David A. Riley began writing horror stories while still at school and had his first professional sale to Pan Books in 1969, which was The Lurkers in the Abyss, published in The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories. This story was chosen for inclusion in The Centurys Best Horror Fiction in 2012. Over the years he has had numerous stories published in Britain and the United States
plus translations into German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. His fiction has appeared in World of Horror, Fear, Whispers, Fantasy Tales, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries and Lovecraft e-Zine.

His first...

The tenth volume of Mortbury Press's Black Book of Horror anthology series contains 15 new stories. STIFF --- Angela Blake THE EASTER BUNNY --- Tom Johnstone THE LAST TESTAMENT OF JACOB TYLER --- David Surface THE WAR EFFORT --- Carl P. Thompson THE PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTING --- David A. Sutton CHRISTMAS IN THE RAIN --- Chris Lawton DEEPER THAN DARK WATER --- Gary Power MARSHWALL --- Paul Finch EXPLODING RAPHAELESQUE HEADS --- Ian Hunter THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER --- John Llewellyn Probert THE PYGMALION CONJURATION --- Mike Chinn THE BOY --- David Williamson THE LAST WAGON IN THE TRAIN --- Andrea...

Samantha Lee can tell a great story, be it heart-rending horror or charming jokey fantasies, such as 'Take Five' and 'Scoop'. These will be a little light relief from the razor edged terrors in other stories such as 'The Island of the Seals' and 'Nobody Thinks He's A Bad Guy'. She has a way of depicting torture and cruelty, often with a sharp eye on the humanitarian issues. These are dark stories indeed, told with just the right dollop of horror to thoroughly unnerve the reader. And if you want ghosts and mythical beings, there's 'Cat's Cradle' and 'Over My Dead Body', each of them unnerving...

Houses on the borderland of madness and horror Houses are where we live, eat, sleep, love, dream. Houses are our private worlds, the places we find shelter from a cruel universe. But houses are also the venues of horrors and nightmares. A seaside home, a school, a fantasy castle, a lighthouse, a wooden hut, a run-down tower block - all are tainted by an abnormal atmosphere. Be wary of what's beyond the entranceway. For we have six dwellings eager to molest the human spirit at its lowest ebb, its most vulnerable time. Welcome... please step across the threshold... Six terrifying novellas by...