Ash-Tree Press

07/17/2025

Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre Series
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre series, edited by Jack Adrian, was published from 1997 to 2005. Each volume highlighted ‘lost’ stories by well-known (and not so well-known) writers. The volumes for 1997 and 1998 are now out of print, but this is an opportunity to acquire the remainder at the bargain price of US$7.50 each (or take all seven volumes for US45.00 (shipping extra).
CONTENTS:
1999:The House that was Lost by Tom Gallon; Tight and Loose by Nigel Gow: The Man Who Was Tomorrow by Eric Ambrose; Newsreel by W.J. Makin; Time-Piece by Donald Shoubridge; Last Act First by Laurence Meynell.
2000: An Anniversary at The Hare and Billet by E. Nesbit and Oswald Barron; The Children of Pain by Reginald Bacchus and Ranger Gull; The Chowdekar by B. M Croker; ‘Wirh What Measure Ye Mete. .. .’ by Ethel Lina White; The Avenging Phonograph by E. R. Punshon; The Witch-Finder by S. Baring-Gould; The Empty Berth by Rose Macaulay; The Cat by Sax Rohmer; The Island of Ghosts by Julian Hawthorne.
2001: I Will Never Leave You by Marjorie Bowen; The Corner House by Elisabeth Kyle; The Tarleton Dress by F. Tennyson Jesse; A Little Way Ahead by Pamela Frankau; The Pool by Luas Malet; The Badger by Jessie Douglas Kerruish; Man-Eater by Elizabeth Gorell; Fear by S.P.B. Mais; Modern Antique by Milward Kennedy.

2002 Ghosts at The Cornhill 1920–1930: ‘Wanted! Quarmin Tay! By W.H. Adams; The Wade Monument by Violet Jacob; The Wedding by John Sampson; The Moral Op**te by William Bradley; The Black Cat by George Blake; Fladda Light by Hilton Brown; The Jackals by Edward Living; The Trouble at Totton Corner by H.T. Sheringham; The Peacock Sari by L.M. Crump; A Bunch of Balloons by Barbara Euphan Todd; Mrs Murdoch’s Man/A Jester of the King by F.H.Dorset; Nisi Dominus by Cecil Binney; The Portent by John Fisher; Red Hair and Yellow Curtains by Shaugh Courtenay.
2003 Ghosts at The Cornhill 1931–1939: The Garden House by W.M. Letts; The Eyes of the Moor by Joyce Kilbuurn; The House of Desolation by Alan Griff; The Sword by Mary Webb; The Street He Never Found By Elizabeth Horsfall; The Climb by C, Gordon Glover; The Barwick Stone by Winifred Peck; And No Ghost Walks by M.A. Peart; Hallucination by Anthony ffettyplace; The Bell by M.A. Peart; Between Two Walls by Mary Lutyens; Vibrations by Anthony ffettyplace; Children of the Rectory by Kathleen Collison-Morley; Curious Adventure of Mr Bond by Nugent Barker; Can These Things be? by Maud Diver;
2004 The Last ‘Queer Stories from Truth’:The Exchange/A Psychic Mystery Anon; The Damned Spty/’Dusty Desth’/Violet M. Methley; The Escape by George W. Nixon; The Dream Giver by Chris Sewell; Bitter Almonds by A.B. Cox; The Cab in Sloane Square by Mark Napier; Goolang/Michael Leinster’s Picture by Anthony Armstrong; The End of the World by Helen Sutherland; The Spade in the Night by Myfanwy Price; Exeat by Aylmer Vallance; The Last Appointment by Douglas Pike;xit by Mary Ann Abbs; Annyversry by H. Russell Wakefield; The Fisherman/Open Sesame by Frank Batchelor; Strange Company by Michael Hervey; Little Old Lady by Jane C. Butler; The Bright Room by George A. Whiting; Traveller’s Tale by Alan Raymond; Thin Air by Anne King; ‘Pobson’ by Horace Newte; The Sisters by Magdalen King-Hall; The Parson Vanishes/The Man at the Door by Alfred Ridgway; Brambles by H.L.V. Fletcher; Hell, Twice Daily by Rosemary Timperley; Poltergeist by E.A. Williams; The Dagger by Lane Mitchell.
2005 ‘Haven’t I Read That Before?’ (Stories imitating the stories of famous authors): I. W.W. JACOBS: The Toll-House by W.W. Jacobs; Reconstruction by Michael Kent; Blind Man’s Buff by H.R. Wakefield; The Well by W.W. Jacobs; The Well in the Garden by Peter Gladwin; II. Agatha CHRISTIE: Mrs Morrel’s Last Séance by Edgar Jepson; Over the Telephone by A.B. Cox; III.DAPHNE DU MAURIER: The Starlings by William Caine; IV.BARRY PEROWNE: ‘And There’s Your Proof’ by Douglas Newton; The Blind Spot by Barry Perowne; V.ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: The Case of Muelvos y Sagra by David Christie Murray; VI.ANDREW LANG: The House of Strange Stories by Andrew Lang; A Sentence of Death by Katharine Tynan; Mrs Carabay’s Curious Dream by Mary E. Munn; The Man on the Hearse by Janet Deene; VII. KATHARINE TRYAN: The Dream House by Katharine Tynan; The House of his Fathers by A.M. Burrage; The Garden of Fancy by A.M. Burrage; VIII.LAFCADIO HEARN: Munina by Lafcadio Hearn; The Follower by Lady Cynthia Asquith.

