Shadowplays (Signed Hardcover) edited by Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn (PC COPY)

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AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
PUBLICATION DATE October 2024
COVER ART Ilan Sheady
INTRODUCTION Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
PAGES 272
ISBN 978-1-80394-504-0

EDITION
Jacketed Hardcover anthology limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the contributors.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From an old regional theatre on the English coast to a Hollywood sound stage, an odd audition in London, by way of a sad & lonely hotel that attracts a series of strange residents. & much else too. Here are reflections on the nature of truth, how fiction & childish verse can impact reality, & the dangers inherent in retreating from that reality. Photographs & hauntings. Loss & longing. Just how lucky is it being lucky. Strange revenges & even stranger curses.

These nineteen tales of skewed everyday existence, divorced from the outwardly mundane world, demonstrate that all is not quite how it at first appears. These small, uneasy dramas play out in the shadows, in the twilight, hiding from the rational world.

These stories embrace the Shadows.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
• Totu Stephen Volk
• If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion? Ray Bradbury
• Damaged but Adorable Rosanne Rabinowitz
• As Far as Sacred Goes Nancy Kilpatrick
• Stigma Paul Kane
• The Charmed Robert Bagnall
• Never to be Told Colleen Anderson & Tom Johnstone
• Ever So Quietly, Ever So Softly Gary McMahon
• I Is for Infestation Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Fire Ghost Gail-Nina Anderson
• Begbrook Tim Jeffreys
• Echoes, Dying Marion Pitman
• Commitment to Truth Bret McCormick
• The Pit KC Grifant
• The Long Drop Upwards Garry Kilworth
• Decembers Children John Linwood Grant
• The Rosehill Truth Doctor Wendy Purcell
• He Dances Alone Joanne Anderton
• South Riding Reggie Oliver