Really pleased to announce that my story, 'The Call' is part of the lineup for the forthcoming anthology Blood In The Bricks from NewCon Press, and edited by Neil Williamson. It's a book of urban folk horror, and being launched at World Fantasycon in Brighton in October. The blurb, preorder links, and the stellar lineup are below:
Tales of the city redolent with ritual and drenched in dread.Folk Horror is primarily associated with isolated settings and weird beliefs. Traditionally the isolated setting is rural, but our cities have been around for a long time too, their histories constructed layer upon layer, their secrets long kept and buried deep. And there are other types of isolation than geographical remoteness: housing schemes and suburbs, gilded business districts and gated communities, industrial wastelands and crumbling tower blocks...
Who knows what our old bricks were made of or what lies beneath our brightly lit pavements? Who knows what superstitions have been passed down the generations and who knows what goes on behind the locked doors of the community centre?
Down Street – James Bennett
Danse Macabre – Kim Lakin
Hagstone – Tracy Fahey
Gerädert Fühlen – Steve Toase
The Inverse Nurse – Ian Whates
Open Studios – E Saxey
Escape Notice – Tim Major
Larking – Phil Sloman
When the Blood Runs Dry – Lyndsey Croal
A Tiding – Timothy J Jarvis
Our Sister of Blackthorn – Dan Coxon
One of The Rotten Ones – Matthew Hopkins
The Rope Swing – Penny Jones
A Pinch of Salt – Joanna Corrance
A Body’s Got to Have Hope – Angela Slatter
The Call – James Everington
Fulfilment – Harvey Welles & Phil Raines
Extraction – Don Redwood
Flip – Ray Cluley
Blood in the Bricks is available as a paperback, an ebook, and as a signed limited edition hardback signed by all the contributing authors.