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07/15/2025

The Ash-Tree Press Exotic Gothic Anthologies
This series, edited by Danel Olson offers a wide range of stories by modern practitioners of the genre, Volumes 1 & 2 are available in hardback and paperback editions, while volume 3 is available in hardback ony. All volumes are now available at very heavily discounted prices: Hardbacks $12.50 each (or all three for $30.00; Paperbacks $10 each. Shipping is extra. For orders or more information, email [email protected]
Authors:
Volume 1 (Forbidden Tales from Our Gothic World): Nicholas Royle, Thomas Tessier, John Bushore, :ucy Taylor, David Wellington, Terry Dowling, Peter Crowther, Neil Gaiman, Sean Marriwether, William F. Nolan, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ilsa J. Bick, Brian Hodge, Farnoosh Moshiri, Douglas Unger, T. C. Boyle, Nancy A. Collins. James Cortese, Mark Steensland & Rick Hautula, Thomas Ligotti, Kyle Marflin, Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Roden.
Volume 2 (New Tales of Taboo): Dean Francis Edward P. Crandall, Steve Duffy, Genni Gunn, Milorad Pavic, John Whitbourn, George Makanna Clark, Nicholas Royle, Peter Bell, Nancy A. Collins, Christopher Fowler, Taylor Kincaid, Kenneth McKenney, Reggie, Oliver, Steve Rasnic Tem, David Wellington, John Bushore, Elizabeth Massie, Tia V. Travis, Adam Gokaski, Stephen Dedman, Terry Dowling, Robert Hood, Barbara Roden.
Volume 3 (Strange Visitations): Robert Hood, Lucy Taylor, Kaaren Warren, Dean Francis Alfar, Terry Dowling, Steve Duffy, Tunku Halim, Tina Rath, Stephen Volk, Simon Clark, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Isobelle Carmody, Dejanna Dimitrijevic, Paul Finch, Adam L.G. Nevill, Reggie Oliver, Milorad Pavic, Ekaterina Swedia, Zoran Zivcovic, James Cortesae, Brian Evenson, Barbara Roden, Steve Rasnic Tem.

