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TOP INTERNATIONAL HORROR

Edited by John B. Ford & Paul Kane

Cover photograph by Paul Kane. CLOUD 019

£8.00/$13.00

Authors: Kevin J. Anderson, Michael T. Huyck Jr., Darren Franz, Mary Romano, Alexis Child, Bruce Golden, John Ludlow, Sherid Adam Signs, Thomas Stone, Phil Locascio, Karole M. Svitak, Thomas Wagner, Melissa Patterson, Christopher Fulbright, Eddie M. Angerhuber.

Featuring all the winning stories from the Top International Horror Contest 2003, with stories voted into the book by genuine authors and readers. This is one story collection that you dare not miss!

A SMALL COLLECTION OF MEDIOCRE STORIES

by Simon Logan.

Illustrated by Mitch Phillips. CLOUD 008

£8.00/$12.00

Stories: They Keep Her in the Attic, The Old Ones Have Ways, Like Clockwork, Two.Point.Four, The Pulsating Wall, The Siamese Bitch Hole, The Traffic Island of Dr. Moreau.

The fiction of Simon Logan is bizarre in the extreme, almost seeming to purposely defy categorization. His imagination conjures haunting scenes of twisted nightmare and just about anything seems possible. Logan's fiction is modern and disturbing.

STRANGE TALES

by Mark West

Cover photograph by Mark West. CLOUD 015

£7.99/$12.99

Stories: Infantophobia, Having A Bad Day, Empty Souls Drowning, Dead Skin, Speckles, Up For Anything, Together Forever, The Darkest Hour, The City In The Rain, Dreaming Of A Black Christmas, Beach.

Mark West's compelling stories have a well-crafted, slowly increasing sense of tension and dread, sometimes with a hint of creepy paranoia reminiscent of Philip K. Dick mixed in, the endings always abrupt and chilling, like an unexpected splash in the face with ice water.

TOUCHING THE FLAME

by Paul Kane

Cover photograph by Paul Kane. CLOUD 01

£8.99/$13.99

Stories: The Torturer, Astral, The Face of Death, Shadow Writer, Prey, Star-Pool, Visiting Hours, Facades, At The Heart of the Maze, The Bones Brothers, Nightlife, The Hypnotist’s Gaze, Grandpa’s Chair, The Disease, Blackout, St. August’s Flame, The Persistence of Dali, Eye of the Beholder.

Paul Kane's world is a world of horror and wonder. A world of monstrous things beautifully carved in words by one hell of a talented and visionary writer.

NIGHTMARES FROM INFINITY

by Steve Lines.

Illustrated by Steve Lines. CLOUD 011

£8.00/$12.00

Thrill to tales of the incredible and the impossible, the unbelievable and the uncanny, the dead and the deathless, the unloved and the unwanted, the mundane and the miraculous. Collected here are the lyrics from the albums "Nor Of This Earth"", "Nightmares In The Sky", "Sleep No More", "Strange Aeons", "The Darkest Hour", "The King In Yellow" and many more. Deranged musician Steve Lines has created his own warped world of musical mayhem.

RULE DEMENTIA!

by Quentin S. Crisp

Cover art by Steve Lines. CLOUD 022

£14.00/$19.99

Stories: Jellyfish Joe, The Haunted Bicycle, Zugzwang, The Tao of Petite Beige, The Waiting, Unimaginable Joys

Rule Dementia! is the third collection of stories from Quentin S. Crisp, and as such cements the fact that he is a major new talent on the UK small press scene. In this book you will find the bizarre and surreal mixed to such perfection with an older classic influence to bring about unique style and content. Read these stories carefully and be sure to sink fully within them, for they're as deep as the ocean and give clues to the identity and doctrine of the author more accurately than any fingerprint or brain probe.

Sometimes writing like a modern Kafka or Schulz, it's hard to pin down the fiction of this author and name any certain influence, but you can be sure the end result is something very special.

