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I’ve always been a fan of good ol’ Rue M
orgue – the magazine, that is, not the French street made famous by Poe’s pesky orang-utan. It’s a real shame that we Limeys have to search high and low to find it, but it’s always worth the hunt. Anyway, I’m absolutely delighted to report that a review of TAGD has appeared in my favourite horror mag.
Here are a few quotes from Justine Warwick’s piece:
‘By blending a supernatural occult storyline with a contemporary detective yarn [Hussey] manages to use familiar genre tropes in an unfamiliar way.’
‘While the novel never becomes a bloodbath, its understated gruesomeness is one of its strengths, along with the best prolonged death-by-birds scene outside of Alfred Hitchcock.’
‘Through A Glass, Darkly marks the arrival of a strong new voice in crime and horror.’
The review is pretty complimentary throughout, with the caveat that perhaps I try to fit in too many ‘diverse instances of the supernatural.’
Also in the issue: an entertaining rundown of the 50 essential Gore Films (I’ve not seen all of those listed but Cannibal Holocaust and Ichi the Killer freaked with my fragile little mind. Didn’t see Society there – maybe a bit tame for the compiler’s tastes), a retrospective on Famous Monsters of Filmland and a beautiful full-colour print that brings together the most iconic figures from 20 years of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman – possibly my favourite comics series ever!
October 22nd, 2008
Bill is a happy horror bunny (horror bunnies… hmm, not a bad idea. Well, James Herbert has his rats, Shaun Hutson has his slugs, why can’t Bill Hussey have his bunnies?). Anyway, my hippety-hoppety happiness comes from the fact that the good folks at Bloody Books have accepted my second horror novel for publication! And so I thought I’d better follow the example set by Diabolical Joe D’Lacey and give you guys a taster of what’s to come…
‘The Absence’ will be published on 2nd April 2009. Here’s what BB say about it on the official website:
‘Bill’s first novel Through a Glass Darkly received very strong reader group support this year. His second novel continues his fascination with ancient myths and religions. Once again, his superb storytelling takes the reader on a terrifying journey into the mythic past, as a present-day family finds itself the subject of an unrelenting evil going back centuries. Something is moving in the attic. It looks and sounds like a little girl, but its eyes are old and its voice runs like water.’
Part of this blurb is taken from a longer piece I put together for the proposed back cover. Here’s an exclusive sneak peek:
‘It was a tragic accident. That is what his family tell Joe Nightingale, but the boy is tormented by visions of his mother’s death.
Now, seven months after the fatal car crash, the Nightingales receive some unexpected news. They have inherited a house from a distant relative – the reclusive Muriel Sutton. Desperate to reforge old bonds, the family decide to spend the summer at Daecher’s Mill. Here they hope to escape the shadows of the past.
But dark mysteries await them. Who are the guests that have been brought here over the years? Why did the late Muriel Sutton murder her strange little sister, Alice? And what is the connection between Joe Nightingale and this lonely Fenland millhouse?
Something is moving in the attic. It looks and sounds like a little girl, but its eyes are old and its voice runs like water.
It is a weaver of shadows.
A creature of Absence…’
Psychological terror and mythic horror are about to meet head on… in the Shadow House.
‘The Absence’ is already available for preorder from Amazon and Waterstones.
October 20th, 2008
This is my first publishing news post since moving my blog from MySpace to Horror Reanimated. I trust there will be many more. If you’ve found your way this far, chances are you’re a horror enthusiast. Maybe you’re just curious. Either way, all of us here at Horror Reanimated are pleased to meet you.
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Joseph D’Lacey and I’ve been hammering at the keyboard for years. Bloody Books read several of my novels before encouraging me to finish my darkest work to date; a manuscript that became the book MEAT and my first published work of full length fiction.
Tonight, I’d like to reveal a glimpse of my forthcoming novel The Garbage Man.Like MEAT it has an eco-horror theme. In this case, what we do with our waste. I got to thinking about the things we throw away. It occurred to me that our attitudes to our secrets are similar to our attitudes to trash. We want to bury it all. We want to forget about it. As we are discovering, this isn’t going to work forever. In the UK we’re running out of space for our garbage. Is this what happens to us as individuals when we don’t face up to the past?
The Garbage Man is set today, in a typical town right here in the British midlands – a place called Shreve. Shreve has a landfill site within its boundaries, as most towns do. However, this particular dumping ground happens to be one of the largest in the country. Near the landfill is the Meadowlands housing estate and it’s here the story begins.
Many of Meadowlands’ inhabitants have pasts they’d rather keep secret: unfaithfulness, abortions, paedophilia, suicide attempts to name a few. Meanwhile, the pollution from the landfill is causing illness and birth defects in the community. The land can’t handle any more waste. One evening a fearsome electrical storm strikes the landfill and that night new life rises from the trash.
The Garbage Man is coming…
…on 2nd April ’09!
October 15th, 2008
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