Shadowplays (preorder)

(preorder—to be published in early 2025)

Dust jacket illustration by Ilan Sheady.

Published by PS. Publishing.

Note: There is a limit of one copy per person/household.

From an old regional theatre on the English coast to a Hollywood sound stage, an odd audition in London, by way of a sad and lonely hotel that attracts a series of strange residents. And much else too. Here are reflections on the nature of truth, how fiction and childish verse can impact reality, and the dangers inherent in retreating from that reality. Photographs and hauntings. Loss and longing. Just how lucky is it being lucky. Strange revenges and even stranger curses.

These nineteen tales of skewed everyday existence, divorced from the outwardly mundane world, demonstrate that all is not quite how it at first appears. These small, uneasy dramas play out in the shadows, in the twilight, hiding from the rational world.

These stories embrace the Shadows.

Limited: 100 numbered copies, signed by the contributors, in dust jacket

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
• Totu—Stephen Volk
• If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion?—Ray Bradbury
• Damaged but Adorable—Rosanne Rabinowitz
• As Far as Sacred Goes—Nancy Kilpatrick
• Stigma—Paul Kane
• The Charmed—Robert Bagnall
• Never to be Told—Colleen Anderson & Tom Johnstone
• Ever So Quietly, Ever So Softly—Gary McMahon
• I Is for Infestation—Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Fire Ghost—Gail-Nina Anderson
• Begbrook—Tim Jeffreys
• Echoes, Dying—Marion Pitman
• Commitment to Truth—Bret McCormick
• The Pit—KC Grifant
• The Long Drop Upwards—Garry Kilworth
• December’s Children—John Linwood Grant
• The Rosehill Truth Doctor—Wendy Purcell
• He Dances Alone—Joanne Anderton
• South Riding—Reggie Oliver