Change of stories in Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror

I have made an alteration to the stories included in my collection from Shadow Publishing. I have removed  two of the shorter (and in my view) weaker stories and replaced them with a longer one that is previously unpublished. It's a story I wrote a short while ago on the urging of Johnny Mains who wanted me to do a sequel to The Lurkers in the Abyss. Called Lurkers, it concerns the activities of an on the run bank robber who chances across the same creatures that figure in the original story - and faces a horrifyingly Lovecraftian future when "the stars are right".

Paul Mudie, who is doing the cover for this collection, recently emailed a rough copy to Dave Sutton and myself for our approval. Based on my story Fish-Eye, it exceeds what I hoped for from him and I can't wait now to see his final version!

The new line up of stories is:

Introduction by David A. Sutton
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

His Own Mad Demons - first review

My collection from Hazardous Press got its first Amazon review today: review.

The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror

I can now reveal that a collection of my stories will be launched at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton next year. Titled The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror, the book will include most of my stories that were professionally published prior to 2000, including the title story, which originally appeared in The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror and was reprinted earlier this year in The Century's Best Horror Fiction, edited by John Pelan for Cemetery Dance.

More information soon.

The Screaming Book of Horror

Out now, this book undergoing a real time review by the unique D. F. Lewis. Catch up with it here

.