Horror at Halloween
Edited by Jo Fletcher
Created by Stephen Jones
Stories by John Gordon, Stephen Bowkett, Diane Duane, Craig Shaw Gardner and Charles L. Grant
Part 1 published by Robinson:
3 October 2011
Full eBook published by Robinson:
31 October 2011
THIS HALLOWEEN comes a publishing first . . . an eBook-only serialisation of five super-scary horror stories, with the first installment made available as a free Kindle eBook for readers in the UK and the USA. The other four sections will come out over the build-up to Halloween, when the full version will be released.
There will also be a Twitter marketing campaign to get YA and horror readers on both sides of the Atlantic excited about the book, with different Halloween-themed prizes available to win for tweeting about each installment.
OXRUN STATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN DIFFERENT
Nobody can really explain it. You just have to understand that bizarre things happen there. They just do. Weird things. The kind of things you don’t even want to dream about in your worst nightmares. Like the tings that happen this Halloween to Sam Jones, Eleanor Trent, Tina Broadbent, Chuck Antrim and Cody Banning...
Trick or Treat is crazy enough, with ghosts and goblins and witches and warlocks and all manner of other horrors roaming the streets. But in Oxrun Station, the masks aren’t always made of rubber.
The fabric of the cosmos is unravelling and dark and dangerous things are leaking across the borders...
For five unsuspecting teenagers, their lives will never be the same again as they discover the hidden terrors lurking beneath the surface of their quiet town and experience the most horrifying Halloween of them all...
This year in Oxrun Station, THE TRICK IS TO STAY ALIVE!
ABOUT JO FLETCHER
JO FLETCHER lives in North London. As an editor, writer, poet and journalist, she has been published widely throughout the world. She has won an International Society of Poets Award, the British Fantasy Society’s inaugural Karl Edward Wagner Award, and the World Fantasy Award – Professional. In 1985 Jo joined the fledgling independent publishing company Headline and masterminded the launch of the imprint’s fantasy, SF and horror list. She has since worked in various editorial capacities at such British publishers as Mandarin, Penguin, Pan Books and Gollancz. In 2011 she launched Jo Fletcher Books (
http://www.jofletcherbooks.com/), a genre imprint of Quercus Publishing.
ABOUT STEPHEN JONES
STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a twenty-one time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant, he has written and edited more than 110 books. You can visit his web site at:
http://www.stephenjoneseditor.com/
ABOUT STEPHEN BOWKETT
STEPHEN BOWKETT was born and brought up in the mining valleys of South Wales. He began writing at the age of thirteen, and had his first book published in 1985. Since then he has become a full-time writer and qualified hypnotherapist. His early published work consisted of fantasy for teenagers. He has since diversified into teen and adult horror (the latter under the pseudonym Ben Leech), teen romance, mainstream fiction for pre-teens, fiction for younger readers, non-fiction, and poetry for all ages. The author still enjoys visiting schools and libraries to tell stories, but points out that ‘Although some of them are funny . . . others are very, very scary . . .’
ABOUT DIANE DUANE
DIANE DUANE was born in Manhattan (a direct descendant of the first mayor of New York City after the Revolutionary War). She now lives in rural Ireland with her husband, science fiction and fantasy writer Peter Morwood. She has written fifty or so novels and numerous short stories, as well as scripts for TV series (such as
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gargoyles, and
Batman: The Animated Series), computer games, comic books and audio works. Diane is most widely known for her series of young adult books featuring ‘Young Wizards’ Nita Callahan and Kit Rodriguez, starting with
So You Want to Be a Wizard. You can visit her website at:
http://www.dianeduane.com/
ABOUT CRAIG SHAW GARDNER
CRAIG SHAW GARDNER was born in Rochester, New York, a place where it snows far too often. He has written more than three dozen novels, as well as several best-selling film and television novelisations, including
The Lost Boys, Batman, Back to the Future Parts II and III, the Hallmark Entertainment miniseries
Leprechauns and
Jason and the Argonauts, and the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and
Battlestar Galactica series. Craig is a past president of the Horror Writers’ Association and has seen his short stories appear in numerous anthologies, including
Shadows, Ghosts, Midnight and
Doom City. You can visit his website at:
http://www.craigshawgardner.co/
ABOUT JOHN GORDON
JOHN GORDON was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne and now lives in Norwich with his wife, Sylvia. As a child he moved with his family to Wisbech in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, where he went to school. After serving in the Royal Navy on minesweepers and destroyers during World War II he became a journalist on various local newspapers. His first book for young adults, The Giant Under the Snow, was published by Hutchinson in 1968 and gained praise from Alan Garner, among others. Since then, John has published a number of fantasy and horror novels including The House on the Brink, The Ghost on the Hill, The Quelling Eye, The Grasshopper, Ride the Wind, Blood Brothers, Gilray’s Ghost, The Flesh Eater, The Midwinter Watch, Skinners, The Ghosts of Blacklode, and Fen Runners. His autobiography, Ordinary Seaman, was published by Walker Books in 1992.
ABOUT CHARLES L. GRANT
CHARLES L. GRANT (1942-2006) was born in Newark, New Jersey. A former teacher turned writer, as a military policeman in the US Army in Vietnam during the late 1960s he was awarded the Bronze Star. During his career as a prolific author and editor, Charlie wrote in various genres under numerous pseudonyms and was described by Stephen King as ‘The premier horror writer of his or any generation’. His series of novels about the cursed Connecticut town of Oxrun Station comprises The Hour of the Oxrun Dead, The Sound of Midnight, The Last Call of Mourning, The Grave, The Bloodwind, The Soft Whisper of the Dead, The Long Night of the Grave, Nightmare Seasons, The Orchard, Dialing the Wind and The Black Carousel. A winner of three World Fantasy Awards and two Nebula Awards, Charlie was also a recipient of the British Fantasy Society’s Special Award and the Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002 he was named Grand Master by the World Horror Convention
