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British
Invasion
edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore
They've
invaded before, sending their best and brightest to transform
popular music for all time. This time, they're leaving the music
behind and focusing on words. The British Invasion has begun
again, in a collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories of
horror and the dark fantastic.
From
the birthplace of horror fiction, the land where writers first
dreamed up the icons that shaped the field we know today --
Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula, the vile Mr. Hyde and
more. You think you know desperation? Discover a literary tradition
born from centuries of violence, pain, and suffering, distilled
through the veneer of civility, and twisted by the reign of
tyrants and kings.
You think
you know fear?
From creeping
dread to hideous humor, from quiet terror to brutal horror,
from mad speculation to unspeakable truth, the twenty-one tales
here represent the best that the U.K. has to offer. The rising
stars and the masters of British horror have joined together.
The British
Invasion has begun.
Table
of Contents
Introduction by Stephen Volk
"Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers" by Gord Rollo
"Respects" by Ramsey Campbell"
"Farewell to the 21st Century
Girl" by Mark Chadbourn
"At One" by James Lovegrove
"The Nowhere
Man" by Sarah Pinborough
"The Spaces in Our Lives" by Allen
Ashley
"The Crazy Helmets" by Paul Finch
"Slitten Gorge" by
Conrad Williams "Birchiam Pier" by Tony Richards "Beth's Law"
by Joel Lane
"Black Dogs" by Gary Fry
"The Misadventure of Fat
Man and Little Boy, Or, How I Made a Monster" by Philip Nutman
"The Goldfinch" by Nicholas Royle
"Never Go Back" by Steve Lockley
& Paul Lewis
"Mutiny" by Kealan Patrick Burke
"British Horror
Weekend" by Anonymous
"King of the Maggots" by John Travis
"Leaves"
by Peter Crowther
"Puppies For Sale" by Mark Morris
"Yellow
Teeth" by Adam Nevill
"The Vague" by Paul Meloy
Afterword by
Kim Newman
Reviews
"From Gord
Rollo's transcendentally eerie tale of a comatose young boy's
revenge ("Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers") to Mark Morris's
cautionary tale about a pair of unorthodox vampires ("Puppies
for Sale"), the 21 original stories in this anthology establish
the strength of British horror writers. Contributors include
Ramsey Campbell, Sarah Pinborough, Conrad Williams, Peter Crowther,
and other veterans and new authors. A strong collection of contemporary
horror from across the pond..."
-- Library Journal
"The British
may not have invented the modern horror story, as the editors
of this all-original anthology claim, but the 21 stories they've
selected prove that contemporary U.K. writers are infiltrating
American publishing markets with some of the most provocative
horror fiction written today. Refreshingly devoid of genre clichés,
these subtle tales offer ambiguously supernatural horrors from
the dramas and traumas of everyday life. Nicholas Royle, in
The Goldfinch, gives chronic illness an unsettling spin by objectifying
a man's cancer as a relentless shadowy stalker. Mark Morris's
Puppies for Sale presents a nuclear family's gradual implosion
as a consequence of a malignant supernatural influence that
may be a complete figment of the distraught father's mind. In
Conrad Williams's Slitten Gorge, the disconnect between the
unpolluted natural world and the protagonist's industrially
despoiled environment achieves an aura of otherworldly horror.
The book's title notwithstanding, there's nothing peculiarly
British about these stories, but their authors are exceptionally
articulate in the universal language of horror."
-- Publishers Weekly
Additional
Information
Published by Cemetery
Dance
Limited
Edition of 1,000 copies signed by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon,
and James A. Moore
Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed (by all of the contributors)
and lettered copies bound in leather with additional artwork
and a satin ribbon page marker
Published in 2008
ISBN: 978-1-58767-175-3 |
