Interview with Stephen Volk at Fangoria.com
What better way to start off the week than with a fantastic in-depth interview with Stephen Volk, the author of Whitstable, conducted by Sean Hogan (Hallowe’en Sessions, Lie Still, The Devil’s Business) and posted to the website of one of the most popular and respected of genre magazines, Fangoria.com. This really is a wonderfully insightful interview, looking at the reasons … Read more
Spectral chapbook slipcases
As a special service to our readers and subscribers, we are now offering a way to keep those precious issues of the chapbooks pristine – with the new Spectral chapbook slipcases. Each one of these sturdy artefacts will hold eight A5 size chapbooks, will be covered in black Wibalin buckram cloth and have the Spectral … Read more
Spectral Press: 2012 retrospective
It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to describing the year Spectral has had. 2011, the imprint’s very first year, was great in itself, and we here at Spectral Towers couldn’t have foreseen how the press would have been taken to the hearts of genre and book lovers everywhere around the globe. … Read more
Competition reminder…
This time last month, we launched a small competition whereby anyone who purchased a paperback copy of Gary Fry’s Spectral Visions novella, The Respectable Face of Tyranny, could win themselves a signed proof-sheet of the cover (which is infinitely suitable for framing), for which the deadline was today. But we have decided, in our infinite wisdom, … Read more
Simon Kurt Unsworth’s Rough Music: the trailer
Once again, Mark West has produced a lovely video book-trailer to go with the latest Spectral chapbook, Simon Kurt Unsworth’s Rough Music, which is due to be launched upon the world at the end of February/beginning of March 2012. This one has, unfortunately, sold out already, but you can still get yourself a subscription (for … Read more
This Is Horror Awards 2011
Spectral has had a spectacular first year and you out there can add to the rise of the imprint by voting for it in the inaugural This Is Horror Awards (This Is Horror was formerly known as Read Horror and See Horror – the two merged recently). Spectral Press has been nominated in two categories: … Read more
Season’s Greetings from Spectral!!
So, here we are yet again, at midwinter’s turn of the year, where light returns slowly but surely to lengthen the days and bring renewal to life in all its myriad glories. Or the season of drinking, eating and spending too much, depending on your point of view (although that won’t be happening at Spectral … Read more
Spectral’s first year: a retrospective review
The above picture, as unassuming as it will look to most, represents a personal triumph. Why? Well, wearing heart on sleeve for a moment, at the beginning of 2010, I wasn’t in a very good place – I’d just had to shut the doors on a project I’d put my heart and soul into for … Read more
Musings on a Monday morning….
As you all know, the Spectral chapbooks are strictly limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. The reason for this was and still is simply financial, as the imprint was created from practically nothing and, in all honesty, I never imagined that things would take off for Spectral in the way they have. My initial … Read more
