Supernatural Tales

  Here it is, large as life and twice as spooky! All-new fiction by a host of talents, mostly British but also including our first-ever contribution from Germany.  Here is the table of contents. You Roger Luckhurst     Braunhoffer’s Coaches Martin Ruf     Violet Rosanne Rabinowitz     Corpsed Matthew G. Rees     The Haunting of Ian Bland Lisa Pritchard     Hell Is James Everington     The Hands of Men Sam Dawson Click this link & it takes you to all available print-on-demand issues (It will also take you to EPUB versions)

Splendidly atsmopheric cover by John Coulthart ' Friends and Spectres is a companion volume to Ghosts of the Chit-Chat (2020), an anthology of ghost stories by authors who had been members of the Cambridge University Chit-Chat Club along with M. R. James. Here the associations with MRJ are less formal, but stronger and more enduring: for it is the bond of genuine friendship that ties these writers to him. 'The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over half appeared first in amateur magazines or local newspapers. All deal with the supernatural, and several of the stories are themselves spectres—or more properly “revenants”, only now re-emerging into the light after decades of oblivion. There are rediscoveries here of “lost” tales by Arthur Reed Ropes, E. G. Swain, and the enigmatic “B.”' Thus spake the blurb! I greatly enjoyed Ghosts of the Chit-Cha t and am pleased to report that Robert Lloyd Parry has once more done a thorough job of sel...