07/13/2025

Ash-Tree Press Paperback Clearance
We’re offering our paperbacks at giveaway prices, as we need to clear stock to create space.
Volumes are priced at US$7.50, plus shipping, or take all five volumes for $35!
To order, or for more information, email [email protected]
Volume details:
VAMPIRES OVERHEAD by Alan Hyder: First published in 1935, Hyder’s novel has now achieved almost mythic status, due mainly to its scarcity. It begins innocently enough with the meeting of two old army comrades outside a London cinema, but the action quickly intensifies as earth is invaded and virtually destroyed by hordes of nightmarish vampires, which leave desolation and destruction in their wake.
In London, three lone survivors manage to flee the wastes of the city and escape to a new life in the countryside. However, the horror of the vampires soon takes a back seat to the difficulties the trio experience as human nature begins to take over and they face terrors which come from much closer to home.

THE COMING OF JONATHAN SMITH by Harry Ludlam: Marcia Scott’s mysterious and violent death leaves many questions unanswered. Who would wish to kill her? What reasons had she to kill herself? What prompted the terrifying nightmares she began having shortly before her death? And what is the significance of the necklace found near her body: a necklace which seems to stretch back to the days of witchcraft and terror which still stain the countryside around the place where Marcia lived—and died?

CHILDREN OF EPIPHANY by Frances Oliver: Melanki, a small village in the Greek islands, is breathtahking, nearly extinct, and full of mysteries—a lonely house near the ravine, abandoned by its inhabitants, who left all their possessions; a madwoman, who responds to the tolling of the church bell by announcing her lunacy to the world; the sinister Hugo, who preys on those receptive to his charms.
No one can really guess the nature of the ever present evil, and fourteen-year-old Tamsin can only watch as her flighty mother and alcoholic stepfather struggle in their vain attempt to pursue and idyllic existence. It is Tamsin who proves sensitive to the manifestations of supernatural evil in Melanki and who, young though she is, sets about confronting these unknown forces.

THE DOOR OF THE UNREAL by Gerald Biss: Originally published in 1919, this is one of the first true werewolf classics, which helped to pave the way for the ‘golden age’ of the genre which flourished in the following two decades. As Stefan Dzoemianowicz note in his Introduction: ‘[It} reminds us of a tie when one of horror’s classic themes had not yet been forced into a rigid mould shaped by genre expectations, and when the plot of a horror tale was limited by nothing more than the imagination of writers like Gerald Biss.

THE GHOST PIRATES BY William Hope Hodgson: Hodgson spent his early years at sea and this experience coloured much of his very best work, which rings with authority and authenticity. As Chico Kidd notes in her Introduction: ‘This is a little masterpiece—a small and almost perfectly formed gem written by an author who, at his best, ‘can make your flesh creep like a master’.

07/10/2025

A reminder that many Ash-Tree Press titles have been published as eBooks. This offers an opportunity to read the collections of A.M. Burrage, H. R. Wakefield, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, and many others at a modest cost. A full list of eBook titles is available. Request a list by emailing [email protected]

05/28/2025

If any Ash-Tree collectors need replacement dust jackets, please act quickly, as we shall be disposing of the remaining stock in the very near future.

05/26/2024

Bargain book of the day: Couching at the Door by D.K. Broster.
Originally published in 1942, this Ash-Tree Press edition of the popular collection was published in 2001.
Mint condition in dust jacket illustrated by Jason van Hollander US$10 (plus shipping).
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03/21/2022

12/14/2021

MRJ and James Gang-related book bargains
The following are all Ash-Tree Press titles. As new, with dust wrappers. All at significant discounts.
Enquiries to [email protected]. Payment by Payal will be requested.
M.R. James: Eton & King's US$15.00
A.F. ('Chico) Kidd: Summoning Knells US$12.50
Ingulphus (Arthur Gray) Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramyre US $12.50
J.S. Le Fanu: Schalken the Painter US $15.00
--- The Haunted Baronet US$15.00
--- Mr Justice Harbottle US$15.00
(All three Le Fanu titles above are available as a set @ US$40.00)
D. K. Broster: Couching at the Door US$12.50
Noel Boston: Yesterday Knocks US$12.50
J. Meade Falkner: The Nebuly Coat US$12.50
J.S. Leatherbarrow: A Natural Body & A Spiritual Body US$12.50
Harry Ludlam: The Coming of Jonathan Smith US$7.50 (paperback)
Roger Pater: Mystic Voices US$10.00

