A press release from David Sutton:
David Sutton’s Shadow Publishing announce the publication of The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales by Richard Davis (1935-2005). The 240-page trade paperback (£7.99, ISBN: 978-0-9539032-4-5) has a cover by Caroline O’Neal.
Richard never saw a collection of his stories published in his lifetime and this book includes all of the author’s short stories, culled from as far back as 1963 and The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories up to the 1980s. The collection contains an introduction about his life, the fiction and anthologies, including his work as story editor for the BBC’s Late Night Horror series. The book will also feature two rare articles and an interview with the author, from the late 1960s.
“At the time I interviewed Richard for my small press magazine in 1969, he was already an established short story writer, had compiled two anthologies for Tandem Books and the BBC series Out of the Unknown, for which he worked as assistant story editor, had been on air since 1965… Yet, some forty plus years later, Richard’s fiction has largely been forgotten. Although not prolific, he was widely published in anthologies in England. Yet he never saw a collection of his tales published during his lifetime. Hence this book and its integration into a projected series under the collective tag, Writers from the Shadows.” (From the Introduction).
Contents:
Introduction by David A. Sutton
The Female of the Species
Elsie and Agnes
A Day Out
The Lady by the Stream
The Inmate
A Nice Cut off the Joint
Guy Fawkes Night
The Time of Waiting
The Sick Room
The Clump
The Nondescript
What We Were Looking for in Horror
An Interview with Richard Davis
Horror in Fiction
Bibliography
The cover artist is the painter and illustrator Caroline O’Neal. Caroline has done dark fantasy illustration for Bad Moon Books, Premonitions and Midnight Street magazines, among others.
More Information:
Personal website: http://davidasutton.co.uk/Question.html
Shadow Publishing site: http://www.shadowpublishing.webeasysite.co.uk
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