Pleased to announce that my story ‘Four Abstracts’ will feature in an all-new horror anthology from Titan, New Fears. Edited by Mark Morris, New Fears is scheduled for publication this September and here’s the full Table of Contents:
THE BOGGLE HOLE – ALISON LITTLEWOOD
SHEPHERDS’ BUSINESS – STEPHEN GALLAGHER
NO GOOD DEED – ANGELA SLATTER
THE FAMILY CAR – BRADY GOLDEN
FOUR ABSTRACTS – NINA ALLAN
SHELTERED IN PLACE – BRIAN KEENE
THE FOLD IN THE HEART – CHAZ BRENCHLEY
DEPARTURES – A.K. BENEDICT
THE SALTER COLLECTION – BRIAN LILLIE
SPEAKING STILL – RAMSEY CAMPBELL
THE EYES ARE WHITE AND QUIET – CAROLE JOHNSTONE
THE EMBARRASSMENT OF DEAD GRANDMOTHERS – SARAH LOTZ
EUMENIDES (THE BENEVOLENT LADIES) – ADAM NEVILL
ROUNDABOUT – MURIEL GRAY
THE HOUSE OF THE HEAD – JOSH MALERMAN
SUCCULENTS – CONRAD WILLIAMS
DOLLIES – KATHRYN PTACEK
THE ABDUCTION DOOR – CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
THE SWAN DIVE – STEPHEN LAWS
‘Four Abstracts’ is a follow-up of sorts to my 2007 novella A Thread of Truth, and yes, spiders do feature. It’s set mainly in Hartland, a village in West Devon that I knew I wanted to write about from the moment I first visited it. I’m very fond of these characters, who may yet have more stories to tell…