Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions
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Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions
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Author : Michael Marshall Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions written by Michael Marshall Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Taken from The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22, edited by Stephen Jones. As Smith recalls: "This story came about in the simplest way, the way I always enjoy most - something happening in real life that makes you think 'What if?' "Our household gets a lot of its food via an online delivery service, and one day when I was unpacking what had just been dropped at our house I gradually realised there was something...not quite right about the contents of the bags. "There's two things that are strange about that experience. The first is that - given that every household is likely to buy at least some things in common - you don't realise straight away that you've been given the wrong shopping. You don't immediately think 'This is wrong', more like . . . 'This is weird'. The second is how personal it is, gaining accidental access to this very tangible evocation of some other family's life. You can't help but wonder about the people the food was really destined for. "In real life, I just called up the delivery guy and got it sorted out: but in fiction, you might tackle things slightly differently . . ."
Mammoth Books Presents The Darlington Substitution Scandal
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Author : David Stuart Davies
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-05-17
Mammoth Books Presents The Darlington Substitution Scandal written by David Stuart Davies and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-17 with Fiction categories.
Lord Hector Darlington is a wealthy art collector who owns one of the finest private galleries in Europe. His latest purchase is Louis de Granville's 'Adoration of the Magi'. After cancelling a regular trip and returning to view it, Darlington realises the piece is missing. A very unwelcoming Darlington family greet Holmes and Watson at the house, whereupon they discover that it is not only the 'Adoration of the Magi' painting his Lordship should be concerned about.
Mammoth Books Presents Telling
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Author : Steve Rasnic Tem
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Telling written by Steve Rasnic Tem and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
The author reveals the following story "...began with a dreadful image at the end of a dream. I couldn't remember the other details of that dream, but I was determined to find out where that image might have come from."
Mammoth Books Presents Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
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Author : Christopher Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside written by Christopher Fowler and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
'Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside' came about firstly because I was commissioned to write a story for the World Horror Convention souvenir book and, as the event was to take place in Brighton, it seemed logical to set a tale on the South coast of England. "I had written a fantasy novel, Calabash, some years earlier, hinting at the dark madness of such seaside towns, which are the antithesis of their Mediterranean counterparts. I thought of the depressing Morrissey song "Every Day is Like Sunday", which captures the awfulness of English resorts. "Coincidentally, Kim Newman and I were discussing the inherent creepiness of pantomime dames, and I decided it was time to give vent to my horror of these coastal pleasure domes. I wish I'd thought to include screaming gangs of hen-nighters as well. And I thought it was a nice touch to have everyone in the story telling the hero to 'fuck off' until he finally does.
Mammoth Books Presents We All Fall Down
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Author : Kirstyn McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents We All Fall Down written by Kirstyn McDermott and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
I carried the bones of this story around for quite a few years before I finally stumbled upon its beating heart," explains the author. "In my head was the image of a doll house, huge and not quite right, and a woman searching desperately for something concealed inside. But I could never work a story around it that didn't seem twee. Doll houses, you know? "But then Emma and Holly appeared - trapped within their own fractured, futile relationship - and everything just, well, fell together. Beautifully. Awfully. And now I have a doll house story. Of a kind.
Mammoth Books Presents Featherweight
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Author : Robert Shearman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Featherweight written by Robert Shearman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
I don't like writing at home much," admits Shearman. "Home is a place for sleeping and eating and watching afternoon game shows on TV. There are too many distractions. So, years ago, I decided I'd only write first drafts in art galleries. "And the best of them all is the National Gallery, in London, a pigeon's throw from Nelson's Column. I can walk around there with my notebook, thinking up stories - and if I get bored, there are lots of expensive pictures to look at. Perfect. "A lot of those paintings, however, have angels in them. They're all over the place, wings raised, halos gleaming - perching on clouds, blowing trumpets, hovering around the Virgin Mary as if they're her strange naked childlike bodyguards. And I began to notice. That, whenever the writing is going well, the angels seemed happy, and would smile at me. And whenever the words weren't coming out right, when I felt sluggish, when I thought I'd rather take off and get myself a beer, they'd start to glare. "I wrote this story in the National Gallery. Accompanied by a lot of glaring angels. Enjoy.
