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Black Shuck Shadows
Series · 28
books · 2016-2022

Books in series

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#1

The Spirits of Christmas

2016

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In The Spirits of Christmas, Kane presents three stories of Christmas ghosts.
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#2

Tales of New Mexico

2017

Contains "The Gathering of Sheaves" and "The Vespertine"
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#3

Unquiet Waters

2017

Unquiet Waters - four tales of aquatic unease by British Fantasy Award nominee Thana Niveau.
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#4

The Life Cycle

2017

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror.In The Life Cycle, Kane offers four connected stories of werewolves. Contains the short stories Nightlife, Half-Life, Lifetime and Another Life.
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#5

The Death of Boys

2018

Gary Fry’s THE DEATH OF BOYS presents a trio of teenager terror in: Zappers, Cat-B and The House of the Rising Son.
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#7

The Martledge Variations

2018

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror.In The Martledge Variations, Unsworth offers three tales featuring paranormal investigator Richard Nakata.
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#8

Singing Back the Dark

2018

Simon Bestwick’s SINGING BACK THE DARK showcases a quintet of macabre musicality in: The Psalm, Hard Time Killing Floor Blues, And All The Souls In Hell Shall Sing, Moon Going Down and Effigies of Glass.
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#9

Winter Freits

2019

Andrew David Barker’s WINTER FREITS presents a trio of wintry writings in: Polar Vortex, The House on Lidderman Street and Christopher.
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#11

The Forest of Dead Children

2019

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In The Forest of Dead Children, Hook offers five tales of children in peril.
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#12

At Home in the Shadows

2019

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In At Home in the Shadows, Gary McMahon offers five tales of homeowner horror: Text Found on a Defunct Webpage, The Chair, The Table, On the Walls, and Open House.
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#13

Suffer Little Children

2019

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror.In Suffer Little Children, Penny Jones offer six stories of juvenile peril.
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#14

Shadowcats

2019

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In Shadowcats, Anna Taborska offer five pieces of feline fear.
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#15

Flowers of War

2019

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In Flowers of War, Mark Howard Jones offer four pieces of military horror.
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#16

The Watcher in the Woods

2020

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. From Black Shuck Books and Charlotte Bond comes The Watcher in the Woods, the sixteenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
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#17

Voices

2020

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Kit Power comes Voices, the seventeenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
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#18

The Adventures of Mr Polkington

2020

From Black Shuck Books and Tina Rath comes The Adventures of Mr Polkington, the eighteenth in the Black Shuck Shadows series, micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
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#19

Green Fingers

2020

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Dan Coxon comes Green Fingers, the nineteenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
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#20

Three Mothers, One Father

2020

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. From Black Shuck Books and Sean Hogan comes Three Mothers, One Father, the twentieth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
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#22

Fearsome Creatures

2020

From Aliya Whiteley comes Fearsome Creatures, the twenty-second in Black Shuck's 'Shadows', a series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. Featuring the stories: 'Day of the Dog', 'The Lovers That Lie Down in Fields', 'Luisa Opines', 'Wrapped', and 'A Very Modern Monster'.
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#23

Stages of Fear

2021

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
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#24

En Vacances

2021

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
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#25

Nine Ghosts

2021

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
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#26

Hinterlands

2021

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. " Hinterlands contains elegant, absorbing stories that create swirling moods of wonder, of melancholy, of regret and delight. These are powerful tales that are well worth the discovery." – Aliya Whiteley, award-winning author of The Beauty, The Loosening Skin and many more "There is an irresistible punk vibe George Sandison’s stories are as disquieting as they are unflinching. If life is a struggle against reality, these are snapshots from the front lines." – Francesco Dimitri, author of The Book of Hidden Things " Hinterlands takes you to places inhabited by predatory tower blocks, offices that move when you're not paying attention, and strange things that lift their heads in the forgotten aisles of automated warehouses. Weird and unsettling in all the best ways." – James Brogden, author of Hekla's Children, The Hollow Tree and more "A great collection of horror stories, beautifully written. Each one is gritty with realism which makes the ultimate descent into horror all the more shocking - and fun! Highly recommended. – R.L. Boyle, author of The Book of the Baku
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#27

Beyond Glass

2021

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
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#28

A Box Full of Darkness

2021

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. Number twenty-eight: A Box Full of Darkness by Simon Avery
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#29

That Fatal Shore

2022

From Black Shuck Books and Sean Hogan comes That Fatal Shore, the twenty-ninth in the Black Shuck Shadows series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
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#30

The Flowering

2022

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. From Black Shuck Books and Alison Littlewood comes The Flowering, the thirtieth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
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#31

Chasing Spirits

2022

Meet John Glory, ex-doctor turned paperback tie-in writer (aha!) and any other writing job going (even more aha!) who inadvertently ends up investigating all sorts of weirdness. CHASING SPIRITS chronicles his first three adventures: Fistlock!, Give My Regards to Alan Smithee, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlatan.

