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Snipped up

carl_barker — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:52:02 +0000

Just heard that my flash fiction piece ‘The Perfect Woman’ has been accepted for Chris Teague’s forthcoming anthology sequel Nasty Snips II over at Pendragon Press.

The collection will only be available as an e-anthology, with a virtual launch planned to coincide with next year’s FantasyCon in Brighton.

Double the Horror

carl_barker — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:53:03 +0000

The second of my horror stories out for Halloween, ‘From Chatterton Hill‘, is now available over at Screaming Dreams as part of the bumper seasonal issue of Estronomicon.

It’s free to read and can be downloaded here.

Happy Halloween to all!

End of the line for SW&W

carl_barker — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:41:18 +0000

The more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that the forthcoming link for my piece ‘Unfinished‘ no longer features on the Publications page.

This is due to the sad closure of the Indiana-based magazine, Strange, Weird & Wonderful, and is yet another reminder of how hard the Publishing industry is faring in the continuing recession. I wish DLR and his team every success in their future endeavours and thanks for taking the time to consider my work.

Hopefully the story will get picked up elsewhere in the coming months.

Something fishy

carl_barker — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:19:34 +0000

For those of you looking for some horror this Halloween, my latest offering, ‘Fish Out Of Water‘, is now available as part of the ‘Midnight Movie Creature Feature‘ anthology from May December Publications.

The book is out now on Kindle, priced £6.47 in the UK and can be ordered as a hard copy version on Amazon.com.

And if that’s not enough horror for you, Severed Press’s ‘Zombie Zoology‘ anthology, featuring my story, ‘Why The Wild Things Are‘, is now on special offer at only £2.14 for Kindle. So why not double up and download a copy at the same time for twice the scares.

(Watch this space for yet more horror before the end of the month)

Heads up

carl_barker — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:34:40 +0000

My story, ‘From Chatterton Hill‘, will shortly be featuring in the Halloween issue of Estronomicon over at Screaming Dreams Press.

I’ll post the download links once its online.

Now Available

carl_barker — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:37:01 +0000

The British Fantasy Society’s 40th Anniversary Anthology, ‘Full Fathom Forty‘, is now available to buy and features my story ‘Eater Of Lost Causes‘.

Copies can be purchased from either Amazon or The Book Depository, as well as from the BFS itself. For those interested, I recommend buying directly from the BFS, though I am entirely biased. It’s a bit more expensive but they have better availability and 100% of the money goes to the Society.

The book itself is a mammoth 500 pages and features stories from some of the best authors in the business:-

Graham Masterson, Ramsey Campbell, Mike Barrett, Stephen Gallagher, Nina Allan, Joel Lane, Christopher Fowler, Jasper Kent, Sam Stone, Kim Newman, Conrad Williams, Simon Clark, Suzanne Barbieri, Stephen Laws, John Llewellyn Probert, Murray Ewing, Ian Hunter, Deborah Walker, Jonathan Carroll, Jan Edwards, Martin Owtin, Tina Rath, Robert Shearman, Wilf Kelleher Jones, Cate Gardner, Adrian Chamberlin, Cas Peace, Stan Nicholls, Geoff Nelder, Jim Steel, Matthew Fryer, R B Harkness, Raven Dane, Paul Finch, Mark Lewis, Alison J Littlewood, Steve Lockley, Peter Mark May and Steven Savile.

Full details of links and pricing can be found on the Publications page.

For Terri

carl_barker — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:45:20 +0000

The Fall issue of Dark Gothic Resurrected magazine is out now and includes my story ‘Things Lost In Fire‘.

Copies can be purchased from Lulu in either paperback or ebook format.

Further details can be found on the Publications page.

Storm brewing

carl_barker — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:33:27 +0000

Roar & Thunder have just accepted my story, ‘The Lightning Conductor‘.

More details to follow when I have them.

Gifts bearing Greeks

carl_barker — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:32:35 +0000

Out this month is the ‘Greek Myths Revisited‘ anthology from Wicked East Press, which features my story ‘Fall Of A House In Greece‘.

Copies can currently be purchased from the Pill Hill Press site and will also be available from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble soon.

UPDATE: Now listed on both Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. Price details on the Publication tab.

Fathoming it out

carl_barker — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:27:40 +0000

Full Fathom Forty is now available to pre-order from The British Fantasy Society’s website. The full list of authors included in the book and an accompanying Paypal button can be found here.

Please see the Publications tab for further details.