Friday 26 October 2018

Listen to After Nightfall being read on The Gallery of Curiosities

You can now listen to one of my earliest short stories, After Nightfall, being read on The Gallery of Curiosities by Vic Mullin. Just tap on the link above.

This story first appeared in David A. Sutton's fanzine Weird Window, and was reprinted the following year in Sphere Books' The Year's Best Horror Stories, edited by Richard Davis.

It was last reprinted in Otto Penzler's Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (Vintage Books) in 2011.







Covers of the books and magazines in which this story was previously published:



Cover of Weird Window (artwork by David A. Riley)







Thursday 25 October 2018

Romero's Children to be published in Russian webzine Darker.

I am pleased to reveal that my story, Romero's Children, will be translated and published in the next issue of the Russian webzine, Darker.

Romero's Children will be in their zombie issue - link to advert.


Tuesday 9 October 2018

Great review for Moloch's Children on BFS website

There was a great review for my horror novel, Moloch's Children, on the BFS website by Ian Hunter.

"This is my kind of book, only 213 pages long with a prologue and epilogue and 36 chapters in between, evidence of how fast-paced a novel “Moloch’s Children” is; in a tale that reminded me of the works of Dennis Wheatley, Ramsay Campbell and Richard Matheson; although it’s not as “quiet” as these last two writers. In his short fiction, Riley has never been one to s