Reviews and news – 22:04:2103
To start the week off, here’s a new, short review of Paul Kane’s Spectral chapbook Creakers - this one is from Theresa Derwin and has been posted to her Terror Tree blog. You can read what Theresa thought of it here. NEWS This month’s issue of Fortean Times (#301 – cover above), the magazine that brings to light all … Read more
Whitstable book launch
Spectral is very proud to announce that Stephen Volk’s Whitstable novella will launched in… WHITSTABLE MUSEUM, WHITSTABLE, KENT on 25th May 2013 between 5pm & 6:30pm, as a part of the Whit Lit Festival – a very fitting place in which to do so. There will be a Q&A session with Stephen, and afterwards there will … Read more
Season’s Greetings from Spectral!
We would like to wish all our customers, past, present & future, the most joyful of Christmases and a Peaceful and Fulfilling New Year! We will be back soon, with some new and exciting projects! Watch out for our end of year assessment blog coming very soon! Simon & Liz Marshall-Jones PS: All the copies of The … Read more
Monday morning goodness: 29th October 2012
Various bits of news to get through this morning, so you won’t find us dallying on this beautifully sunny but cold autumn day: First up is a new review of Mark West’s What Gets Left Behind, the latest in Spectral’s renowned chapbook line. This one’s from Stanley Riiks, editor of the Morpheus Tales Review Supplement, which he … Read more
FantasyCon 2012: A spectacular success
It has to be said that, without a shadow of a doubt, this year’s FantasyCon was THE best one we’ve attended. Certainly, from Spectral’s perspective, this was undoubtedly an unqualified success – but more on that later. The Spectral staffers (all two of us) journeyed to the seaside resort of Brighton on the south coast … Read more
FantasyCon: the 2012 edition
It’s that time of the year once more, when the widely dispersed clans of Writers, Publishers and Editors all gather in some hotel somewhere (in the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton again this year) and chat about all things genre and books. This year, unlike our previous attendances, things are slightly different for us: we … Read more
Competition time!! News!!
Yes indeed, it’s competition time over on the Read Horror website and what a competition it is too!! Spectral has teamed up with this great magazine to bring you an absolute stonker of a short story writing contest, with prizes to match, to wit: “The grand prize is a lifetime’s subscription to every single publication put out by … Read more
Halloween Horror Event!
This one is mainly aimed at those in the UK who are looking for somewhere different to go to on Halloween night – an event featuring three of the best writers working within the horror genre in Britain today, including a Spectral author! Eack of the guests will be doing a reading, plus discussing their … Read more
FantasyCon 2011: the report
ROYAL ALBION HOTEL, BRIGHTON, 30TH SEPTEMBER – 2ND OCTOBER 2011 Here I sit, nearly a whole week after setting off for Brighton with my wife Liz, to join hundreds of like-minded people for a weekend of great conversation, good food, good drink, literary larks and, most importantly, books (oh, and a pantomine – more on … Read more
