Andrew Hook

In 1940, John Archibald McKenzie Rillie - serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps and newly married to Betty - was posted to the African city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This is the first publication of the writing and the poems, drawn in the main from his diary and the notebook in which he collated much of his war-time verse, that mark his experiences in the sixteen months that followed. In the words of his editor, and grandson, Alasdair Soussi, it is an 'expressive, outspoken, sometimes raw and uncomfortable account of a bygone age'. The later reflections of Jack Rillie, the by then greatly admired and influential university teacher, on this period - and on his life prior to the war - are presented in a brief introduction, "A Young Life Recalled". With a foreword by Andrew Hook and an afterword from Marshall Walker; reproductions of photographs and letters; and even a list of books Jack read while in Sierra Leone, the man who inspired so many is revealed both for his formidable scholarship and his love.

For the first time collected together, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the third collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark". Featuring fiction by Simon Addams, Barbra Annino, Richard Farren Barber, David Brookes, Eric S. Brown, Kevin Brown, Tom Cardamone, Lee Collins, Nicholas Day, Thomas Henry Dylan, Paul Eckert, Craig Hallam, Andrew Hook, Adrian Ludens, David McGillveray, Christian McPhate, Colin Meldrum, Andrew Morris, Aaron Polson, John M. Radosta, Willie Smith, Alan Spencer, Wayne Summers, Lennart Svensson, Kevin Wallis. Established horror best-sellers rub shoulders with rising stars and newcomers in this diverse collection of short weird fiction.

Shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards 2023 Candescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies of mostly Golden Era Hollywood actors who suffered untimely deaths. From Olive Thomas in 1920 through to Grace Kelly in 1982, these pieces utilise facts, fiction, gossip, movies and unreliable memories to examine the life of each individual character set against a Hollywood background of hope and corruption, opportunity and reality.

Andrew Hook sees the world through a different lens. He takes often mundane things and coaxes the reader to find strangeness, beauty, and horror in their form; he colours the world in surreal shades and leads the reader down discomforting paths where nothing is quite as it should be. Frequencies of Existence features twenty-four of the author's finest stories, including four that are original to this collection." Andrew Hook is an undisputed superstar of strange fiction" - Neil Williamson, author of The Moon King"A rich slab of Andrew Hook's trademark understated darkness: measured, careful, but ruthless in its own quiet way." - Chris Beckett, Arthur C. Clarke and Edge Hill Prize-winning author." His stories range from the darkly apocalyptic to the hopefully visionary, some brilliant and none less than satisfactory." - The Harrow"Refreshingly original, uncompromisingly provocative, and daringly intelligent" - The Future FireContents: Your Golden Hands The Universe At Gun Point Kodokushi A Knot of Toads The Abduction of Europe The Aniseed Gumball KidEskimo The Last Mohican BulletA Life In Plastic Burning DaylightMaking Friends With Fold-Out FlapsThe Frequency of ExistenceThe Stench of WinterA Pageant of CloudsAlways Forever TodayThe Caged SeaInterferenceSoftwoodMy Naked ManTokyo In RainThe Day My Heart Stood StillDrowning In AirWhite MatterAbout the Author

From Black Shuck Books and Andrew Hook comes The Forest of Dead Children, the eleventh in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series. In The Forest of Dead Children, Hook offers five tales of children in peril.

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this third volume of American Literature in Context focuses on the struggles of American writers to make sense of their rapidly changing world. In addition to such major figures as Walt Whitman, Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, it analyses the writings of an unorthodox economist (Henry George), a Utopian reformer (Edward Bellamy) and a critical sociologist (Thorstein Veblen). Particular attention is paid to the challenge to conventional literary and cultural values represented by writers such as William Dean Howell who pursued a new form of scientific, democratic realism in American writing. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.

Two green-skinned children are discovered who claim to have come from within the earth. The local legend states that the boy died, and the girl married but had no children. Is the legend true? OCD sufferers often perpetuate their rituals believing that if they fail to do so their families will suffer. But what if they are correct - that their rituals are necessary to maintain life's balance? And what if it was discovered that many OCD sufferers are descendants of the green children... The Greens is a modern fantasy/horror novella which merges the 12th Century Suffolk legend of the green children and sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder.

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this third volume of American Literature in Context focuses on the struggles of American writers to make sense of their rapidly changing world. In addition to such major figures as Walt Whitman, Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, it analyses the writings of an unorthodox economist (Henry George), a Utopian reformer (Edward Bellamy) and a critical sociologist (Thorstein Veblen). Particular attention is paid to the challenge to conventional literary and cultural values represented by writers such as William Dean Howell who pursued a new form of scientific, democratic realism in American writing. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.