THE EVIL ENTWINES (Revised edition)

by John B. Ford & Guests

Cover art by Lorretta Mansell. CLOUD 030

£15.00/$22.00

Stories: Sermon w/ F. Paul Wilson, Dead Things w/ Paul Bradshaw, Mrs Drasic's farewell party w/ Eddie Angerhuber, The Nightmare Plot w/ Gary Greenwood, The Winged Menace w/ D. F. Lewis, Cemetery Snake w/ Tim Lebbon, The maker of Nightmares w/ Steve Lines, Croxton's return w/ Derek M. Fox, The Shadow Man w/ L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims, The Mechanical Museum w/ Thomas Ligotti, Eyes End w/ Ramsey Campbell, The Fevered Brain w/ Joseph S. Pulver Sr., The Toll w/ Paul Kane, The Moulder of Blackest Nightmare w/ Simon Clark, The Corpse Awakens w/ Steven Lee Climer, The Resurrection of Conrad w/Jeffrey Thomas, The cairn w/ Paul Finch, macabre Delights w/ Michael Pendragon, Degrees of Separation w/ Brian Stableford, The Man With Haunted Eyes w/ David Price and Sailing Into Night - a round robin featuring Joseph S. Pulver Sr., John B. Ford, Michael Cisco, Jeffrey Thomas, Quentin S. Crisp, Jeff VanderMeer, Mark McLaughlin, Eddie M. Angerhuber, Thomas Ligotti, Scot Peacock, Ann K. Schwader, Brian Stableford, Thomas Wiloch, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Samuels and Matt Cardin.

After the considerable success of John B. Ford's collaborative book THE EVIL ENTWINES we at Rainfall Books realised the high demand for an extended version of that same tome, this time featuring all the collaborative stories John has ever done.

Here you'll find a start-studded line up of authors mingled with some of the fastest rising new talent. These are authors John admires and found it a great honour to work with. If you are a fan of such writers as Thomas Ligotti, F. Paul Wilson, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Thomas, Brian Stableford, Tim Lebbon, D. F. Lewis, Paul Kane, Steve Lines, Paul Finch, L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims etc, this book is a must buy for you.

TELL ME WHEN IT'S OVER

Notes From the Paisley Underground

Edited by Clive Jones

Cover art by Steve Lines. CLOUD 025

£12.00/$19.99

Postage: UK £2.00 Europe £4.00 USA £5.50

The 1980s saw an explosive manifestation of psychedelic music from the West Coast of the USA known as the PAISLEY UNDERGROUND. This 280 page book compiles archive interviews from the most important magazines of the era. It also features new introductions to the bands by the top writers in the field.

Bands featured include: Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Long Ryders, Green On Red, Three O’Clock, True West, 28th Day, Wednesday Week, Mazzy Star, Clay Allison and Opal.

Authors featured in Tell Me When It’s Over include: Pat Thomas,

Nigel Cross, Jud Cost, Fred Mills, Jon Storey and Paul Ricketts.

TERROR TALES #3

John B. Ford & Paul Kane

Cover art by Steve Lines. CLOUD 031

£15.00/$22.00

Stories: The Causeway by Stephen Laws; I'm Awlays here by Richard Christian Matheson; Blast From the Past by Simon Clark; A Short Guide to the City by Peter Straub; Whispers by Marie O'Regan; Tripod by Jeffrey Thomas; Where It Roots, How It Fruits by Chaz Brenchley; The dark Exit by Joel Lane; Feels Like Stephen King by Stephen Deighan; 0.5 MG by William Conrad; The Happt Misanthrpist by John Travis; What Elroy Did in His School Holidays by Jonathan Oliver; The Summer House by Vicki yates; A Slave of Melancholy by Mark Samuels; Bus Driver by Kevin Anderson; Dead to the World by Allen Ashley.

The latest edition of the highly acclaimed TERROR TALES with a stunning line up of writers brought to you by those two creatures of the night Fiendish Ford and Kreepy Kane.

MIRROR MERE

by Marie O'Regan.

Illustrated by David A. Magitis. CLOUD 034

£8.99/$14.00

Stories: Whispers, Suicide Bridge, Bleed For Me, Alsiso, Sea View, 4.44, Cut To The Chase, Do You Remember, No Way Up, Samedi's Child, Can You See Me?, Touch, Spiritus Sanctus, Stay, Mirror Mere, I'll Call You, Tabith's Angel.

The debut collection from one of today's rising stars of horror, Mirror Mere will unnerve and disturb in equal measures. Take Marie O'Regan's hand as she shows you a world you've never seen before, one which mirrors our own but is just that bit different, that bit more terrifying. In sixteen short stories and the never before seen novella from which this book takes its title, she will expose you to some of these frights. Open the pages and look into the mirror . . . if you dare.

SIGNS OF LIFE

by Paul Kane

Illustrated by Ian Simmons. CLOUD 035

£6.99/$11.00

Stories: Signs of Life, The Bite, Who's Been . . .

with an introduction by Stephen Gallagher

Inside the pages of this very special book you will find two novellas and one short story from the imagination of Paul Kane, prize-winning author of Aline (In The Dark), Touching The Flame and Funny Bones. All are guaranteed to scare, to excite, to make you think twice about the world you're living in. And just who - or what - you're sharing it with.

