Archive for the "Hell" Category

The Black Book of Horror

The Black Book of Horror contains eighteen excursions on the night train to Hell. Its driver, Charles Black, has garnered a dreadful bunch of passengers. Dreadful, only in the sense that if you listen to their tales you are going to do a lot of dreading. These authors are the ones you don’t take home […]

The Seventh Black Book of Horror

Just reading the proofs for my story which will be included in The Seventh Black Book of Horror, edited by Charles Black. Not sure exactly when the new Black Book of Horror will be released but this is a tremendously exciting prospect given the high quality and positive critiques of the last volumes. More to […]

The Thinking Man’s Crumpet 3#

there is some eerie quality about Karataš’ work that defies analysis.

Filthy Creations 6#

As if the editor Rog Pile had nothing else to do but astound, this edition of Filthy Creations 6# begins the serialisation of two novels. Sendings by David A Riley and The Death Tableau by, yours truly, Craig Herbertson

Filthy Creations

Filthy Creations 6 edited by Rog Pile is now available. It’s a  superb looking publication and as well as a serialisation of ‘Sendings’  by the renowned D. A Riley includes a serialisation of my novel The Death Tableau. More of these to follow. Charles Black, D. F. Lewis, Stephen Bacon, Robert Mammone, Franklin Marsh, Colin […]

Fourth and Fifth Black Books of Horror

I’m grateful to David A.  Riley for pointing out that the fourth and fifth Black Books of Horror (editor Charles Black) had many honourable mentions in Ellen Datlow’s best horror of the year. Here are the authors mentioned: Herbertson, Craig “Leibniz’s Last Puzzle,” The Fifth Black Book of Horror. McGachey, Daniel M.“’And Still Those Screams […]

Noose and Gibbet Publishing

After the success of ‘Back from the Dead’ Johnny Mains is going from strength to strength. Anyone who has the vaguest inclination towards Horror should check out this excellent website Noose and Gibbet Publishing where you will likely be terrified out of your wits. There should be a son of ‘Back from the Dead’ walking […]

World Horror Conference 2010

World Horror Conference 2010 I’ve just about recovered from this marvelous event, held in the UK for the first time in Brighton where the chips are normally good and there is a pier. My adventures were mainly concerned with two publications John Mains (ed.) – Back From The Dead: The Legacy Of The Pan Book […]

Back from the Dead

Back from the Dead ….Look out for the inimitable Herbertson in this new anthology of Pan Horror authors lovingly put together by Mr Horror, Johnny Mains. ‘Back From The Dead.’ This fanatical editor managed to trace almost every living author from the incredible series, which included within its 30 anthologies, such giants as Lord Dunsany, […]

Dark Horizons

Dark Horizons 55 Artwork by Arthur Wang. Dark Horizons 55 has been released with fiction from Richard Ford, Naoko Awa (tr. Toshiya Kamei), Alex Davis, Mike Phillips, Alison J. Littlewood, Ian Hunter, Mike Chinn, Ralph Robert Moore, Astrid Klemz, Shaun Jeffrey, Douglas Thompson Jim Steel; poetry from Michael Fantina, Wade German and Victor D. Infante. […]