WITHIN THE SEA OF THE DEAD by John B. Ford
November 1996
Stories: Within The Sea of The Dead, To Dwell On Tainted Ground, Destiny.
The first publication from BJM PRESS featured “two stories written as tribute in the style of William Hope Hodgson” by John B. Ford.
This booklet was re-printed in March 1988 with illustration by Steve Lines.
MACABRE DELIGHTS AND TWISTED TALES by John B. Ford
April 1977
Stories: The Illusion of Life, In The House of Chained Souls, The Sea of Strangeness, The Things in the Weed, Love Hearts, Life on Ice, The Midnight Caller, The Lucky Man From Atlantis, Dead Man’s Handle, Strange One Off The Rails, The Darkest of All Healings, The Curse, The Cemetery of The Ocean, The Rose of Lamia, The Enemy Within.
Artwork: Chris Webb, Colin Langeveld, Gerald Gaubert, Desmond Knight, John B. Ford.
This was originally slated to be published by Unreal Press and a mock up was made, but that never materialised so BJM put it out instead.
IN THE GALLERY OF DEATH & OTHER TALES by John B. Ford
July 1997
Stories: In The Gallery of Death, Grondack, The Wood of Wonder, The Cemetery of the Ocean, The Menace of Manifold Valley, The Men Who Glowed.
Artwork: Gerald Gaubert.
TERROR TALES #1 edited by John B. Ford
November 1997
Authors: William Hope Hodgson, John Travis, Robert Gill, Charles Foley, Paul Bradshaw, W. J. Johnson, Michael Pendragon, D. F. Lewis, Derek M. Fox, Stuart Moses, Peter Smith.
Artwork: Gerald Gaubert, Colin Langeveld
The first issue of the legendary Terror Tales, now a much sought after collector’s item.
TERROR TALES #2 edited by John B. Ford
April 1998
Authors: Paul Bradshaw, Moritz Jokai, E. Thurlow, Simon Bestwick, David Price, C. E. Jeffrey, Michael Pendragon, Derek M. Fox, John B. Ford, Mark Gale, Richard Fadden, Martyn Blake, Paul Finch, Rob Markland.
Artists: Gerald Gaubert, Colin Langeveld, Steve Lines, Iain Maynard.
GHOULS & GORE & TWISTED TERRORS by John B. Ford
May 1998
Stories: Dr Calargi’s Black Box, A Visit to the Gooja Bird, Tongue Tied, The Island of the Undead, The Illusion of Death, Transfiguration, Soul Light, The Men Who Glowed, The Man Who Drank Death, The Superintendent of Death, The Keeper of Souls, To Dwell On Tainted Ground, In The Presence of Hob Hirst, In The House of Chained Souls.
Artwork: Illustrated by Steve Lines.
THE DERELICT OF DEATH by Simon Clark & John B. Ford
June 1998
Story: The Derelict of Death
Artist: Illustrated by Steve Lines.
Best selling author Simon Clark and small press legend John B. Ford team up to write a stunning tribute to William Hope Hodgson’s ‘Sargasso Sea’ stories. A collector’s item!
TERROR TALES #3 edited by John B. Ford
November 1998
Authors: Joe Rattigan, J. Rogerson, John Travis, Martyn Blake, Paul Bradshaw, Paul Kane, Michael Pendragon, R. J. Krijnen-Kemp, Robert Bee, Emma Hooper, Derek M. Fox, Simon Bestwick, Rob Rowntree, A. J. Pothcary, Michael Kennedy, Lisa Negus & Pat Greasby, Richard Bennett & John B, Ford, John Davis, John Saxton, David Toast, Jason Conway, Peter Wykes.
Artists: Colin Langeveld, Mark Hetherington, Steve Lines, Desmond Knight, Iain Maynard.
