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I first came across the work of Beatrice Grimshaw in Swan River Press’ excellent anthology Bending to Earth – Strange Stories by Irish Women, edited by Maria Giakaniki and Brian J. Showers and published in 2019. It featured a piece by Grimshaw called ‘The Blanket Fiend’, which tells the story of an expedition into the … Continue reading
I had the good fortune to interview Victor Rees recently about his and Iain Sinclair’s assembling of a tribute to the late great Brian Catling: A Mystery of Remnant. The book gathers a number of short stories, an essay, a play and a poem, all of which admirably serve to give readers a flavour of … Continue reading
It’s often the case with a long-running original anthology series that the law of diminishing returns kicks in. This is most certainly not the case with the Uncertainties books, published by Swan River Press. And I think a key factor in the continuing vitality of this series is the policy of inviting different editors to … Continue reading
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
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