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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.

Burning Effigy Press - www.burningeffigy.com
Burning Effigy Press was founded in 1999 as a way to bring fringe poetry, prose and fiction out from the trenches and onto the pages of chapbooks and anthologies. The driving force of Burning Effigy has always been that we are writers publishing writers. We love words that scream and bleed from the pages and demand to be heard.

Santiago Caruso - www.santiagocaruso.com.ar
His work stands out both for its vigor as well as for its technique. It is no overstatement to say that the work of Caruso, which is well represented in the galleries and museums of Buenos Aires, USA, Mexico and Spain, is currently one of the most pleasant revelations of Latin American plastic arts.

Chômu Press - www.chomupress.com
Chômu Press in an imprint dedicated to publishing fiction that is both imaginative and unhindered by considerations of genre. They aim to uncover and publish works that will make literature exciting and vital once more.

Eoin Coveney - eoincoveney.com
Eoin Coveney is an Irish illustrator who does commercial illustration for various companies around Ireland.

The Dracula Society - www.thedraculasociety.org.uk
The Dracula Society was formed in October 1973 by Bernard Davies and Bruce Wightman to cater for lovers of the Vampire and his Kind--werewolves, mummies, mad scientists, and all the other monsters spawned by the Gothic genre.

Dust, Unsettled - www.dust-unsettled.com/
Dust, Unsettled are a small label for releases of drone, electronic, phonography and experimental music albums, operated by Scottish sound artist Brian Lavelle.

Egaeus Press - www.egaeuspress.com
The foundations for Egaeus Press were laid in the cold English summer of 2011 in the dreamclutter of a childish melancholia - a nursery room agoraphobia compelling us to recall the anguished ticks of broken clockwork, the smell of curdled milk, the image of a songbird’s funeral on the tobacco-dry pages of an antique scrapbook . . .

Ex Occidente Press - www.exoccidente.com
Ex Occidente Press specialises in rara et nova fiction of the supernatural, the odd and the weird, the strange and the decadent, the fantastic and the obscure. Ex Occidente Press places equal emphasis on both new works from contemporary writers and works from an earlier age of European literature.

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.pardoes.info/roanddarroll/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.

Gothic Press - www.gwcgothicpress.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.

A Guide to Supernatural Fiction - supernaturalfiction.co.uk
The Guide to Supernatural Fiction edited by R.B. Russell is of great interest to connoisseurs of supernatural fiction. It is still a "work in progress", but already contains bibliographical information on over 360 authors and editors of supernatural fiction.

Hieroglyphic Press - hieroglyphicpress.co.uk
Hieroglyphic Press is a small imprint primarily dedicated to publishing works of an eclectic and rarefied nature: to use a quote from elsewhere they wish for spiritual art - Decadence, Esoterica and Symbolism.

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.

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.

Le Fanu Studies - www.lefanustudies.com
Le Fanu Studies (ISSN 1932-9598) invites essays on any aspect of the life and works of famous Victorian mystery and ghost story writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). It also seeks essays about works of drama, literature, and film related to Le Fanu.

Meggan Kehrli - www.meggankehrli.com
Meggan Kehrli runs a graphic design studio in Chicago. Her studio work includes a broad range of illustration, printmaking and paper arts projects--from corporate collateral to holiday cards.

Monica S. Kuebler - www.deathofcool.org
Writer, Maker, Gamer, Dreamer. Rue Morgue Magazine Managing Editor, Burning Effigy Press Editor-in-Chief, co-author of Some Words Spoken, and strange, creative human being.

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 . . .

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.

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.

New Genre - www.new-genre.com
New Genre is an annual publication edited by Adam Golaski and Jeff Paris which features new fiction that promotes craftsmanship and innovation in the fields of science and horror fiction.

Nightjar Press - nightjarpress.wordpress.com
Nightjar Press is a new independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. The publisher is Nicholas Royle, the designer John Oakey.

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'.

Octocon - www.nunkie.co.uk
Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, is a weekend celebration of the weird and wonderful, attracting artists, writers, film-makers and fans from across the human sphere of influence. Running since 1990, where our first Guest of Honour was Terry Pratchett, some of our guests have included Mike Carey and George R.R. Martin.

Reggie Oliver - www.blackcathedral.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, The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories, and The Masques of Satan.

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.

Rosalie Parker - www.tartaruspress.com/rmp1.htm
Rosalie is co-proprietor and editor of the independent publishing house, Tartarus Press, which has won two World Fantasy Awards. Additionally, Rosalie won a World Fantasy Award for editing Strange Tales in 2003. She is also the author of The Old Knowledge and Other Strange Tales (The Swan River Press, 2010).

PS Publishing - pspublishing.co.uk
PS Publishing is an award-winning, UK-based, independent publisher of science fiction, fantasy, horror and crime novellas, novels and short fiction collections. They also publish non-fiction and a quarterly short fiction digest magazine, Postscripts.

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.

Raky Press - www.rakypress.com
Fine letterpress, graphic design and print production. Sara Wrzesinski offers custom design and printing of busiess cards and ephemera. Highly recommended!

R.B. Russell - www.tartaruspress.com/russell1.htm
R.B. Russell is an English author, born in Sussex, who has a fondness for old books and vinyl records. Apart from Ghosts, Putting the Pieces in Place and Bloody Baudelaire, a further collection of tales, Literary Remains, was published by PS Publishing in 2010. Russell is co-proprietor of the independent publishing house Tartarus Press.

Sarob Press - sarobpress.blogspot.com
Although we originally closed in 2007 Sarob have re-launched the press. They keep their books nice and affordable even though they're limited numbered hardcovers. And they've also made every effort to give their books something of the look of their early titles. That's black and white cover art and illustrations . . . a ghostly touch.

Side Real Press - www.siderealpress.co.uk
Side Real Press was founded in 2003 as an imprint specialising in supernatural and weird literature past and present. Each volume is published as a numbered, limited edition hardback of approximately 300 copies.

The Singing Garden - www.thesinginggarden.co.uk
Website of Stephen J. Clark, surrealist painter, poet and author.

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.

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