TERROR TALES #4 edited by John B. Ford
December 1998
Authors: Marie Farrimond, Peter Smith, L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Simms, David Price, Sue Phillips, Paul Finch, Muriel Smith, Anna Franklin, Paul Bradshaw, Joe Rattigan, Andrew Richardson, Simon Bestwick, Michael Pendragon, David Cowdall, Peter Wykes.
Artists: Steve Lines, Iain Maynard, Mark Hetherington, Desmond Knight, Colin Langeveld.
NIGHTSCAPES by Michael Pendragon
August 1999
Stories: The Curiosity Piece, The Hexing, A Pilgrim Shadow, The Finger Of Death, Out Of The Night Closet, Fool For Love, Where The Vampires Dwell, The Man Who Walked Through Walls, Old Hubbard’s Barn, The Soul Jackers.
Artists: Gerald Gaubert, Jeffrey Thomas, Steve Lines, L. Dickison, Colin Langeveld, Todd H. C. Fischer, Desmond Knight.
DREAMS OF A DISEASED MIND by Steve Lines
June 2000
Poems: The Gathering, The Comptonbury Horror, The Ghoul, The Feaster in the Tomb, Monolith, The Severnford Seals, The Black Flame, The Mad Poet, Beyond, Strange Aeons, The Tindlosi Hounds, The Black Pharaoh, Nctosa & Nctolhu, Down To A Sunless Sea, The Black Stone, Pickman’s Painting, Innsmouth Jewellery, The Delirium of Nish, The Flower Woman, Dreamhound, The Nightmares of Nebb, Shul’nar Thak, The Silent Sea, R’lyeh Rising, When They Return.
Artist: Illustrated by Steve Lines with 31 full page illustrations
THE RESERVOIR OF DREAMS by Paul Bradshaw
June 2000
Stories: The Gift, Riley’s Bar, The Tattoo, Exploding Heads, The Bond Between Beauty & Evil, Within the Walls of Darkness, The Dreamer of No Dreams, Ran’s Embrace, The Director of Haunted Inns, The reservoir of Dreams.
Artists: Iain Maynard, Gerald Gaubert, Sean Russell Friend, Colin Langeveld, Eric York, Steve Lines, Desmond Knight.
ALONE IN THE DARK by Paul Kane
September 2000
Stories: Dangerous World, Alone, Biorhythms, In The House of Magritte, Net Curtains, The Last Temptation of Alice Crump, The Weeping Woman, Pay the Piper, The Cyclops, Sabbat, Master of the White Worms, Remembrance, Eye of the Beholder.
Artists: Illustrated by Paul Kane.
BY THE GAS FLAME FLICKERING by Paul Finch
January 2001
Stories: Boggart Lane, The Impalements, The Lark, Shadows In The rafters.
Artists: Illustrated by Steve Lines
THE EVIL EYE by David Price
March 2001
Stories: The Evil Eye, Living Beyond the Flesh, The Cliché Thief, Brainwave, In The Corner of Your Eye, The Tower of Wisdom, Deathbed Confessor, To The Daemon – We Give Breath, Somewhere In Between, The Transportee, Amphytrion
THE NIGHTMARE EXHIBITION by Quentin S Crisp
March 2001
Artists: Gerald Gaubert, Desmond Knight.
Stories: Interview With the Necrophile, The Psychopomps, The Legacy, Dating the Android, Decay, Life Spans, The Reversible Man, The Recluse. The Nightmare Exhibition.
Artists: Ken Withrow.
This met with a favourable response and a second collection was planned. meanwhile Unreal Press were planning a collection of John's work and got as far as a mock up copy of the book - but that is as far as they got. "Macabre Delights & Twisted Tales" never appeared under the Unreal Press banner, so John decided to put it out on BJM. It was published in April 1997. Unlike the preceding volume this one also contained impressive artwork, most notably the Beardsly-esque work of Gerald Gaubert. "Macabre Delights" was swiftly followed by yet another collection from this prolific master of the macabre and the slim, but nicely formed "In The Gallery of Death & Other Tales" lurched into an unsuspecting world impressively illustrated by Gaubert.