June 01, 2008

New story appearances

Here are updated details on some new short stories of mine.


"Club Saudade"

If you're not familiar with the word saudade, the Wikipedia definition and article is very good. This story comes with two snapshots I took of the old Bristol Company factory in Waterbury, and is posted now at Horror World: http://www.horrorworld.org/


"Something Small and Gray, and Quick"

This story is included in the anthology Read Your Fears, edited by Nina Ely, available on June 19th from Amazon and Tricorner Publishing. Other contributing authors include Jack Ketchum, Peter Crowther, P D Cacek, Joe Lansdale, Chet Williamson and F Paul Wilson. Proceeds from the book's sales will go to help children at the Johns Hopkins Children's Cancer Center. http://www.tricornerpublishing.com/Books/ReadYourFears.html


"The Woman in the Club Car"

This one is now scheduled to appear in Cemetery Dance #60, which will also include an interview with me conducted by Sam W Anderson. I've always preferred trains to any other form of transport, and have made use of the New Haven line to/from Manhattan since I was a teenager. Years ago, my friend Dennis Ferado gave me an anthology of horror stories set on trains, and since then it was just a matter of time before I got around to writing one myself. This is it, or at least the first.

 

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1 - You do know that you make the rest of us look slow and plodding, don't you? But, as a fan, I LOVE it! Keep 'em comin'! --Trish (Comment this)

Written by: Trish at 2008/06/02 - 14:52:16
2 - Thanks, Trish, but I still think I'm the slowest. Tom (Comment this)

Written by: Tom at 2008/06/02 - 19:15:33
3 - Printed out "Club Saudade" last night to read in bed. Great stuff, wonderfully suspenseful. Thanks a million for that. (Comment this)

Written by: markymark at 2008/06/03 - 10:32:15
4 - The perfect time and place to read a horror story -- at night, in bed. Thank you, Mark.
Tom (Comment this)

Written by: Tom at 2008/06/03 - 19:00:56
5 - Have you ever read Stefan Grabinski? I believe he wrote a whole book of horror stories about trains, called The Motion Demon. Some of them have been translated into an English collection, The Dark Domain, which is well worth reading despite the author's fondness for ending on three dots... (Comment this)

Written by: Philip at 2008/06/03 - 21:37:52
6 - Philip, yes, I've read Grabinski, I have the Dedalus paperback edition of The Dark Domain, and I do like his stories a great deal -- who else managed to mix the unlikely combination of the erotic and the mechanical so convincingly? A powerful, wild talent, he died far too young. I hope that a complete collected edition appears in English in my lifetime. Tom (Comment this)

Written by: Tom at 2008/06/04 - 04:28:02
7 - That's another one I'll have to dig out of the stacks and re-read now - see what you've gone and done?

I've always enjoyed train journeys myself, though I understand they've lost a lot of their charm since our national rail system was reduced to its present profitable-for-some chaos. The London Tube, on the other hand - now, there's a setting for a horror story or several. Grey mechanical worms glutted with human flesh, shrieking through the urban underbelly... (Comment this)

Written by: Philip at 2008/06/04 - 22:01:40
8 - Tom, I think your train story was fantastic...as the kids call it, "da bomb." Or so I hear - I'm kinda out of that loop. However, I might be biased on this one. Not that I care, but I should probably acknowledge that.

I'm glad to see so many shorts appearing (there's really not a mature way to write that). As I've said before, your novels are great, but I think the short form is where you excel the most.

Sam A. (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2008/06/04 - 23:43:59
9 - Thank you, Sam, your words about my story (and stories) are much appreciated.

Philip, for years I took the train once a month from London to Salisbury to attend a board meeting in Dorset. I had some of the best breakfasts of my life on British Rail. The food was superb, eggs done perfectly whether poached or sunny-side-up, racks of toast still warm, grilled cherry tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms, wonderful bacon, ham or fat farm sausages, pots of coffee or tea, a window table, white tablecloth, uniformed wait-staff. I don't know how they did it, they must have had a kind of mini-mobile version of Arnold Bennett's Savoy Hotel kitchen tucked away in an extra car. I was on an expense account at the time, but even so, the price seemed dirt cheap. I am almost afraid to ask if such service survives today, and if so, what it costs.

Tom
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Written by: Tom at 2008/06/05 - 03:20:37
10 - just read 'Club Saudade' earlier today . . . very nice. I've probably passed by that old factory a million times. it's awesome to see all the new stories coming out - guess i can't bug ya about when you got something new coming, huh? ;)

ps - there seems to be some kinda weird glitch where your post and the comments are cut off on one side. thought i'd give ya a heads up. or is it me?... (Comment this)

Written by: gammy at 2008/06/05 - 20:31:12
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