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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 24, 2015 10:14:13 GMT
 It feels good to have finally completed going through all the stories submitted to Kitchen Sink Gothic. There was a tremendous response and it was no easy task whitling it down. There are some great stories, which it's been a pleasure to read. Tonight we managed to email all the contracts out to those whose stories have been accepted for it and also email the final rejections. Now there's just the small task of proofreading it all in great detail before getting it printed. Our aim is to get everything ready for publication in July. More details soon, including a TOC. Thanks to everyone who submitted stories to it - and to Joe Young for a wonderful cover. |
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Post by dem bones on Jun 24, 2015 14:01:06 GMT
Looking forward to confirmation of the TOC.
July promise much for anthology fans. Kitchen Sink Gothic, Terror Tales Of The Scottish Highlands and, the whisper has it, after a lengthy hiatus, a brand new volume of ...
No! Don't put the mockers on it, dem!
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 30, 2015 6:26:55 GMT
 We have now received back signed contracts by all our writers and can finally reveal the full list of contents for Kitchen Sink Gothic: 1964 by Franklin Marsh Derek and the Sun-Spots by Andrew Darlington Daddy Giggles by Stephen Bacon Black Sheep by Gary Fry Jamal Comes Home by Benedict J. Jones Waiting by Kate Farrell Lilly Finds a Place to Stay by Charles Black The Mutant's Cry by David A. Sutton The Sanitation Solution by Walter Gascoigne Up and Out of Here by Mark Patrick Lynch Late Shift by Adrian Cole The Great Estate by Shaun Avery Nine Tenths by Jay Eales Envelopes by Craig Herbertson Tunnel Vision by Tim Major Life is Prescious M. J. Wesolowski Canvey Island Baby by David Turnbull The book is over 200 pages long and will be published as a trade paperback and an ebook in July. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 30, 2015 8:00:12 GMT
Yee-hah! Many thanks David. Honoured to be in there with Messrs Herbertson,Sutton, Black and Jones. Oh yes.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2015 6:32:59 GMT
Am well looking forward to this one. Well done to Mr & Mrs Riley and all the contributors - with added XX's to the Vault Advent Calendar five (well, six, including the co-editor)!
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Post by dem bones on Jul 29, 2015 18:39:50 GMT
Kitchen Sink Gothic is now available on Kindle with paperback publication to follow soon. Fancy a sneak preview? Kitchen Sink Gothic
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 29, 2015 19:57:27 GMT
I would just like to point out that the contents page in the actual dowload, as opposed to the "preview" provided by amazon, is not a mix of upper and lower case. but consistently upper case.
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Post by David A. Riley on Aug 5, 2015 16:35:35 GMT
 Kitchen Sink Gothic is now available in paperback. amazon.co.uk £8.99 amazon.com $11.99 Coined in the 1950s, Kitchen Sink described British films, plays and novels frequently set in the North of England, which showed working class life in a gritty, no-nonsense, “warts and all” style, sometimes referred to as social realism. It became popular after the playwright John Osborne wrote Look Back In Anger, simultaneously helping to create the Angry Young Men movement. Films included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Entertainer, A Taste of Honey, The L-Shaped Room and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. TV dramas included Coronation Street and East Enders. In recent years TV dramas that could rightly be described as kitchen sink gothic include Being Human, with its cast of working class vampires, werewolves and ghosts, and the zombie drama In the Flesh, with its northern working class, down to earth setting. In this anthology you will find stories that cover a wide range of Kitchen Sink Gothic, from the darkly humorous to the weirdly strange and occasionally horrific. Stephen Bacon (Daddy Giggles) Franklin Marsh (1964) Andrew Darlington (Derek Edge and the Sunspots) Gary Fry (Black Sheep) Benedict J. Jones (Jamal Comes Home) Kate Farrell (Waiting) Charles Black (Lilly Finds a Place to Stay) David A. Sutton (The Mutant's Cry) Walter Gascoigne (The Sanitation Solution) Mark Patrick Lynch (Up and Out of Here) Adrian Cole (Late Shift) Shaun Avery (The Great Estate) Jay Eales (Nine Tenths) Craig Herbertson (Envelopes) Tim Major (Tunnel Vision) M. J. Wesolowski (Life is Prescious) David Turnbull (Canvey Island Baby) |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 20, 2015 9:32:10 GMT
Huzzah! Received a copy of Kitchen Sink Gothic, and have dived straight in with Stephen Bacon's Daddy Giggles. In the same area as his Home By The Sea in BB8, this is much more subtle and really chilling. Strange how , in a few short years, the innocuous name of a 1970s children's television show can make your skin crawl. Very well written, and very affecting. Great start.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 20, 2015 12:03:24 GMT
Andrew Darlington (Derek Edge and the Sunspots)
Jings! What a strange one this is. Hovering close to SF, entrancingly written, ultimately WTF.
