Monday morning review round-up
So, here we are at the start of yet another week, and we have a couple of reviews of The 13 Ghosts of Christmas to tell you about: First up is one by the almighty Pablocheesecake of The Eloquent Page – see what he has to say about Spectral’s first anothology here. Next, we have a write-up … Read more
Some more love for What Gets Left Behind (and Spectral)
Just a quick slice of blogging this morning (as we have a lot to catch up with here at Spectral Towers) in the form of a notification of the latest review of Mark West’s chapbook, What Gets Left Behind. This one has very kindly been written and uploaded by Pablocheesecake to his The Eloquent Page book review … Read more
The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine: an Eloquent review
Just a week until the official launch of the second Spectral Visions novella, The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine by John L. Probert, at this year’s gathering of writers, editors and publishers in Brighton at FantasyCon 2012. The reviews are now coming in regularly, and it is with great pleasure that we can announce the latest … 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
A little news…
Well, yesterday was something of a heady day for Spectral, as the imprint made it into a couple of year-end lists: First off, Jim Mcleod of The Ginger Nuts of Horror blog put Spectral at #5 in his Top Reads of 2011 post, as well as placing the editor/publisher Simon Marshall-Jones in his Stalwarts of the … Read more
More King Death reviews
Today, we have a bumper crop of reviews for the latest Spectral chapbook, Volume IV of the series, in fact we have THREE of them to tell you about. First we have one from Jim Mcleod’s Ginger Nuts of Horror website, wherein it cites the Spectral chapbooks as “…a top quality product in both production … Read more
An Eloquent Nowhere Hall review
Hot on the heels of my previous blog-post came news of another review of Nowhere Hall, this time courtesy of The Eloquent Page and reviewer pablocheesecake - and, yet again, I am pleased to report that it’s another positive one, saying that Spectral Press ‘…has delivered another classic tale…’ You can read the rest of … Read more
A review and an update
Another fine write-up of Gary Fry’s Abolisher of Roses was posted recently on The Eloquent Page website, which you can read here. I’m especially chuffed that Spectral has, in its own small way, helped rejuvenate the reviewer’s interest in the short story form – that’s one of the raisons d’etre of the imprint’s existence, to … Read more
Today’s Spectral review…
This is pablocheesecake’s take on What They Hear in the Dark, posted at The Eloquent Page review blog: —()— Rob and Becky bought the old place after the death of their son, to repair and renovate – to patch things up and make the building habitable. They both knew that they were trying to fix more than … Read more
