Strange Tales

This collection of fourteen new stories, repressenting the best writing in the fields of super-natural, fantasy and horror fiction, will entertain, chill and delight in equal measure.

Immersed in both traditional themes and twenty-first century anxieties, the stories range from the folk-tale melancholy of Anne-Sylvie Salzman's 'Meannanaich', to the pleasing mystery of a new Connoisseur story by Mark Valentine and John Howard, 'The Descent of the Fire'; from the seductive horror of Quentin S. Crisp's 'Cousin X', to the visceral terror of Adam Daly's 'The Self-Eater'.

There are ghosts too; a Classically Greek one in John Gaskin's 'From Lydia with Love and Laughter'; and a fang-trace of vampirism in William Charlton's 'The Grand Hotel'. In 'Eye of the Storm', Don Tumasonis imbues a semi-autobiographical memoir with a troubling undercurrent of unease, whilst in Brendan Connell's 'The Maker of Fine Instruments' the horror is more up-front: it is a warped, Grimm-like morality fable that is not for the faint-hearted.

Fans of Rhys Hughes will delight in the post-modern pyrotechnics of 'The Itchy Skin of Creepy Aplomb', and Tina Rath's historical tour-de-force 'Mr Manpferdit' brilliantly evokes the eighteenth-century London, and the secret desires, of Boswell and Dr Johnson.

• Quentin S. Crisp
• Anne-Sylvie Salzman
• David Rix
• Brendan Connell
• Rhys Hughes
• Mark Valentine & John Howard
• Adam Daly
• William Charlton
• Dale Nelson
• Tina Rath
• Nina Allan
• Len Maynard & Mick Sims
• John Gaskin
• Don Tumasonis

Strange Tales is a sewn hardback book of 289+vi pages with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w and is a second Tartarus printing

Limited to 300 copies and SOLD OUT at the publisher