Authors

Paul Kane
Paul Kane
Author · 22 books

Paul Kane has been writing professionally for almost fifteen years. His genre journalism has appeared in such magazines as Fangoria, SFX and Rue Morgue, and his non-fiction books are the critically acclaimed The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark. His award-winning short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic (as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio 2), and has been collected in Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, FunnyBones, Peripheral Visions, Shadow Writer, The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, The Spaces Between and GHOSTS. His novella Signs of Life reached the shortlist of the British Fantasy Awards 2006, The Lazarus Condition was introduced by Mick Garris - creator of Masters of Horror - RED featured artwork from Dave (The Graveyard Book) McKean and Pain Cages was introduced by Stephen Volk (The Awakening). As Special Publications Editor of the British Fantasy Society he worked with authors like Brian Aldiss, Ramsey Campbell, Muriel Gray and Robert Silverberg, he is the co-editor of Hellbound Hearts for Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster), an anthology of original stories inspired by Clive Barker's mythos - featuring contributions from the likes of Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola, Kelley Armstrong and Richard Christian Matheson - The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (Constable & Robinson) - featuring Stephen King, James Herbert and Robert Bloch - and the Poe-inspired Beyond Rue Morgue (for Titan). In 2008 his zombie story 'Dead Time' was turned into an episode of the Lionsgate/NBC TV series Fear Itself, adapted by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II-IV). He also scripted The Opportunity which premiered at Cannes in 2009, The Weeping Woman - starring Fright Night's Stephen Jeffreys - and Wind Chimes (directed by Brad '7th Dimension' Watson. He is the author of the novels Of Darkness and Light, The Gemini Factor and the bestselling Arrowhead trilogy (Arrowhead, Broken Arrow and Arrowland), a post-apocalyptic reworking of the Robin Hood mythology gathered together as the sell-out Hooded Man omnibus. His latest novels are Lunar (which is set to be turned into a feature film) and the short Y.A. book The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane). He currently lives in Derbyshire, UK, with his wife - the author Marie O'Regan - his family, and a black cat called Mina. You can find out more at his website www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz, John Connolly and Guillermo del Toro.

Joseph D'Lacey
Joseph D'Lacey
Author · 13 books

Became vegetarian after writing MEAT. Fond of meditation, unfathomable questions and cats. Repped by Robert Dinsdale. "Joseph D'Lacey rocks!" Stephen King.

Thana Niveau
Thana Niveau
Author · 5 books

Thana Niveau lives in a crumbling gothic tower in Wicker Man country. She shares her life with fellow horror scribe John Llewellyn Probert, in a Victorian library filled with arcane books and curiosities. All her life Thana has been drawn to the darker aspects of life. She was a fearful child, plagued by nightmares and anxiety. Horror saved her. Scary films gave her an outlet for all that darkness and fear became her friend. Jason and Freddy were her childhood companions. On the literary side, Poe was her first great horror love, followed swiftly by Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell. Their stories frightened her while at the same time inspiring her. She still had nightmares, but now they were more like visits from a slightly sadistic muse. Writing all the scary stuff down turned it from a curse into a blessing.

Simon Avery
Simon Avery
Author · 4 books

Born in 1971, Simon Avery lives and works in Birmingham. Over the last twenty-two years he has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies including Black Static, Crimewave, The Best British Mysteries IV, Beneath the Ground, Birmingham Noir, Terror Tales of Yorkshire and Something Remains. He has been nominated for the Crime Writers Association Dagger award and the British Fantasy Award. The Teardrop Method, a novella from TTA Press was shortlisted for the World Fantasy award. He can be contacted via Facebook, Twitter and his blog at: https://simonaveryblog.wordpress.com/

Gary McMahon
Author · 39 books
Gary McMahon lives, works and writes in West Yorkshire but posseses a New York state of mind. He shares his life with a wife, a son, and the nagging stories that won’t give him any peace until he writes them.
Charlotte Bond
Charlotte Bond
Author · 4 books
Charlotte is an author, freelance editor, and podcaster. Under her own name she has written within the genres of horror and dark fantasy, but she’s also worked as a ghostwriter. She edits books for individuals and publishers, and has also contributed numerous non-fiction articles to various websites. She is a co-host of the award-winning podcast, “Breaking the Glass Slipper”. Her micro collection The Watcher in the Woods won the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2021. She is represented by Alex Cochran.
Dan Coxon
Dan Coxon
Author · 7 books
Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. His non-fiction anthology Writing The Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) won the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction 2022, while his short story collection Only The Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books) was shortlisted for two British Fantasy Awards in 2021 (Best Collection, Best Newcomer). In 2018 his anthology of British folk-horror, This Dreaming Isle (Unsung Stories), was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies, including Nox Pareidolia, Beyond the Veil, Mother: Tales of Love and Terror and Fiends in the Furrows III. His latest anthology - Isolation - was published by Titan Books in September 2022.
Simon Bestwick
Simon Bestwick
Author · 19 books
Simon Bestwick was born in Wolverhampton in 1974. He has worked in various jobs, from fast food operative through drama teacher to training administrator. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Nasty Piece of Work, All Hallows, Darkness Rising, Extremes 5, and Beneath the Ground. He lives in Swinton, Lancashire, and when not writing can be found indulging his interests: walking, films, literature, rock, folk, and jazz music, good food, and the occasional pint.
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