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LINKS

Albedo One - www.albedo1.com
Albedo One is Ireland’s longest-running and foremost magazine of the fantastic. Since 1993, they have published stories of both Irish and international authors which push at the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Ash-Tree Press - www.ash-tree.bc.ca/ashtreecurrent.html
Since 1994, Ash-Tree Press has published a wide range of quality supernatural fiction in hardcover limited editions, including the works of M.R. James, Wakefield, Le Fanu and others.

Eoin Coveney - www.illustratorsireland.com
Eoin Coveney is an Irish illustrator who does commercial storyboarding and graphic design for various companies around Ireland.

Tony Earnshaw - www.tonyearnshaw.com
Tony Earnshaw is an author, journalist, broadcaster, film programmer, film festival director, and writer of Beating the Devil: The Making of Night of the Demon.

Friends of Arthur Machen - www.machensoc.demon.co.uk
The Friends Of Arthur Machen is a fellowship which exists to foster interest in Machen and his work, to aid research, and for the pleasure of its members.

A Ghostly Company - www.aghostlycompany.org.uk/
A Ghostly Company was formed in April 2004 and is a literary society devoted to the ghost story in all its forms, though preference is given to the traditional and time-honoured fiction, as well as more modern and contemporary authors.

Ghosts & Scholars - www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/GS.html
Ghosts & Scholars was founded in 1979 to encouraging scholarly research into James, his themes and his followers. The newsletter is edited by Rosemary Pardoe.

The Ghost Story Society - www.ash-tree.bc.ca/GSS.html
The Ghost Story Society was formed in 1988 to provide admirers of the classic ghost story with an outlet for their interest, and membership of the Society now numbers more than 400 worldwide. The society's journal, All Hallows, is published tri-annually.

Gothic Press - www.gothicpress.com
Gothic Press was founded in 1979 by Gary William Crawford to publish books and periodicals in the field of Gothic literature. In May of 2006, Crawford began the online journal Le Fanu Studies.

Gray Friar Press - www.grayfriarpress.com
Gray Friar Press is dedicated to presenting the best writing in the field of dark literature. They published the anthology Poe's Progeny and Stephen Volk's Dark Corners.

Scott Hampton - www.mothcomix.com
Amazing Painter, Wonderous Illustrator, and a Swell Guy. From Batman to Sandman, Black Widow and even Hellraiser, Scott Hampton's work is prized amongst collectors and the industry alike.

Jason van Hollander - www.jasonvanhollander.com
Jason van Hollander is an artist who has designed book jackets for Ash-Tree Press, Night Shade Books, Arkham House and many others. He did the cover art for Ash-Tree Press's Acquainted with the Night.

Imperium Comics - www.imperiumcomics.com
Publishers of the horror comic anthology Trailer Park of Terror. Brian J. Showers and Stephen Molnar's 'Mushrooms' appeared in #4.

Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies - irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com
The IJGHS aims to combine academic credibility and critical excellence with genuine enthusiasm for the subjects featured in its on-line journal. They are currently seeking submissions.

Chico Kidd - www.chico.nildram.co.uk
Chico Kidd has been writing ghost stories since 1979. She is the author of Summoning Knells, along with Rick Kennett the co-author of Number 472 Cheyne Walk, and the chronicler of Captain da Silva's exploits.

Pat Liddy - www.patliddy.com
Pat Liddy is a widely acclaimed artist and writer of Walking Dublin, Secret Dublin, and Dublin: A Celebration. He also runs www.walkingtours.ie.

Literary Gothic - www.litgothic.com
The Literary Gothic is a web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20.

Gary McMahon - www.garymcmahon.com
Gary McMahon writes contemporary horror stories that are rooted in the traditions of classic weird fiction. His stomping ground is often the alienating urban sprawl of modern life, but the horrors he meets there are timeless and very, very hungry . . .

Mercier Press - www.mercierpress.ie
Mercier Press is based in Cork, Ireland. They publish fiction and non-fiction. In March 2008 will publish my first collection: The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories.

Elizabeth Miller - www.blooferland.com
Elizabeth Miller is recognized internationally for her expertise on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula--its origins in folklore, literature and history, as well as its influence on twentieth-century culture.

Stephen Molnar - www.stephenmolnar.com
Stephen Molnar is an illustrator for, among other comics, Imperium's Trailer Park of Terrors.

MooreReppion - www.moorereppion.com
Leah Moore and John Reppion, purveyors of fine comics since 2003. Together this super-duo have written award winning comics such as Albion and Raise the Dead. The future of comics has nothing to worry about.

Nonsuch Ireland - www.nonsuchireland.com
Nonsuch Ireland, part of the Nonsuch Publishing Group, are the publishers of Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin and other local Irish history books.

Nunkie Theatre Company - www.nunkie.co.uk
The Nunkie Theatre Company is the production company behind 'A Pleasing Terror: Two Stories by M.R. James', Robert Lloyd Parry's excellent one-man play that recreates an intimate fireside atmosphere in which James himself tells 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook' and 'The Mezzotint'.

Reggie Oliver - hitler-symphonies.co.uk
Reggie Oliver is an actor, illustrator, and the author of two very fine books of strange stories: The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories and The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories.

P-Con - www.pcon.ie
P-Con is an Irish literary SF, fantasy and horror convention, which means that it is a convention dedicated more to the written end of the spectrum, rather than to the TV or movie side of the genre.

Pulprack - www.pulprack.com
The Pulp Rack is a reference and critical site dedicated to the pop culture fiction of the 20th Century--adventure & western pulps, Max Brand/Frederick Faust, Talbot Mundy, and more.

Jim Rockhill - http://www.prairienet.org/~almahu/jrock.htm
Jim Rockhill is a noted scholar of supernatural literature, and also the editor of Ash-Tree Press's definitive, three volume collection of the complete supernatural tales of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

Doug Sirois - www.dougsirois.com
Doug Sirois illustrates and designes everything from children’s book covers and cd covers to clothing and comic book.

Supernatural Tales - www.chico.nildram.co.uk/SupernaturalTales.html
Supernatural Tales has published stories by some of the most gifted authors working in the genre today. It has won recognition from well-known editors of 'Years Best' horror anthologies, but has consistently pushed at the boundaries of what constitutes supernatural fiction.

Tartarus Press - www.tartaruspress.com
Tartarus Press are a small, independent publishing house, specialising in interesting fiction from the past and present. Their titles cross various genres and are often of an unusual nature, which means that they may have been overlooked by mainstream publishers.

Guillermo del Toro - www.deltorofilms.com
Guillermo del Toro is the director of The Devil's Backbone, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and Blade II.

Ubatuber Productions - ubatuberproductions.blogspot.com
Jeffrey C. Roche is a painter, a sculptor, filmmaker, & photographer, a printmaker & woodburner. He's also does brilliant stop-motion short films including Pandora, Widow and Jenny Greenteeth. Check them out at the above link.