Sullom Hill by Christopher Kenworthy (2011), Field by Tom Fletcher (2011) and Remains by G.A. Pickin (2011) are just three of the tales that make up the vast collection of short story chapbooks published by the independent Nightjar press (publisher: Nicholas Royle, designer: John Oakley). With minimalist, artistic book covers exhibiting pictures of desolate and dark landscapes the short stories in this selection immediately possess an air of mystery and intrigue. Each of the three stories I read immediately gripped me as a reader and produced shivers down my spine. Each presented an inti

Join Ramsey Campbell, Conrad Williams, Nicholas Royle, and Tom Fletcher as they each read a deliciously dark tale of the macabre...

Nicholas Royle's (literary critic, theorist and now novelist) debut novella Quilt (2010, Myriad Editions) is a disorienting journey into an unnamed man's pathological experience of mourning after the death of his father. At work in the piece is a subtle and emotive handling of memory, a disruption of linear time, along with much more in the novella's fashioning, most notably the excessive coining of portmanteaus, that sets in motion a conscious interrogation of ...