THE SCREAMING BOOK OF HORROR -signed by Reggie Oliver

This anthology will hopefully remind you of a time when horror books didn’t try to be overly literary or snobbish or superior in tone. The tales inside will take you back to when your stomach took the occasional lurch. Stories that might be found by a teenager fifty years down the line when he or she discovers the book in a relative’s bookcase, or whatever passes for a second hand bookshop in the future, and give them the fire in their belly to try their hand at writing a horror story. This is a horror anthology in the tradition of the anthologies we all grew up with. Table of Contents Christenings Can Be Dangerous – John Llewellyn Probert Larva – John Brunner The Swarm – Alison Littlewood Natural Selection – Robin Ince One of the Family – Bernard Taylor Cut! – Anna Taborska The Christmas Toys – Paul Finch The Quixote Candidate – Rhys Hughes Helping Mummy – Kate Farrell The City of Plenty – Alex Miles The Iron Cross – Craig Herbertson Sometimes You Think You Are Alone – Alison Moore Bird Doll – Claire Massey What Shall We Do About Barker? – Reginald Oliver Old Grudge Ender – David A. Riley Jack and Jill – Steve Rasnic Tem The Blackshore Dreamer – John Burke Imagination – Christopher Fowler The Baby Trap – Janine-Langley Wood The Tip Run – Johnny Mains Dementia – Charlie Higson

Johnny Mains' first book as editor was the British Fantasy Award winning Back From The Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories, published through his Noose and Gibbet imprint. He was Project Editor on Pan Macmillan's critically acclaimed relaunch of the very first Pan Book of Horror Stories, originally published in 1959, to which he supplied an informative historical background to the series. He has also published Herbert van Thal's 'lost' collection The Mask and Other Stories and his debut collection, With Deepest Sympathy was published by Obverse Books.