“Kami Ga Kikoemasu” by Mike Chinn Each wave reared higher than the Oji-Maru’s rails. Hooked fingers of white spume reaching for the whale-chaser before they collapsed back into the grey sea. Ishimaeru’s guts clenched every time, leaving him shaking and hollow with fear. The next time that clawing foam might hide the gleam of bone, or the …
‘The Ballad of Lucy Lightfoot’ by Jan Edwards Only one remained on the Isle of Wight who remembered Lucy Lightfoot. He was the reason she had returned, and the reason she stood in the church porch, debating on whether seven hundred years was long enough. She hesitated, glancing toward the setting sun, and then retreated …
‘Lives’ by John Grant We are waiting for Christopher to get home. Sipping wine around the kitchen table, Alice and I are just at the stage of starting to get worried. He’s all right, we say to each other occasionally, betraying our concern that there might be something wrong. He’s all right: Dick Charters will …
Discover how Damian first met Leigh in the story “Good Evening, Princess”. This and another five Paladin stories – featuring monsters, heroics and biplanes – are all available in The Paladin Mandates by Mike Chinn. ISBN 978-0-9532260-0-9 Cover and interior illustrations by Bob Covington Mixing in generous dollops of The Scorpion, The Shadow and Dominic Fortune, with a fascination …
The Alchemy Press’s first eBook in Kindle format was “Sailors of the Skies”, a novella by Mike Chinn (originally published in Dark Horizons in 2009). A Damian Paladin adventure: Mix generous dollops of The Scorpion, The Shadow and Dominic Fortune, a taste for 1930s detective fiction, and the simple desire to tell a creepy tale… If you enjoyed The Paladin …
Kim Newman‘s award-winning Where the Bodies Are Buried was co-published in 2000 by the Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Publications. The book collects the four “Bodies” stories: “Where the Bodies Are Buried” “Where the Bodies Are Buried II: Sequel Hook” “Where the Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White and Red All Over” “Where the Bodies Are Buried 2020” …
Rumours of the Marvellous by Peter Atkins includes fourteen of the writer’s best stories. Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, features an introduction by Glen Hirshberg, a cover painting by Les Edwards. Co-published by The Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Productions. ISBN 978-0-9532260-6-1 Contents: King of Outer Space Stacy and Her Idiot Between the Cold Moon and the Earth Doctor Arcadia …
Beneath the Ground, edited by Joel Lane, includes thirteen stories of the mystery and terror that wait beneath the ground. Here are tales that explore the transition between our world and the tunnels and mines beneath. Tales that reveal what creatures dwell far from the light of day. And tales that explore the far reaches of …
Shadows of Light and Dark is a collection of 32 poems by award-winning poet Jo Fletcher. The book was co-produced by the Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Publications in 1998. ISBN 978-0-9532260-1-6 Published in a limited edition of 250 copies (cover price £12.99), signed by Jo Fletcher, Neil Gaiman (introduction), Les Edwards (front cover artwork), Seamus A Ryan …
Swords against the Millennium, edited by Mike Chinn, was co-published by the Alchemy Press and Saladorth Productions in 2000. The anthology demonstrates once again that heroic fantasy fits the short story format as well as novel length – Mike Chinn and I were thinking of Robert E Howard, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael …