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Post by dem bones on Aug 3, 2023 12:31:09 GMT
Available for pre-order .... Paul Finch [ed.] - Terror Tales of the Mediterranean (Telos, Aug. 2023)  Neil Williams
Duo of Darkness
Maxim Jakubowski - On Our Way to the Shore
Belmez
Aliya Whiteley - Meet in the Middle
Island of the Damned
Steve Duffy - The Lovers
When Madmen Ruled the Earth
Don Tumasonis - The Wretched Thicket of Thorn
The Blue Room
Reggie Oliver - This Haunted Heaven
Born of Blood and Mystery
Sean Hogan - The Quiet Woman
Holy Terrors
Jasper Bark - The Teeth of the Hesperides
Cyclops
Paul Finch - Reign of Hell
In Human Guise
Mark Morris - Mistral
Ghosts of Malta
Carly Holmes - Mammone
Extinctor Draconis
David J Howe - Vromolimni
The Other Devils
Simon Clark - Gerassimos Flamotas: A Day in the Life
Lord of the Undead
Gary McMahon - Should Not Be Blurb: The Mediterranean. Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history’s cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked on spits, of curses, scourges, and devious deities who played with men’s souls like pawns in chess …
The poison apples of Aegle
The human sacrifice on Crete
The beautiful predator of Palermo
The damned souls on Poveglia
The evil artefact at Koyuluk
The blood-drinking baron of Emporda
The demon attack in Vatican City Available for pre-order: Telos PublishingMore details via Paul Finch's Walking in the Dark blog |
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 3, 2023 12:33:00 GMT
Available for pre-order .... Paul Finch [ed.] - Terror Tales of the The Mediterranean (Telos, Aug. 2023) Neil Williams Peter Shilston - The Catacomb
Duo of Darkness
Maxim Jakubowski - On Our Way to the Shore
Belmez
Aliya Whiteley - Meet in the Middle
Island of the Damned
Steve Duffy - The Lovers
When Madmen Ruled the Earth
Don Tumasonis - The Wretched Thicket of Thorn
The Blue Room
Reggie Oliver - This Haunted Heaven
Born of Blood and Mystery
Sean Hogan - The Quiet Woman
Holy Terrors
Jasper Bark - The Teeth of the Hesperides
Cyclops
Paul Finch - Reign of Hell
In Human Guise
Mark Morris - Mistral
Ghosts of Malta
Carly Holmes - Mammone
Extinctor Draconis
David J Howe - Vromolimni
The Other Devils
Simon Clark - Gerassimos Flamotas: A Day in the Life
Lord of the Undead
Gary McMahon - Should Not Be Blurb: The Mediterranean. Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history’s cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked on spits, of curses, scourges, and devious deities who played with men’s souls like pawns in chess …
The poison apples of Aegle
The human sacrifice on Crete
The beautiful predator of Palermo
The damned souls on Poveglia
The evil artefact at Koyuluk
The blood-drinking baron of Emporda
The demon attack in Vatican City Available for pre-order: Telos PublishingMore details via Paul Finch's Walking in the Dark blog Sounds wonderful; I'll definitely be getting this one! |
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Post by helrunar on Aug 3, 2023 13:19:53 GMT
Wow, this is extremely cool, and I'll be acquiring the book when the electronic edition is available.
Simon Raven wrote some terror tales set in Greece and Italy, and I seem to recall that his last published work was a vampire themed novella set somewhere in the Aegean. Of course one of his earliest novels, Doctors wear scarlet, also had this theme and in part this location.
Excellent work!
Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 3, 2023 13:22:35 GMT
.... should have added in the initial post that Terror Tales of the Mediterranean is due for Halloween.
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Post by Telos Publishing on Oct 1, 2023 13:36:44 GMT
Should be up for ebook preorder very soon now ... and of course the paperback can be ordered from www.telos.co.uk ...
David
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Post by dem bones on Nov 1, 2023 11:04:40 GMT
Fifteenth volume in this consistently rewarding series, the first set outside the UK. An inspired choice for opening stories, the first, of course familiar to those lurkers in cobwebbed corners of the haunted library.  Dave Carson: (Ro Pardoe [ed.], More Ghosts & Scholars, 1980: Karl E. Wagner [ed], Years Best Horror IX, 1981). Sicily. When a passenger falls in on a coach tour, Mr. Pearsall takes advantage of the delay to investigate a disused church, and soon regrets doing so. The wall decorations comprise a series of blasphemous mosaics depicting grisly episodes from the Bible, a celebration of evil presided over by a vampire Virgin Mary. Finding himself locked in, Pearsall intuitively realises the only alternative exit is via a Medieval catacomb .... Duo of Darkness: Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon, and the maze-dwelling Minotaur, born of bestial union between Queen Pasiphaë and a white bull. Maxim Jakubowski - On Our Way to the Shore: Narrator falls under the spell of Sirène, a gorgeous, mermaid-fixated fellow passenger aboard a Med cruise liner. But is the mystery beauty somehow implicated in two suspicious deaths aboard ship? And what are those shrivelled leathery things she wears on a necklace? Belmez: The enduring controversy surrounding the alleged coming and going of grimacing spectral faces from the concrete of María Gómez Cámara's kitchen floor. TBC .... |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 1, 2023 11:43:42 GMT
Had this on pre-order and got it today. After a dip in some of the other volumes I was curious enough.
Yep, Shilston is no stranger. I read it back then in Wagner and it pointed me to Ghosts & Scholars. A memorable one.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 3, 2023 10:55:33 GMT
Aliya Whiteley - Meet in the Middle: When two tourists fail to return from the tunnel on Eupalinos, if falls to a reluctant Peter the ticket-seller to venture in after them, Alexandra the guide approaching from the opposite opening. Still, parties come and go through this popular attraction every day of the week — it's not like the fenced off section provides refuge for something unpleasant .....
Island of the Damned: The desolate ruins of Povegalia, formerly a plague colony, in more recent times a lunatic asylum where Eugenicists could conduct vile experiments on the patients unhindered. No surprise, then, the island is believed haunted by the ghosts of the mentally and physically tortured.
Steve Duffy - The Lovers: The corpses of his many victims confront a hired assassin in a Marseilles Turkish Baths.
When Madmen Ruled the Earth: Make them die horribly! The bloody perversions of the mighty Roman Emperors, Caligula and Nero.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 3, 2023 13:53:59 GMT
Steve Duffy - The Lovers: The corpses of his many victims confront a hired assassin in a Marseilles Turkish Baths. This one impressed me with its writing. Who is Steve Duffy? I saw that he wrote a lot already and has a few collections out. |
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 3, 2023 15:35:15 GMT
Steve Duffy - The Lovers: The corpses of his many victims confront a hired assassin in a Marseilles Turkish Baths. This one impressed me with its writing. Who is Steve Duffy? I saw that he wrote a lot already and has a few collections out. His "The Night Comes On' is a great collection of Jamesian fiction that I highly recommend. |
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Post by paul Finch on Nov 3, 2023 17:54:17 GMT
This one impressed me with its writing. Who is Steve Duffy? I saw that he wrote a lot already and has a few collections out. His "The Night Comes On' is a great collection of Jamesian fiction that I highly recommend. Steve Duffy is another of British horror's best kept secrets. He's been active since the early 90s. I guarantee you won't find a single story of his that disappoints. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 3, 2023 17:56:19 GMT
This one impressed me with its writing. Who is Steve Duffy? I saw that he wrote a lot already and has a few collections out. His "The Night Comes On' is a great collection of Jamesian fiction that I highly recommend. And this is his seventh contribution to the Terror Tales series. Don't have a copy of The Night Comes On though have read a few of the stories elsewhere ( The Marsh Warden is reprinted in Terror Tales of East Anglia). For me, his The Clay Party is the highlight of Mark Valentine's splendid The Werewolf Pack for Wordsworth editions. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 4, 2023 6:23:46 GMT
And this is his seventh contribution to the Terror Tales series. Don't have a copy of The Night Comes On though have read a few of the stories elsewhere ( The Marsh Warden is reprinted in Terror Tales of East Anglia). For me, his The Clay Party is the highlight of Mark Valentine's splendid The Werewolf Pack for Wordsworth editions. I think it was the first Ash Tree Press book I ever bought. He's also a very nice chap.  |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 4, 2023 21:03:23 GMT
Beautiful cover on that book.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 5, 2023 12:02:55 GMT
I think this next might be the best to date. Don Tumasonis - The Wretched Thicket of Thorn: (Barbara & Christopher Roden [eds.], All Hallows #29, Feb. 2002: Stephen Jones [ed], Best New Horror #14, 2003). With their motor-boat stalled, Brit holidaymakers Charles and Elizabeth are stranded on a Greek island uniquely bereft of church or chapel. While his wife waits behind on the beach, Charles climbs up through a maze of thick vegetation, hoping to attract the attention of a diving crew operating in the vicinity. Hopelessly lost and frightened, Charles becomes horribly aware of something stalking him through the tangled foliage. Meanwhile, Susan has discovered pottery fragments depicting a leprous ogre ... The Blue Room: The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, the shipwrecked sailor’s curse and the chamber of phantom inferno's at the Palacio de Narros, Zarautz. |
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