Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales

Shadow Publishing's David Sutton has announced The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales by Richard Davis, due 2012. (£7.99; ISBN: 978-0-9539032-4-5; Cover Artwork by Caroline O'Neal)

Richard (1935-2005) never saw a collection of his stories published in his lifetime and this book includes all of the author's short stories, culled from as far back as 1963 and The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories, up to the 1980s. The collection contains an introduction about his life, the fiction and anthologies, including his work as story editor for the BBC's Late Night Horror series. The book will also feature two rare articles and an interview with the author, from the late 1960s.

Contents:
Introduction by David A. Sutton
The Female of the Species
Elsie and Agnes
A Day Out
The Lady by the Stream
The Inmate
A Nice Cut off the Joint
Guy Fawkes Night
The Time of Waiting
The Sick Room
The Clump
The Nondescript
What We Were Looking for in Horror
An Interview with Richard Davis
Horror in Fiction
Bibliography

Further details here and here.

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