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Post by dem on Dec 12, 2020 18:16:55 GMT
David A. Riley - After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales: Illustrated by Jim Pitts (Parallel Universe, Dec. 2020) Introduction
Three Eyed Jack
The Fragile Mask of His Face
Terror on the Moors
The Shade of Apollyon
Writer's Cramp
Fish Eye
Boat Trip
Prickly
After NightfallAnother very beautiful new book from Parallel Universe, comprehensively illustrated by Jim Pitts who, like PUP, seems to have gone into overdrive this past few years. In terms of stories, it's a career spanning sampler with the title story recently celebrating the 50th anniversary of it's first publication in Weird Window #1, 1970. Boat Trip and Prickly have both graced recent Vault Advent Calendars. Review ASAP
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Post by helrunar on Dec 20, 2020 14:05:05 GMT
In the wake of reading David's beautifully done, extremely creepy tale for the Bedside Companion, I'm definitely intrigued by this new publication!
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem on Dec 27, 2020 18:47:04 GMT
A winter return to Grudge End and environs to brave Mr. Riley's fourth collection ...  Jim Pitts Crooked stranger as seen through Jack's third eye. : When struggling widow Patty hooks up with a shady 'entrepreneur,' Harold Pettifer, the pair make use of his dubious entertainment industry contacts to promote her son's unique ability. Jack, fifteen, is blessed or cursed with the freaky gift of a third eye in the middle of his forehead. Clairvoyant from infancy, he is loath to open that extra eye for fear of what it reveals, namely, the parasites and elementals infesting every other one of us. Jack is an overnight sensation and the enterprise a financial success. So much so that, celebrating his sixteenth birthday over a first ever pint in the Bell & Compasses, Jack decides Harold has outgrown his usefulness .... The most recent story, written especially for a forthcoming? (I think?) issue of Trevor Kennedy's Gruesome Grotesques. TBC |
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Post by dem on Dec 30, 2020 18:01:16 GMT
A couple of old friends. Come to think of it, looking down the contents list, I'd met and, most likely, commented upon all bar the opening story at some time or another. The Fragile Mask on His Face: (James R. Beach & Jason V. Brock [eds.], Dark Discoveries, #15, Fall 2009; His Own Mad Demons & Other Dark Tales, 2012). College student Joyce Wainwright goes AWOL after a quiet drink in Grudge End's hottest nightspot, The Potter's Wheel, during the course of which she made a spiteful remark about a pale, 'goggle-eyed' young Johnny no mates at the bar. Fatally for her, Mat Denton, Black Magician, is not one to forgive a slight. Helen, Joyce's best mate, teams up with the missing girl's boyfriend to investigate her disappearance. Denton lures the pair to an abandoned farmhouse on the moors for a final face off. The Terror On The Moors: ( World Of Horror #6, April 1975: The Lurkers In The Abyss & Other Tales Of Terror, 2013). Sometimes all that's required is for a motorist to be stranded on the snowbound moor and forced to take shelter at the nearest abandoned farmhouse. Trust that which haunts the rotting premises to do the rest. |
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 1, 2021 17:26:26 GMT
I am really pleasd to announce that After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales is now available in paperback and kindle. The paperback is £11.99 and the kindle download is just £2.99. Just like the hardcover version published recently, the book contains the following stories: Three Eyed Jack The Fragile Mask on his Face Terror on the Moors The Shade of Apollyon Writer's Cramp Fish Eye Boat Trip Prickly After Nightfall Here are just a few of the illustrations by Jim Pitts, nineteen of which are full page.       |
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 1, 2021 17:41:10 GMT
I am really pleasd to announce that After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales is now available in paperback and kindle. The paperback is £11.99 and the kindle download is just £2.99. Just like the hardcover version published recently, the book contains the following stories: Three Eyed Jack The Fragile Mask on his Face Terror on the Moors The Shade of Apollyon Writer's Cramp Fish Eye Boat Trip Prickly After Nightfall Here are just a few of the illustrations by Jim Pitts, nineteen of which are full page. Great artwork! |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 1, 2021 17:46:36 GMT
The book layout and the illustrations by Mr Pitts are really beautiful. Congratulations!
cheers, Helrunar
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Post by andydecker on Jan 1, 2021 19:17:55 GMT
This looks great. Very well done.
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Post by dem on Jan 2, 2021 18:49:14 GMT
The Shadow Of Apollyon: ( World Of Horror #7, May 1975). The demonologist narrator takes too-full advantage of an unexpected opportunity to humiliate Updike, a smarmy sceptic in all matters Dark Sorcery. Our sympathies are with the author until he resorts to scumbag's trick of slipping a snide hallucinogenic into his rival's coffee. The Angel of Death pays a visit. I'll bet this one was a favourite with the Black Prince of Mortbury. Writer's Cramp: (Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton [ed's] Fantasy Tales #1, Robinson 1988; Paul Finch [ed.] Terror Tales of Northwest England, 2019). With strict deadline to meet, Cartwright-Hughes, editor of the struggling Digest of Horror magazine, rewrites a story submitted by unknown author, A. J. Dymchurch, passes it off as his own. Unfortunately for the editor, Dymchurch, a diabolist, recognises the plagiarism and demands a public apology. With none forthcoming, he takes fiendish revenge.
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Post by dem on Jan 11, 2021 18:18:45 GMT
Boat Trip (Joseph Rubas [ed.] The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, 2016). Two shady characters bribe a pair of impoverished Cornish fishermen to take them across the channel during a storm. At dead of night something monstrous attempts to board the boat ... As featured on the Vault Advent Calendar for 2018. Action Jesuits vs. the Esoteric Order of Dagon (!).
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