Mammoth Books Presents With The Angels
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Author : Ramsey Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents With The Angels written by Ramsey Campbell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Campbell reveals, "My fellow clansman Paul Campbell will remember the birth of this tale. At the Dead Dog party after the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton, someone was throwing a delighted toddler into the air. I was ambushed by an idea and had to apologise to Paul for rushing away to my room to scribble notes. The result is here."
Mammoth Books Presents Christmas With The Dead
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Author : Joe R. Lansdale
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Christmas With The Dead written by Joe R. Lansdale and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
I wrote 'Christmas with the Dead' simply because I wanted to write a holiday horror story," Lansdale admits. "This was the result.
Mammoth Books Presents Monsters In Our Midst
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Author : Gary Kilworth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Monsters In Our Midst written by Gary Kilworth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Substitutions - Michael Marshall Smith Michael Marshall Smith recalls: "This story came about in the simplest way, the way I always enjoy most - something happening in real life that makes you think 'What if?' "Our household gets a lot of its food via an online delivery service, and one day when I was unpacking what had just been dropped at our house I gradually realised there was something...not quite right about the contents of the bags. "There's two things that are strange about that experience. The first is that - given that every household is likely to buy at least some things in common - you don't realise straight away that you've been given the wrong shopping. You don't immediately think 'This is wrong', more like . . . 'This is weird'. The second is how personal it is, gaining accidental access to this very tangible evocation of some other family's life. You can't help but wonder about the people the food was really destined for. "In real life, I just called up the delivery guy and got it sorted out: but in fiction, you might tackle things slightly differently . . ." Out Back - Garry Kilworth "'Out Back' was written for a group of friends," Kilworth recalls, "who appear as characters in the story under their initials, as I do myself. Those who know me well will recognise the protagonists. "Iken is a real village on the edge of the marshes behind Snape Maltings in Suffolk. Two years ago I wandered along the periphery of the reed beds which stretch down towards the coast as a green and golden sea, the waves created by the winds that blow across the flatlands. Looking at the church that sits on a knoll above the marshes I thought, 'This is a perfect setting for a horror story.' And so . . ." City of the Dog - John Langan "This story arose from my desire to see what I could do with the figure of the ghoul," reveals Langan, "and as I've tried to indicate within the narrative, I drew inspiration both from H.P. Lovecraft ('Pickman's Model') and Caitlín R. Kiernan (Daughter of Hounds). "The miserable years in New York State's capital, though, were mine alone."
Mammoth Books Presents Mami Wata
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Author : Simon Kurt Unsworth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Mammoth Books Presents Mami Wata written by Simon Kurt Unsworth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Fiction categories.
When I was first asked to contribute to Exotic Gothic 3 (which was to feature Gothic-influenced stories in non-Gothic environments), I agreed without really thinking about it," Unsworth explains, "and then spent a long time struggling, trying to work out how, precisely, I was going to manage it or quite how to make a start. "I knew what I wanted to do, sort of, but not exactly how to do it, so one day alarmingly close to the deadline I did a fun thing: I freewheeled through Google. Using a small document about Zambian myths and cultures I found online (I set the story in Zambia for no reason other than an old family friend lives there and it seemed exotic in Gothic terms), I used one Zambian word from it as a search term and read what came up, took one intriguing Zambian term from the search results and searched for that, etc, and disappeared into Google's merry depths. "I ended up with an academic paper about a particular myth, a travel blog about a sort of beer made from corn and a weird little 'my God's better than your God' blog by a kid in Africa, and somewhere in the middle of that, the story appeared.