My story After Nightfall reprinted in the Phantasmagoria Fantasy Tales Special

It was nice to see one of my earliest stories, After Nightfall, reprinted yet again, this time in the massive Phantasmagoria Fantasy Tales Special. 

This story previously appeared in the following:

1970 Weird Window 1, Shadow Publishing edited by David A. Sutton

1971 The Year's Best Horror Fiction 1, Sphere Books & DAW Books edited by Richard Davis

1985 Fantasy Tales #15 edited by Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton

1992 Tayaschiysya Horror 2, (Таящийся ужас 2) published in Russia, translated by Vladimir Vladimirov

2011 Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! edited by Otto Penzler, Vintage Books

2012 Zombies: A Compendium of the Living Dead edited by Otto Penzler, Corvus/Atlantic Books

2013 The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror, Shadow Publishing

2017 Gallery of Curiosities edited by Kevin Frost

2018 Gallery of Curiosities webzine edited by Kevin Frost

2020 After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales, Parallel Universe Publications

2022 Phantasmagoria Fantasy Tales Special edited by Trevor Kennedy

My short story collections

Below are details of all my short story collections, what stories are in them, and where they are published, plus links to ordering copies online.

The Lurkers in the Abyss and Other Tales of Terror - Shadow Publishing 2013

The Lurkers in the Abyss, After Nightfall, Terror on the Moors, The Shade of Apollyon, Prickly, Writer's Cramp, Winter on Aubarch 6, The Shadow by the Altar, Out of Corruption, A New Lease, Help-Plants, Inside the Labyrinth, A Sense of Movement, Soft Little Fingers, His Pale Blue Eyes, Fish Eye, Lurkers.

amazon.co.uk    amazon.com

His Own Mad Demons: Dark Tales from David A. Riley - Originally Hazardous Press, now Parallel Universe Publications 2012 and 2015

Their Own Mad Demons, Lock-In, The Fragile Mask on his Face,The True Spirit, The Worst of All Possible Places.

amazon.co.uk   amazon.com

Their Cramped Dark World & Other Tales - Originally published by Hazardous Press, now Parallel Universe Publications 2015

Hoody, A Bottle of Spirits, No Sense in Being Hungry, She Thought, Now and Forever More, Romero's Children, Swan Song, The Farmhouse, The Last Coach Trip, The Satyr's Head, Their Cramped Dark World

amazon.co.uk   amazon.com  

After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales - Parallel Universe Publications 2020

Three Eyed Jack, The Fragile Mask on His Face, Terror on the Moors, The Shade of Apollyon, Writer's Cramp, Fish Eye, Boat Trip, Prickly, After Nightfall

Illustrated throughout by Jim Pitts

amazon.co.uk   amazon.com

A Grim God's Revenge: Dark Tales of Fantasy & Horror - Parallel Universe Publications 2021

Lem, Scrap, The Urn, Hanuman, Gwargens, Retribution, The Bequest, Corpse-Maker, Old Grudge Ender, Dead Ronnie and I, Grudge End Cloggers, A Grim God's Revenge, They Pissed on My Sofa, A Girl, a Toad and a Cask

amazon.co.uk   amazon.com

 

 

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)

The Gallery of Curiosities

Received my contributor's copy of the lovely little publication, The Gallery of Curiosities, in the post today, courtesy of its editor and publisher, Kevin Frost, the print version of the podcast. https://gallerycurious.com/
It contains my story After Nightfall, which has been published several times already, notably in The Year's Best Horror 1 edited by Richard Davis, Fantasy Tales, and more recently in Otto Penzler's mammoth collection Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! - as well as in an unauthorised Russian translation in the early 90s! It's also included in my own collection, The Lurkers in the Abyss and other Tales of Terror (Shadow Publishing).

After Nightfall - Russian version

This Russian anthology from 1992 arrived in the post today. It contains a translation of my story After Nightfall. The black and white illustration appears to be of this story - sort of...

Other writers in the book include Richard Matheson and Ramsey Campbell. Brought out not long after the fall of Communism, it's an odd little hard cover book.

Interview of Otto Penzler re Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

Just came across an interview with Otto Penzler about his massive anthology Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (Zombies: a Compendium in the UK). The last question he is asked is: "If a reader has an opportunity to read only one story from Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, which one would you recommend?" He would recommend two: "...the stories that jump to mind are Seabrook's "Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields" because it's such a comprehensive introduction in the genre, and David A. Riley's "After Nightfall" because it is, holy moley, so damned scary."

What can I say?