Darklands: No. 1

Darklands #1

by Nicholas Royle (Editor), Ramsey Campbell (Foreword), Stephen Gallagher (Contributor)

An anthology of horror which has already been awarded the BFS award for Best Anthology. Authors featured include Stephen Gallagher, Julie Akhurst, Mark Morris, Judy Hines and Derek Marlowe.

Contents

5 • Foreword (Darklands) • essay by Ramsey Campbell
7 • Introduction (Darklands) • essay by Nicholas Royle
9 • The Visitors' Book • shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
19 • Small Pieces of Alice • shortstory by Julie Akhurst
28 • The Fertilizer Man • shortstory by Mark Morris
37 • The Little Boy's Room • shortstory by Kevin Mullins
43 • Under the Fairy Lights • shortstory by Judy Hines
44 • The Rolling Road to Kensal Green • shortstory by Alan David Price
56 • Pavlov's Wristwatch • shortstory by Philip Nutman
71 • The Vanishing Point • shortstory by Brian Howell
83 • Common Land • shortstory by Joel Lane
93 • Sweet Nothing • shortstory by Derek Marlowe
99 • The Dark Land • shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Anthologies

116 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 1993

About the author

Nicholas Royle is an English writer. He is the author of seven novels, two novellas and a short story collection. He has edited sixteen anthologies of short stories. A senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. He works as a fiction reviewer for The Independent and the Warwick Review and as an editor for Salt Publishing.