Archive for the "Horror" Category

The Ninth Black Book of Horror

The Ninth Black Book of Horror Charles Black, has intimated that another Black Book of Horror is on its way and will hopefully see the light at FantasyCon in September. Again he has garnered a bevy of talent and my name peeps through the crowd in wonder The Anatomy Lesson – John Llewellyn Probert The […]

Algernon Blackwood The Dance of Death

The troubling Algernon Blackwood  in the shape of The Dance of Death. Six tales by Blackwood is probably the exact size for appreciation and I’d question a ‘best of’ as I get the impression that Blackwood is a consistently good writer who almost always fails to deliver great. We have to take into account that […]

Reading of SF and Horror

English Books and Tea – Cologne’s English Book Shop Auf dem Rothenberg 9a Cologne, Germany 50667 February 9th 2012 I will read a few tales of horror and future fantastical events at a marvelous oasis of English books. Tea of all sorts provided by the famed Cologne photographer, Christian Potter.

Screaming Dreams

Stephen Upham’s ‘Screaming Dreams’ will be publishing ‘The Screaming Book of Horror’ in September. I have a story ‘The Iron Cross’  humbly hiding amidst this star studded cast One of the Family – Bernard Taylor Glory and Splendour – Alex Miles What Shall We Do About Barker? – Reginald Oliver Cut! – Anna Taborska The […]

Happy New Year

This year as an exiled Scot I avoided the gruesome ceremony conducted on Arthur Seat. Here, wayward witches gather in a  circle around a fire into whose bosom they have earlier placed stones inscribed with their initials.  When the fire dies down anyone whose stone is missing will die within the year. Instead of this […]

Back from the Dead wins BFS Award

I’m delighted to say that Noose & Gibbet’s  Back From The Dead: The Legacy Of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories won ‘Best Anthology’ in the British Fantasy Society’s 2011 British Fantasy Awards. My own story ‘The Waiting Game’ was included amongst a star studded cast so I am chuffed to be part of a […]

School: The Seventh Silence, reviewed by Black Abyss

“Craig Herbertson has created a marvellous fantastical adventure with a deep and dark undercurrent…” One of the nice comments made by Leslie of the Black Abyss, in reviewing School: The Seventh Silence. The full review can be found here: http://www.blackabyss.co.uk/2011/07/school-the-seventh-silence-by-craig-herbertson/ There are a few hard copies still available in a box under my desk. just […]

“Back From The Dead” Mains, nominated for BFS Award

Back From The Dead, edited by Johnny Mains and published by Noose & Gibbet Press, has been nominated for the British Fantasy Society award for Best Anthology. The anthology was a tribute to the legendary Pan Horror Anthologies and as well as some new stories by living Pan authors contained a few of the old […]

BFS Awards

The British Fantasy Awards have come up again this year and I’m somewhat delighted to see that four collections with a tentative link to me are on the long list. The worthies are Back From The Dead: The Legacy Of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories – Johnny Mains – Noose & Gibbet which contains […]

Horror Auction

Johnny Mains has been moved by the recent catastrophes in Japan to hold an auction of rare and elusive material which will be of interest to all horror lovers. Johnny intends to donate money made from this to the British Red Cross to aid the people of Japan. To find out more and join the […]