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	Pre-order The Swan River Press' debut hardback — The Old Knowledge and Other Strange Tales. This first collection of tales by Rosalie Parker contains eight stories that explore the uncanny in the modern world. As Glen Cavaliero observes in his introduction, "like all good stories of the preternatural, these in The Old Knowledge have a subversive effect." In them, "the world of logical, predictable reality is seen to be at risk from rejected modes of knowledge which can thwart the materialist and victimise those innocents who stumble into another order of reality." Do not expect blood-and-guts: these stories hold a different kind of terror. "Their unostentatious magic is of an insidious kind; and like the protagonist of the title story, is liable to exert itself in disconcerting ways." More...
	New Articles in Rue Morgue #103: Review of Adam Nevill's Apartment 16 and "Genre scholar Everett Franklin Bleiler Remembered". "Apartment 16 is two tales of one city: contemporary London. Over alternating chapters, the novel’s two protagonists explore their contrasting neighbourhoods and lifestyles. Apryl, a young American, visits London to sell her wealthy great aunt’s decaying Barrington House apartment in posh Knightsbridge. Meanwhile, struggling artist Seth lives in a flat above a pub in the squalorous East End. He is plagued by isolation, poverty and a hooded street urchin who lures him ever closer to the secret evil hidden within Barrington House, where he is the night watchman—the fates of Apryl and Seth draw ever closer." More...
	In the spirit of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", Brian J. Showers' The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories infests his own Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Showers has filled each story with fascinating regional history, local atmosphere, and architectural details that are clearly visible today. While this gives the stories a factual flavour, the supernatural elements are entirely fictional. The result is a realistic and shadow-filled portrait of a modern neighbourhood, written in the traditional style of the classic literary ghost story. More... Winner of the 2008 Children of the Night Award. Read Nightmare Revue's interview with Brian J. Showers.
	Newsletter: October 2009. A new booklet will soon be released published by The Swan River Press in conjunction with the Bram Stoker Society. Thirty Years A-Going: A History of the Bram Stoker Society by Albert Power. "It was on a raw January evening in 1980, at a public meeting held in the darkling pile of Trinity College Dublin's graduates memorial building, with its ample expanse of grey frontage, high windows and maw-like entrance led up to by a flight of stone steps, that the sturdy first steps to set up the Bram Stoker Society were taken. The date was January 10th and the event had been organised by the college Philosophical Society, of which Bram Stoker had been President in the session for 1869-1870." More...
	Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin is a new guidebook from Nonsuch Publishing Ireland that reconstructs the lives of Charles Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker as walking tours with the help of maps, photographs and excerpts from their works. Ideal for tourists who have come to explore Ireland's 1200 year old capital, native Dubliners who want to learn more about their city's spectral past, and those who just want a mind's eye tour of haunted Dublin. Written by Brian J. Showers, Illustrated by Duane Spurlock, Foreword by Pat Liddy and Cover Art by Meggan Kehrli. More...