from Shadow Publications, David A. Riley's Lurkers In The Abyss (thread to follow). Am trying to resist my usual tendency to go all infant let loose in a sweetshop, but it is bloody torture. Speaking of which, there's plenty of that in evidence in The Tenth Black Book. Am now past halfway, and there has yet to be a dull moment.

David Surface - The Last Testament Of Jacob Tyler: "Are you ready to die?". Set in Pennsylvania, 15 years before the American Civil War. When his late wife's relatives begin asking awkward questions about the manner of her untimely death, Tyler, a professional slave-hunter, skips town to enlist as a mercenary in Delaware County. Lead by the psychotic Sheriff Hendricks, the hired guns embark upon what should be a routine operation to crush a fledgling uprising among tenant farmer by making an example of the ringleaders. Unfortunately for them, it's not the peasant population they have to worry about but a tribe of undead native Americans. The tarring and feathering of an informant sets the stage for a massacre in flame.

David Williamson - The Boy: He used to be mother's pride and joy, but with the birth of Clive, son #1 (he no longer has a name) is not so much relegated in her affections but actively persecuted. His father, who has never recovered from his WWII experiences, is no help as, when he's not convalescing in a psychiatric ward, he's doing wife's bidding and beating son #1 with a belt. To make matters worse, Clive is the most despicable, whining snitch. Matters reach their grim and malodorous conclusion at the derelict sewage works.