09/09/2020

Warehouse clearnace #6

CITY OF THE SEA
AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
by Jerome K. Jerome
Edited, with an Introduction
by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

JEROME K. JEROME (1859–1927) is chiefly remembered today for his great comic masterpiece Three Men In A Boat (1889), and it will likely come as a surprise to many to learn of his output of weird, macabre, and supernatural stories. These stories demonstrate Jerome's wide-ranging talent, and whilst some of his 'strange' tales are humorous (in particular the Told After Supper stories), others are mystical, and a few are genuinely horrific.
After struggling to establish a writing career, Jerome's major break came when Robert Barr appointed him as editor of The Idler, the magazine whose circulation Jerome described as 'second only to one other English magazine' [The Strand]. Jerome's association with the magazine made him many friends, not least among them Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote of Jerome: 'He was one of the best raconteurs I have ever known . . . an old friend . . . an adventurous soul.'
Jerome, despite being a noted humorist, also had, as Conan Doyle noted, a serious side to his character, and both facets are on display in City of the Sea and Other Ghost Stories. Readers not familiar with Jerome's 'strange' stories will delight in discovering such small masterpieces as 'The New Utopia', 'The Soul of Nicholas Snyders', 'The Dancing Partner', 'The Philosopher's Joke', 'The Passing of the Third Floor Back', 'The Woman of the Saeter', and 'Malvina of Brittany'.
This new Ash-Tree Press edition marks the first occasion on which all of Jerome K. Jerome's 'ghost' stories have been collected in one volume.
CONTENTS:
'Dark Jest: Humour and Horror in the Works of Jerome K. Jerome' by Jessica Amanda Salmonson;
TOLD AFTER SUPPER & OTHER FUNNY BONES:
Introductory; How the Stories Came to be Told; Teddy Biffles' Story—Johnson and Emily, or The Faithful Ghost; Interlude—The Doctor's Story; Mr Coombes's Story—The Haunted Mill, or The Ruined Home; Interlude; My Uncle's Story—The Ghost of the Blue Chamber; A Personal Explanation; My Own Story; The Materialisation of Charles and Mifanway; Dick Dunkerman's Cat; Whibley's Spirit; A Pathetic Story; The Angel and the Author; The Ghost and the Blind Children; The New Utopia;
TALES OF FANTASY AND DREAD:
The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, or The Miser of Zandam; The City of the Sea; The Lesson; The Dancing Partner; The Snake; The Skeleton; The Philosopher's Joke; The Passing of the Third Floor Back; The House of the Two Cedars; The Fiddle that Played of Itself; Clocks; Dreams; Silhouettes; Jerome Recalls a Ride in a Hansom Cab; The Woman of the Saeter; Malvina of Brittany.

Clearance Price: US$12.50 (plus shipping). All enquiries to [email protected]