Gary Fry (Black Sheep)
Much firmer ground with GF. Our upwardly-mobile hero gets invited to his slightly upper strata girlfriend's home for dinner (not tea). Initially reluctant, Billy accedes because, if nothing elese, it'll get him away from his own ghastly family for a while, not suspecting for a moment that Trudy's mum and dad could be anything but respectable...
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 21, 2015 7:43:58 GMT
Jamal Comes Home by Benedict J. Jones
Huzzah! Great Sarf Lahndahn stuff from Ben, who used to hang around here. Bang up to date, but also with (SPOILERS) a dash of The Monkey's Paw (if I understand it correctly) and a wonderful pub medium in Mrs Shandy.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 21, 2015 11:54:44 GMT
And it's a quick sprint Up North for
Waiting by Kate Farrell
I really enjoyed Mea Culpa in BB8, and also got a lot out of this. A lovely piece of writing, reminiscent of Alan Bennett. There's a twist, and that's my only quibble - whether anyone in the future will get it in a 'So that's where the yellow went' kind of way. But if you do get the reference, it's a great Oh No! moment after enjoying what amounts to an elderly ladies' rather charming life story.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 21, 2015 20:26:31 GMT
Lilly Finds a Place to Stay by Charles Black
Good to see Chas back on the printed page (looking forward to Black Ceremonies soon). Splendid EC tale. Always like a goth girl, and there's even product placement! Obviously Mr Black needs a new pair of Converse All-Stars.
The Mutant's Cry by David A. Sutton
Really strange, really good. Set in period (late 50s-early 60s) with stunning accuracy. Probably would have been top story until I got to Mr Avery's.
The Sanitation Solution by Walter Gascoigne
Well Dem should like this one - it starts with some of Charlie Manson's lyrics. Unapologetically American but fits right in.
Up and Out of Here by Mark Patrick Lynch
Really odd. Could have sworn it was from the US, but must be British. Edging toward fantasy. No! Had to smile at the end.
Late Shift by Adrian Cole
Good gritty tale. Odd, but riveting.
The Great Estate by Shaun Avery
An epic study of estate life. Dave is not quite like the rest of the underclass that surround him. But will his difference save or condemn him? Long enough for the characters to really take on life. I couldn't suss out which way it would go, so the ending was quite a revelation. Terrific.
Nine Tenths by Jay Eales
This one lost me.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 22, 2015 7:49:51 GMT
Craig Herbertson (Envelopes)
Yes! Craig delivers too. Not slavishly adhering to the brief, but also delving into the shadow world of spiritualism, you get set up for one outcome, and get another. Lovely stuff.
(Note to CH - I'm no expert but wouldn't condoms float - even if used?)
I'm finally clicking on to what I think David & Linden were trying to achieve, and it does make a real difference, horror in a completely different environment.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 23, 2015 11:22:52 GMT
This sounds brilliant! Am hoping to grab a copy of KSG this week but can safely confirm in advance that ensuing rubbish "review" will not be a patch on Mr. M's.
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