Dark Hall Press Techno-Horror Anthology

by Oliver Smith, Michael Bray, D.J. Tyrer

Dark Hall Press is proud to present our Techno-Horror Anthology - ten tales of technological terrors from some of the most talented voices in the field. In the vein of such seminal works as Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, H.G. Wells's THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, and Ira Levin's THE STEPFORD WIVES, these stories depict the horrific consequences of man's desire to subvert the natural order through scientific and technological advances.

Genres: Horror

130 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 2014

About the author

Oliver Smith was born in 1966, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His stories generally deal with the weird, fantastic, and speculative: there’s a mermaid in the bathroom, jars of pickled brains are plotting in the pantry, a giant flea is sat where the flatmate used to be, and down the pub a strange green man has lost his head and isn't going to take it lying down.
He studied fine art painting and his writing practice developed from an interest in various surrealist techniques. He utilizes an analogous approach when writing using various cut-up and fold in techniques, automatic writing, and formal poetic exercises.
His influences include Kingsley Amis, Lucius Apuleius, J G Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alasdair Gray, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, H P Lovecraft, David Madsen, Gustav Meyrink, Michael Moorcock, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert Rosendorfer, Bruno Schulz, Clark Ashton Smith, and August Strindberg.
His prose writing has appeared in the following anthologies:
‘Land’s End’ Inkermen Press (2008) , ‘Cold Turkey’ Inkermen Press (2009), ‘This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz’ Ex Occidente Press (2012), ‘Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Ex Occidente Press/Zagava Press (2013), ‘Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror Anthology’ Dark Hall Press (2014)
His poetry has appeared in S T Joshi’s ‘Spectral Realms’ from Hippocampus Press.

More short stories are due to be published in the anthologies ‘History and Horror, Oh My’ from Mystery and Horror, LLC and ‘Techno-Horror’ from Dark Hall Press.

Reviews

[Bandit · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm the first person to review this. Very good, exceptionally timely theme for anthology, the way technology has been taking over lives with its omnipotent promises is in a way quite insidious. This stories reflect various aspects and angles of techno backfiring. All very solid entries, different, mostly new (to me at least names. Interesting read, thought provoking, disturbing, not great but pretty uniformly good. Entertainment of the intelligent variety and a fun way to spend a couple of hours. Recommended.

[Kelly Penrose · Rating 4 out of 5]

While a few of the stories benefit from a second read, just to make sure you understood what was going on, the majority of these short stories are as easy to be drawn into as they are dark once you're there. Some ideals that really could be plausible in the future, and that might be more terrifying than normal.

[D.H. Hanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really solid anthology. I don't normally go for horror but this anthology wasn't so much about blood and guts but more about the potential evil side of how much technology we have in our world. To me this is much scarier than some deranged person in a mask running around with an axe killing people. I liked almost all of the stories and loved reading the different interpretations on the theme.

[Wayne's · Rating 2 out of 5]

Diverting!