09/09/2020

ASH-TREE PRESS
WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE #5

THE ASH-TREE J. SHERIDAN LE FANU
Each volume US$15.00
Vol 1: Schalken the Painter (LIMITED STOCK)
'He stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. That is my deliberate verdict, after reading all the supernatural tales I have been able to get hold of. Nobody sets the scene better than he, nobody touches in the effective detail more deftly.'
Thus wrote one master of the supernatural story—M. R. James—about another: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73). James's comments came in the introduction to a volume of forgotten Le Fanu tales, Madam Crowl's Ghost, which James edited, and which saw print exactly fifty years after Le Fanu's death. During that half-century, Le Fanu's popularity had slowly but surely diminished, and in the 1920s he was largely known only as the author of the popular novel Uncle Silas. Thanks to James, his supernatural tales underwent a revival, and modern readers can now appreciate how crucial a role Le Fanu played in the development of the ghost story, liberating it from its Gothic trappings and introducing a more psychological realistic aspect, which would be further developed by twentieth century writers.
Over a period of some thirty-five years, he produced some of the best—and most influential—weird tales ever written. In this series of three volumes, collecting together all of Le Fanu's short supernatural fiction, editor Jim Rockhill has arranged the stories in chronological order, so that the author's growing skills as a storyteller can readily be seen.
Schalken the Painter and Others covers the period between 1838—when Le Fanu's first supernatural tale, 'The Ghost and the Bone-Setter', appeared in the Dublin University Magazine—and 1861, which saw publication of 'Ultor De Lacy'. Even during this period, the author's mastery of the genre can clearly be seen, in such tales as 'The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh', 'The Watcher', 'An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in an Old House in Aungier Street', and the classic 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter', described by M. R. James as 'one of the best of Le Fanu's good things'. This masterpiece of subtle horror is presented in the two versions in which it was published during the author's lifetime, giving readers a chance to decide which variation they prefer. The extensive introduction provides a fascinating look at Le Fanu's family and the circumstances which shaped his life and writings; circumstances which cast an increasingly dark shadow over the author, and which led to the virtual abandonment of his public life a decade and a half before his death.
CONTENTS: Introduction by Jim Rockhill: As On a Darkling Plain: The Life and Supernatural Fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu from 1814–61; The Ghost and the Bone-Setter; The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh; The Drunkard's Dream; Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter; The Quare Gander; Spalatro; The Watcher; The Mysterious Lodger; Ghost Stories of Chapelizod; Schalken the Painter; An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in an Old House in Aungier Street; Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Capercullen; An Afterword Concerning Exclusions; Bibliography.

Vol. 2
THE HAUNTED BARONET
The Haunted Baronet and Others covers the period between 1861 and 1870, when Le Fanu—devastated by the death of his wife Susan three years earlier—retreated to the sanctuary of his home in Dublin, rarely thereafter appearing in public: a way of life which caused him to be dubbed 'The Invisible Prince' by Dublin society. He was by no means a recluse—he remained deeply devoted to his four children and close family friends—but his isolation resulted in a string of long, complex novels and a body of supernatural fiction remarkable in its atmosphere, intensity, and dark implication. Among the tales from these years are such classic ghost stories as 'Squire Toby's Will' and 'Green Tea', as well as the title story, a short novel which is the author's most elaborate exploration of the conjunction between the natural and the spiritual worlds.
CONTENTS: Introduction by Jim Rockhill: 'A Mind Turned In Upon Itself: The Life & Supernatural Fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu from 1861–70; Ghost Stories of the Tiled House; Borrhomeo the Astrologer; An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House; Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling; Squire Toby's Will; Green Tea; The Haunted Baronet; An Afterword Concerning the Text to 'Ghost Stories of the Tiled House'; Bibliography.

Vol. 3:
MR. JUSTICE HARBOTTLE

MR JUSTICE HARBOTTLE AND OTHERS, the third and final volume in Ash-Tree Press's series of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's supernatural fiction, covers the period between 1870 and the author's death in 1873. During these three years Le Fanu, in an effort to support his family, continued the furious writing pace which had begun in 1863, with triple-decker novels and short stories pouring forth from his pen. Amongst the short stories were more than a dozen supernatural tales: some return to Irish folklore for their inspiration, others are more mature re-workings of earlier tales, and one has become one of the most anthologised and influential tales in the genre, the vampire classic 'Carmilla'. In his introduction, Jim Rockhill examines Le Fanu's final years and the supernatural work he produced during them; and also reveals the truth behind the writer's death, which according to previous accounts was sufficiently dramatic to have come from one of his own stories.
The first two volumes of the series, SCHALKEN THE PAINTER and Others and THE HAUNTED BARONET and Others are currently still available.
CONTENTS: Introduction by Jim Rockhill: 'A Dream of the Shadow of Smoke: The Final Years & Supernatural Fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1870–73; The Child that Went with the Fairies; The White Cat of Drumgunniol; Stories of Lough Guir; The Vision of Tom Chuff; Madam Crowl's Ghost; The Dead Sexton; Carmilla; Mr Justice Harbottle; The Familiar; Sir Dominick's Bargain; Laura Silver Bell; Dickon the Devil; Bibliography; Publication History of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Supernatural Fiction Published during His Lifetime; Acknowledgements.

