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In advance of the publication of Lost Estates by Mark Valentine, I’ve interviewed him for the publisher Swan River Press. We chat about folk horror, psychogeography, Charles George Gordon, King John’s lost treasure, Iain Sinclair, Arthur Machen, and lots of other interesting stuff. You can check it out here.
Mark Valentine’s third book with Swan River Press takes a different tack to the previous two collections, Selected Stories and Seventeen Stories, which focused on middle Europe between the wars. Lost Estates gathers stories by Valentine that share in common various aspects of folk horror, a genre that has a long and honourable tradition in … Continue reading
Pringle’s third collection of short stories finds the author exploring in greater depth some of the themes that are central to her previous work. In ‘Another Cancer Story’ a young girl deals with the slow deterioration of her father from terminal cancer and witnesses how this impacts her mother and brother, with the added complication … Continue reading
In her first novel, Hezada, I Miss You, Erin Pringle picks up on themes explored in her two short story collections, in particular the second book, The Whole World at Once, and investigates them in a more sustained and thoughtful manner. A small town in the American Midwest struggles to survive. Half the stores in … Continue reading
My good friend, Erin Pringle, invited me to list my holiday reading wish list and give list on her website last week for anyone interested in having a peek. Erin’s been posting one list a day by various writers and friends since the beginning of December, which is really worth a look. And while you’re … Continue reading
The Whole World at Once is Erin Pringle’s second collection of short stories (her first, The Floating Order, is reviewed here) and the wait has been well worth it. While The Floating Order was a finely tuned macabre look at an often incomprehensible adult world mostly through the skewed perspective of children, this new collection … Continue reading
I’m uber proud to have a short story called ‘Last Love’ featured in Uncertainties Volume I, an anthology of supernatural tales just published by the always excellent Swan River Press. The book was launched last Saturday, August 20th, at the Dublin Ghost Story Festival, the first of a hopefully annual event, in the Grand Lodge of … Continue reading
It’s been out for a few weeks now, but I’m only now getting around to officially announcing the launch of Decade 1: The Best of Albedo One, an anthology edited by myself and published by Aeon Press that gathers a personal selection of the best short stories to feature in Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of … Continue reading
I’m shocked and surprised to learn in the last couple of days that I’ve only gone and won the 2014 Independent Literary Industry Award for Best Editor. I was up against the uber-talented Angela Houle and Cynthia Shepp, so I’m doubly honoured by the award. More details of the award here, and while you’re there, … Continue reading
I’m delighted to learn I’ve been nominated for an Independent Literary Industry Award in the editor category. You can find out more about the awards here. And if you feel inclined to vote for me, you can do so here.
John Kenny 