LOST WORLDS OF SPACE & TIME vol 2

Edited by Steve Lines.

Illustrated by Steve Lines. CLOUD 028

Price £12.00/$20.00

Stories:

XICCARPH

The Lord of Xiccarph by Ron Shiflet

The Maze of Maal-Dweb by Steve Lines

The Reprisals of Maal Dweb by Henry J. Vester III

The Death of Maal Dweb by C. J. Henderson

The Legacy of Maal Dweb by Ron Shiflet

EARTH

The Gordian Knot by Robert M. Price

Orpheus At Sea by Mark Francis

The Cave Wizard by Richard L. Tierney

The Letter by Warlock G Vance

The Night That Wins by Joel Lane

AIHAI

Cavern of the Golden Fleece by Edward P. Berglund

YIHH

The Sarcophagus of Yiolh-Ngwehh by Simon Whitechapel

XULTHOOM

The Xulthoom Dispatches by Scott Urban

ZOTHIQUE

The Vainglorious Simulacrum of Mungha Sorcyllamia by Mark McLaughlin

The Fane of Mordiggian by Ann K. Schwader

At the Yielding of Twilight by Ann K. Schwader

Maraeva by Ran Cartwright

Plagues by Franklyn Searight

The Storming of Vrookhal by Laurence J. Cornford

Cincor During Necromantic Rule by Ron Shiflet

Deepness by Phillip Ellis

Gylas’ Hymn To Mordiggian: A Fragment

The Villanelle Of The Last Days by Phillip Ellis

The Black Massif by Stanley Sargent

The long awaited second volume of LOST WORLDS OF SPACE & TIME, the tribute collection to the works and worlds of Clark Ashton Smith. Featuring the cream of today's fantasy authors exploring the wondrous realms of Smith's exotic imagination.

In these two volumes (really a single volume split into two for ease of publication) we pay tribute to the works of Clark Ashton Smith as today’s current practitioners of the ‘weird tale’ explore his incredible and macabre realms and create a stunning collection of tales inspired and influenced by the master.

By the time you turn the last page of this collection we will have taken you from Earth’s infancy and The One Continent down winding corridors of space and time to Atlantis, Hyperborea, Averoigne, Xiccarph, Earth, Aihai, Yihh, Xulthoom and finally to the last dying continent of Zothique. And that’s a journey of the mind worth taking I’m sure you’ll agree!

So come on, plunge deep into a universe of incredible worlds and fantastic creatures and experience once again the gorgeous, luxuriant feverishly distorted visions of Smith’s macabre creations.

THE PERCIVAL TYLER FILES

by Clinton S. Green.

Cover by Steve Lines. CLOUD 032

Price: £10.00/$20.00

Stories: The Prophecy In The Wood, The Curse of the Hindo, The Lost.

Percival Tyler is a young man in awe of his redoubtable father, the founder of the American Society for Reason and enemy of occultists everywhere. Early twentieth century society in New England, USA is rife with witches, spiritualists, and age-old legends from the backwoods. Percival assists his father on several cases, including an investigation of a series of horrific grave desecrations supposedly perpetrated by ghouls!

Weak-minded mortals cling to their superstitions, but the dedicated group of educated gentlemen fight to expose these so-called supernatural events. Their investigations show these occult oddities to be perfectly explainable in the end or do they?

The Percival Tyler Files is the story of supernatural beliefand the dogma of logic. It is the study of a son's attempts to live up to the impossible expectations of his father and of his strange journey towards an unspeakable destiny.

IN FEAR & DREAD

by Derek M. Fox.

Cover by Steve Lines. CLOUD 036

Price: £12.00/$25.00

Stories: Comeback, The Swing, Packy's Room, Sira, Call Me Daughter, Family Ties, Certificate X, Billy One-Eye, Heaven Sent?, A Walk In The Field, Schoolyard, Dwelling Place, An Exercise In White, Preacher Empty Chairs, Ripples, Creepers, Downfall, Heat, Windows Weeds, Stopping Clocks.

Derek M. Fox, a British author/creative writing tutor, has had countless stories published in the small press world. He has built a reputation for delivering chilling and atmospheric tales that linger on in the mind even after the last word has been read. Along with the novels Recluse and Demon there have been other collections of stories from Fox, but we at Rainfall Books are delighted to unleash upon the world his most complete and powerful collection yet..

Utmost care is recommended now as you are about to enter a world of Fear & Dread!