H.P. Lovecraft wasn’t an author I’d read until I became more involved in the writing of the thing called ‘horror.’ He himself didn’t write very well, but he found a kind of niche, and had, and still has, a cult following. A year or so ago, my writing community had a lot of ding-dongs about… Continue Reading
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H.P. LOVECRAFT AND HIS MOTHER’S TENTACLES
H.P. Lovecraft wasn’t an author I’d read until I became more involved in the writing of the thing called ‘horror.’ He himself didn’t write very well, but he found a kind of niche, and had, and still has, a cult following. A year or so ago, my writing community had a lot of ding-dongs about… Continue Reading
FOR TWO SONGS
For Two Songs, one of the other stories I wrote for the long short story collection Ragman and Other Family Curses, [Egaeus Press 2016], was inspired by the photographs that were taken of dead family members in the Victorian era. Families who’d lost someone, and who could afford it, sometimes liked to have a family… Continue Reading
Bogieman, a long short story won the New Fictions Prize with Gatehouse Press.
Ragman & Other Family Curses presents four previously unpublished long short stories by World Fantasy Award nominated* Rebecca Lloyd, linked by the themes of family, secrecy and domination. Often unsettling, sometimes darkly humorous, always utterly unexpected, hear are tales of tyrannical parents, frightening heirlooms, spectral omens and macabre night vigils. *For Mercy and Other Stories,… Continue Reading
Ragman and Other Family Curses – Egaeus Press 2016
Ragman & Other Family Curses presents four previously unpublished long short stories by World Fantasy Award nominated* Rebecca Lloyd, linked by the themes of family, secrecy and domination. Often unsettling, sometimes darkly humorous, always utterly unexpected, hear are tales of tyrannical parents, frightening heirlooms, spectral omens and macabre night vigils. *For Mercy and Other… Continue Reading
Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 2
What is most immediately noticeable in Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly’s handsome collection of twenty stories designed by Vince Haig with luscious cover art by Tomasz Alen Kopera, is that the quality of the writing is consistently high and the range of stories represented pleasingly wide which means that the reviewer’s task is made… Continue Reading
VOIDS BY TIM JEFFREYS AND MARTIN GREAVES
A Review of VOIDS by Tim Jeffreys and Martin Greaves, published by Omnium Gatherum. Science fiction is not a genre I naturally gravitate towards for fear the text will be heavy with inventive but tedious descriptions of the technical or mechanical, and more than that— be set in that awful place called space. However, having… Continue Reading
OOTHANGBART
Rebecca Lloyd – Oothangbart is coming in 2016 Posted by Admin on Sep 15, 2015 in Latest News | 0 comments Pillar International Publishing is proud to announce that we have signed Rebecca Lloyd’s book ‘Oothangbart‘ for publication in Autumn/Winter 2016. If Roald Dahl, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett and Dr. Seuss had found themselves fused in a freak microwave accident,… Continue Reading
INTERVIEW WITH RISINGSHADOW.
Just recently because my story collection Mercy with Tartarus Press is a nominee for a World Fantasy Award, I had the pleasure of being interviewed in Risingshadow. http://www.risingshadow.net/articles/515-an-interview-with-rebecca-lloyd Articles An interview with Rebecca Lloyd Published on August 3, 2015. Written by Seregil of Rhiminee Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Rebecca Lloyd. Winning the 2008… Continue Reading
