More FantasyCon-related news, this from our friend
David A. Sutton at
Shadow PublicationsShadow Publishing Newsletter
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August 2014
L. A. Lewis - Tales Of The Grotesque (Shadow Publishing, Feb. 2014: Ghost Story Press, 1994, 2003).
David FletcherBlurb:
GROTESQUE TALES... UNEASY TALES
"The emaciated sodden legs beat a ceaseless march on the unresisting veil like those of a gallows victim marking time in air. The battered, half-eaten arms clawed blindly at nothing. The eyes were gone, and within their ragged-edged hollows was manifest the coiling purposeful movement of reptillian life" - (Animate in Death)
`Squadron Leader Leslie Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in 1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and supernatural genre between the wars.
Lewis undoubtedly earns a high place among the best masters of supernatural and macabre literature that Britain has ever produced.' (Richard Dalby)
`A brilliant collection' (Mark Samuels)
FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK!** SHADOW PUBLISHING AT FANTASYCON 2014
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Shadow Publishing will be sharing dealers' table space with The Alchemy Press, at FantasyCon 2014, over the weekend of September 5th - 7th, at The Royal York Hotel. A ll of our titles will be available, including the popular collections of Eddy C. Bertin (
The Whispering Horror), David A. Riley (
The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror) and Johnny Mains (
Frightfully Cosy and Mild Stories for Nervous Types). We'll also have copies of our latest collection, published for the first time in paperback, L. A. Lewis's previously rare
Tales of the Grotesque: A Collection of Uneasy Tales.
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TALES OF THE GROTESQUE RECEIVING VERY POSITIVE REVIEWS------------------------------------------------------------
The Richard Dalby edited collection of L. A. Lewis tales, long out of print until now, is receiving good notices from several quarters. These include
Des Lewis' blog . The book has also been reviewed on the BFS website and Amazon, as well another, more recent and excellent one on
The Menace of Objects blog ------------------------------------------------------------
JAMES WADE COLLECTION NEWS------------------------------------------------------------
Publication date of the James Wade (1930-1983) collection,
Such Things May Be: Collected Macabre Writings has slipped somewhat, but the original plans for the book have gone "out the window" as editor Edward P. Berglund is now providing much more material for what is likely to be a definitive volume of the author's works (the original line-up for
Such Things May Be, as envisaged by James Wade, unfortunately never saw publication in the author's lifetime). The contents will include all his short stories, poetry and genre non-fiction, plus some non-genre fiction. Additionally, in association with Airgedlamh Publications, there will be a limited edition hardcover, although the composition of this edition has yet to be decided.
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REVIEW OF SAMANTHA LEE COLLECTION------------------------------------------------------------
Samantha Lee's
Worse Things Than Spiders & Other Stories has just been reviewed on the
BFS website:
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Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Regards,
David
Shadow Publications
