The Lurkers in the Abyss

I have been working my way through my stories for the collection that Noose & Gibbet Press will be publishing next year, slightly revising them and checking for typos. Some of these stories, which I have arranged in chronological order in which they were first published, I haven't reread for more years than I care to think. It's been a fascinating voyage of rediscovery. And interesting to see how my writing style has altered so much since then.

The stories are:

The Lurkers in the Abyss was first published in The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror (Pan Books, 1970)

After Nightfall was first published in The Year’s Best Horror 1 (Sphere Books, UK and DAW Books, USA, 1971)

The Farmhouse was first published in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural (Sphere Books, 1971)

A Bottle of Spirits was first published in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural 2 (Sphere Books, 1972)

The Urn was first published in Whispers (Whispers Press, 1972)

Terror on the Moors was first published in World of Horror (1974)

The Shade of Apollyon was first published in World of Horror (1974)

The Satyr’s Head was first published in The Satyr’s Head & Other Tales of Terror (Corgi Books, 1975)

Prickly was first published in Death (Playboy Paperbacks, 1982)

Writer’s Cramp was first published in Fantasy Tales (1988)

Winter on Aubarch 6 was first published in Fear (1989)

Retribution was first published in Peeping Tom (1991)

The Shadow by the Altar was first published in Peeping Tom (1992)

Out of Corruption was first published in The Mammoth Book of Zombies (Robinson Books, 1993)

A New Lease was first published in The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural (Tiger Books, 1994)

Gwargens was first published in Beyond (Parallel Universe Publications, 1995)

No Sense in Being Hungry, She Thought was first published in Peeping Tom (1996)

Help-plants was first published in Aboriginal Science Fiction (1998)

Hoody was first published in When Graveyards Yawn (Crowswing Books, 2006)

Inside the Labyrinth was first published in Alone on the Darkside (ROC Books, 2006)