The Eyes of Water: first review and some news…
It is with great delight that we present to you the first review of bestselling author Alison Littlewood’s chapbook, The Eyes of Water. This one is by Walt Hicks and has been posted on his Hellbound Times book blog – the review can be accessed here. NEWS It is our great pleasure to announce that Mr. Peter … Read more
A Respectably Eloquent review
The following review, kindly put together by pablocheesecake of The Eloquent Page book blog, has just come in, less than five minutes before we wrote this blog entry. It’s a nice little review, and we particularly like this bit: “Spectral Press has a knack for publishing short stories and novellas that challenge reader perceptions and … Read more
Amazonian wonders
Over the weekend, Spectral had its Amazon review cherry popped, not once, but twice. The first of those reviews was posted by Riju Ganguly on the Amazon UK site and can be found here. The second review is by Ann Giardina Magee from all the way over in New Orleans and was posted on the … Read more
The Respectable Face of Tyranny: a quotable quote and a mini-review
So, to return to a semblance of normality after the euphoria of being nominated for some awards, here are a couple of nice things people have said about Gary Fry’s Spectral Visions novella. First a quote: “An excellent novella from Gary Fry. The Respectable Face of Tyranny is set on the North Yorkshire coast, and … 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
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
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
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
The Respectable Face of Tyranny: review #3
The reviews for Gary Fry’s novella, the debut title in the Spectral Visions line of longer works, continue to trickle in steadily. This latest one is from Geoff Nelder, which he posted to his Science42Fiction blog yesterday – here’s what Mr. Nelder said about the book. PLEASE NOTE: the limited hardback edition of this title … Read more
