The Way of the Leaves: cover reveal
Here it is – the cover to December’s chapbook, The Way of the Leaves by David Tallerman, the winner of the Spectral Press/This is Horror short story competition held earlier this year. The photo was taken by a very good friend of ours, Lyn Jenner, and once again the talents of the magnificent Neil Williams have … Read more
The 13 Ghosts of Christmas: the full wraparound cover
This morning Spectral Towers is completely fogbound – a fortuitously appropriate atmosphere in which, we deem, to reveal the eerily beautiful wraparound cover to The 13 Ghosts of Christmas anthology, due to be published this time next month. We think that the combination of Vincent Shaw-Morton’s and Neil Williams’ talents have created yet another winner here. … Read more
What Gets Left Behind: cover and video trailer
A beautiful Wednesday morning here in the UK, which means that we are getting our summer later in the year like we did in 2011. To add to the general feelgood factor we proudly present to you the cover, by the inestimable Neil Williams, of the latest Spectral chapbook, What Gets Left Behind by Mark West … Read more
The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine: the final cover!
So, feast your eyes on the graphic gorgeosity of the cover to the limited hardback of John L. Probert’s Spectral Visions novella above (is gorgeosity a real word?Well, if it isn’t, we don’t care, because it fits absolutely perfectly with what we think of the image…), courtesy of the brilliant JD Busch with graphics and … Read more
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
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 Respectable Face of Tyranny: cover concept preview
We here at Spectral don’t normally blog this late in the day, but we just had to show you the absolutely superb job that artist Neil Williams has done for the cover concept for Gary Fry’s The Respectable Face of Tyranny, the debut novella in the Spectral Visions line. It’s based on a wonderfully atmospheric photograph … Read more
Revealed: Rough Music cover concept
The above beautifully atmospheric image, by the excellent Neil Williams, is the cover concept artwork to Simon Kurt Unsworth’s Rough Music, to be published in March 2012 – there are still a few very minor tweaks needed here and there, but this is what we’re running with. It neatly encapsulates the mood of Simon’s story: … Read more
Spectral Vol. IV: King Death cover design
So, here it is – the stunning artwork pictured below, created by the estimable Neil Williams, will be the cover to Paul Finch’s King Death, due out 5th DECEMBER 2011 (bear in mind that there’s a little extra text to go there as well yet). The chapbook itself will be available to pre-order in October, but … Read more
