The Female of the Species And Other Terror Tales

[Shadow Voice]

David Sutton's Shadow Publishing is delighted to announce the publication of The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales by Richard Davis (1935-2005).

The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales ("Writers from the Shadows #1")
Shadow Publishing 2012
Paperback 240 pages, £7.99
ISBN: 978-0-9539032-4-5
Cover Artwork by Caroline O'Neal

Richard never saw a collection of his stories published in his lifetime and this book includes all of the author's short stories, culled from as far back as 1963 and 'The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories' up to the 1980s. The collection contains an introduction about his life, the fiction and anthologies, including his work as story editor for the BBC's Late Night Horror series. The book will also feature two rare articles and an interview with the author, from the late 1960s.

"At the time I interviewed Richard for my small press magazine in 1969, he was already an established short story writer, had compiled two anthologies for Tandem Books and the BBC series Out of the Unknown, for which he worked as assistant story editor, had been on air since 1965... Yet, some forty plus years later, Richard’s fiction has largely been forgotten. Although not prolific, he was widely published in anthologies in England. Yet he never saw a collection of his tales published during his lifetime. Hence this book and its integration into a projected series under the collective tag, Writers from the Shadows." (From the Introduction).

Contents:
Introduction by David A. Sutton; The Female of the Species; Elsie and Agnes; A Day Out; The Lady by the Stream; The Inmate; A Nice Cut off the Joint; Guy Fawkes Night; The Time of Waiting; The Sick Room; The Clump; The Nondescript; What We Were Looking for in Horror; An Interview with Richard Davis; Horror in Fiction; Bibliography.

The cover artist is the painter and illustrator Caroline O'Neal. Caroline has done dark fantasy illustration for Bad Moon Books, Premonitions and Midnight Street magazines, among others.

More Information:
Personal website: http://davidasutton.co.uk/Question.html
Shadow Publishing site: http://www.shadowpublishing.webeasysite.co.uk
Follow my blog at: http://shadowpublishing.blogspot.co.uk

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Read the first review of The Female of the Species And Other Terror Tales on the British Fantasy Society website at: http://www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk/reviews.

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There's a lengthy look at the stories and various comments appended on the Vault of Evil site (http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi). Click on the board "Eighties, Nineties, Noughties, Big Fat Books".

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The second review, another favourable one, has appeared on the Shiny Shorts blogsite. The reviewer, Mario Guslandi, says in part, "Praise then to Shadow Publishing for assembling Davis’ horror tales in a long overdue collection, enriched with two rare essays of the author about horror genre". The review goes on to discuss several of the stories in the volume. Check it out at: http://shinyshortfic.blogspot.co.uk/

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This is Horror have just published Caroline Callaghan's interview with me about Shadow Publishing. Here's the link: http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/read-h...ow-publishing/

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There's more information about me and Shadow Publshing in an interview by Colin Leslie, which has just been posted on The Black Abyss website. See the "Inquisitions" page here: http://www.blackabyss.co.uk/2012/06/...avid-a-sutton/

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Read Robert Morrish's excellent review, "Examining The Fairer Sex in Richard Davis's The Female of the Species", at http://twilightridge.net/blog/

"The type of book that I love to see from small presses — a gathering of never-before-collected tales by an overlooked writer from decades past... Despite all the wonderful ancillary material, the main draw is obviously the fiction, and there’s a lot to like in that department, starting with the title story".

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A new review of The Female of the Species and Other Terror Tales, by Peter Tennant, has been published in the latest issue of Black Static magazine (# 30, Sep-Oct 2012).