TEN STRANGE ROBERT AICKMAN TALES

Robert Aickman was a British writer, editor and conservationist born in 1914. He described his own stories as ‘Strange Tales’ and they display a distinctive style all his own. He also edited the first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. In 1979 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short […]

SIXTEEN EERIE TALES BY STEVE RASNIC TEM

Steve Rasnic Tem is an award winning American, speculative fiction writer of novels and more than 430 short stories. The novella The Man On The Ceiling, which he cowrote with his late wife Melanie, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards in 2001. Steve has won many awards for his solo […]

TERROR TALES OF THE COTSWOLDS ANTHOLOGY REVIEW

TERROR TALES OF THE COTSWOLDS ANTHOLOGY REVIEW Recently, I’ve become hooked on the Terror Tales of… series of anthologies edited by Paul Finch. I previously posted reviews of both Terror Tales of the Seaside ( https://horrordelve.com/2018/05/07/terror-tales-of-the-seaside-review/ ) and Terror Tales of the Lake District ( https://horrordelve.com/2019/04/08/terror-tales-of-the-lake-district-anthology-review/ ). With the trip I’d scheduled to visit England […]

BEFORE YOU BLOW OUT THE CANDLE ANTHOLOGY REVIEW

Before You Blow Out the Candle (2020) is an anthology of ten stories edited by Marc Damian Lawler. These stories range from the chillingly creepy, as with “A Troublesome History” and “Steepe Holm”, to more lighthearted ghost stories, as with both of Lawler’s “The Ghost’s of St. James’ Cemetery” story contributions, to the Twilight Zone-ish […]

CREATURES OF THE POOL BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

Creatures Of The Pool (published in 2010) follows Gavin Meadows, a man who gives tours through Liverpool highlighting the macabre histories of the area including the noting of locations associated with a Jack the Ripper suspect, Spring Heel Jack and places where notable historical figures reportedly went mad, etc. In recent days, Gavin’s usually upbeat […]

THANA NIVEAU ARTICLE

Thana Niveau is an American horror writer who lives in England with her husband John Llewellyn Probert who is also a prominent writer of horror fiction. Thana has had two short story collections receive nominations for a British Fantasy Award in From Hell to Eternity (2013) and Octoberland (2019). Her haunted house novel House […]

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN

Born on Halloween in 1852, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman went on to become a successful American fiction writer. She produced many novels and short stories and became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1926. Through her writing she helped […]