The original Argosy magazine, featuring short fiction, poetry and more, was around for nearly one hundred years until, we were told, that the market for short stories had died. Beaten to death by half hour shows on television, perhaps? However, for many of us the […]
In this, his latest anthology of humorous short stories, Jim Jackson introduces us to such well drawn characters as: Three Fingers Bone, Breadknife Baker, Greasy Gregson, Knocker Norton, Sponge Bakewell and a host of other crepuscular characters; all serving time somewhat lower in the pecking […]
Here we have a book unique in the annals of horror literature. This is a book where the stories are penned, mostly, by fortean researchers. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, ‘fortean’ refers to the works of Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 […]
Stray into the woods and forests and you will enter into another world; a world of creatures that live by their own rules, protect their own kind with fierceness, and view all strangers who venture under the protective boughs with deep suspicion. Tread the forest […]
We cannot resist the call of the sea. Enter a strange world where things are never quite what you expect, in this collection of science fiction and weird tales from Kate Kelly. Ancient ruins, lost civilisations, alien visitors and restless ghosts; sinister technology, environmental disasters, […]
Twenty tales of High Strangeness featuring conspiracy theorists, mad scientists, hippies, geeks and miscellaneous weirdos: A group of Cambridge academics investigate a crashed UFO… An outcast scientist discovers the secret of anti-gravity… A paranormal author finds himself prime suspect in the Case of the Purloined […]
In this new anthology of short stories West Country author Jim Jackson takes a lead in the restoration of this once popular genre , and in so doing escorts us upon a wide ranging flight of the imagination. From Orpington and Africa to Australia and […]
An ordinary day at the beach turns into an amazing and exciting magical adventure through time, when Henry Owl discovers a dinosaur tooth washed up on the shore.Henry is a young Snowy Owl, who discovers a magical dinosaur tooth at the seaside whilst looking for […]
In Edo Period Japan, the game of Hyakumonogatari – or one hundred stories – was a popular pastime. A hundred candles in blue lanterns were lit and placed on a table before a mirror. Each person would tell a story of a ghost, monster or […]
Readers (see reviews) say it made them scared, made them laugh and made them cry, are you prepared to go through these powerful emotions and read DARK WEAR? “Paul rubbed his eyes. It can’t be! He looked again. The large black cat, the size of […]