The Box

by Stephen Gallagher

Two stories. The Box was written for a loosely-themed hardcover anthology titled Retro Pulp Tales, edited by Joe R Lansdale. In the year of its publication it won the International Horror Guild 'Outstanding Achievement in Horror and Dark Short Fiction' award presented at the World Fantasy Convention at Saratoga Springs.The second story, Eels, was written for a special edition of Postscripts magazine, edited by Peter Crowther for PS Publishing.For more of the same see OUT OF HIS MIND, the BFS Award-winning collection of twenty-two stories and novellas with an introduction by Brian Clemens.

20 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 21, 2011

About the author

Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has a career both as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. His fifteen novels include Chimera, Oktober, Valley of Lights and Nightmare, with Angel. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's Crusoe, creator of CBS Television's Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's The Forgotten. Recent screen credits include an award-winning Silent Witness and Stan Lee's Lucky Man.

He began his TV career as a writer on two seasons of Doctor Who, and wrote two novelizations of his stories under the pseudonym John Lydecker.

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