The Eyes of Water cover art: full wraparound
After unveiling the front cover artwork to Alison Littlewood’s chapbook The Eyes of Water last week, we now very proudly reveal to you the whole wraparound cover to it. Once again, the mighty Neil Williams has created the perfect visual encapsulation of the story contained within and we couldn’t have wished for anything better. Hope you … Read more
Dark Musings on The Respectable Face of Tyranny
The reviews of the debut novella in the Spectral Visions line, The Respectable Face of Tyranny by Gary Fry, are trickling in slowly but surely. This latest one is by Anthony Watson, curator of the Dark Musings blog, and you can read what he has to say about the limited hardback edition here. That edition is … Read more
The Eyes of Water by Alison Littlewood: cover concept
Once more it’s time to reveal the cover concept artwork for a forthcoming publication, namely Volume VI in the ever-popular chapbook series of short stories from some of the finest contemporary genre authors. This time it’s the turn of Alison Littlewood, author of A Cold Season, her debut novel, which topped several bestseller lists and was … Read more
The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine: a short update
As most of you will be aware, Spectral are publishing a new novella this September, The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert, a homage to the films of that venerable actor, the late Vincent Price. Expressions of interest in purchasing a copy of the limited signed hardback are already being solicited, but as … Read more
Dreadful Tales takes on Rough Music
And so, here we are at the start of yet another week and, like we seem to do most Mondays, we bring you news of another new review. Following promptly on the heels of their review of Paul Finch’s King Death, Dreadful Tales posted a write-up on Volume V in the chapbook series, Simon Kurt Unsworth’s Rough … Read more
The Respectable Face of Tyranny: the Hardback has landed
We very rarely blog on a Saturday, but we do occasionally make exceptions, and this is one of them – we just had to show you this photograph of the limited hardbacks, sitting pretty on Gary Fry’s table before being signed. Copies will start shipping next week. Enjoy!!
King Death: a new review from Dreadful Tales
One of the pleasures of running Spectral Press is when we receive a review of one of the previous publications in the chapbook line and that’s exactly what happened yesterday, when Colum McKnight of Dreadful Tales posted a write-up of Paul Finch’s King Death chapbook. It’s quite an in-depth review, but to discover what Colum says … Read more
Spectral Visions #2: The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine
Do you remember all those wonderful films starring Vincent Price, like Masque of the Red Death, Theatre of Blood, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes Rises Again and Witchfinder General? Well, John Llewellyn Probert, author of the second in the Spectral Visions series of novellas, certainly does. The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine is a gruesome but immensely … Read more
A Rough Music solo spot
Just a quick blog today, to let you know about a brief review of Simon Kurt Unsworth’s chapbook which has just been posted at Paul D. Brazill’s You Would Say That, Wouldn’t You blog, which you can read here. You can also read a Short Sharp Interview with Spectral mainman Simon Marshall-Jones on the same … Read more