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06/11/2020

WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE #4
ANTHOLOGIES FROM ASH-TREE

SHADOWS AND SILENCE
The Ghost Story, in its many guises, continues to thrive, despite being written off many times over the past half-century, perhaps most notably by H. R. Wakefield, one of the masters of the genre, who wrote in 1961: 'I believe ghost story writing to be a dying art.' Wakefield could not have been more wrong; and the rich legacy of such writers in the genre as Wakefield himself, M. R. James, and Robert Aickman, who were all able to hint at horror rather than spell it out, is apparent in the twenty-five stories in Shadows and Silence. There is horror here in abundance, which clearly demonstrates that the example given has been followed by the present day practitioners whose work appears in this volume.
Of the seventeen stories which appeared in the first Ash-Tree Press anthology, Midnight Never Comes, in 1997, no less than fifteen received honourable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. That success has provided added impetus to ensure that the stories in this volume live up to the quality of their predecessors. The twenty-five stories in Shadows and Silence encompass an even wider range of themes, showcasing the versatility of the supernatural story. The ghost story is alive, well, and ready to face the challenges of the future.
CONTENTS: 'The Rag-and-Bone Men' by Steve Duffy; 'The Last of Mr Benjimen' by Rick Kennett; 'Mr Justice Delaney' by John Morrow; 'The Fairhaven Phantom Train' by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; 'The Man in the Blue Mercedes' by Frances Oliver; 'The Graveyard' by Donald Tumasonis; 'The Slow Fall of Dust in a Quiet Place' by Steve Rasnic Tem; 'Tourist Trap' by Barbara Roden; 'The Witness Tree' by Steve Burt; 'Frosted Glass' by Jane Jakeman; 'Spider' by John Pelan; 'The Counsels of Night' by Ron Weighell; 'No Strings' by Ramsey Campbell; 'The Mummers' by Paul Finch; 'Which, Being Translated, Means' by Cooper Renner; '"Excuse Me . . ."' by John Whitbourn; 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' by Michael Chislett; 'The Other Side of the Bay' by Nick Di Martino; 'Wolferton Hall' by James Doig; 'Littler' by Hugh B. Cave; 'One Over the Twelve' by Clive E. Ward; 'The Chapel of Unrest' by Steven Volk; 'The Last Reel' by David G. Rowlands; 'The Spirit Mirror' by Keris McDonald; 'Mr Dark's Carnival' by Glen Hirshberg.

Hardback, Originally published at US$45. Clearance Price US$12.50

ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, the third anthology of Original Supernatural Fiction to be published by Ash-Tree Press, is a worthy successor to Midnight Never Comes and Shadows and Silence. It's also the larges of the three volumes—27 stories and 384 pages—and, in addition to our regular hardback limited edition, we've also produced a simultaneous trade paperback edition—so there's no reason why you can't buy a copy for a friend, too!

CONTENTS:
Rope Trick by Mark P. Henderson
A Pace of Change by Don Tumasonis
Beneath the Sun by Simon Bestwick
The Old Tailor and the Gaunt Man by Brian Showers
Vado Mori by Joseph A. Ezzo
Breaking up by Ramsey Campbell
Northwest Passage by Barbara Roden NOMINATED FOR STOKER AWARD 2004 (LONG FICTION). NOMINATED FOR IHG AWARD. NOMINATED FOR WORLD FANTASY AWARD
Out On a Limb by Gary McMahon
Jenny Gray's House by Edward Pearce
The Devil's Number by Reggie Oliver
Visits by Melanie Tem
Weird Furka by Adam Golaski
The Weeping Manse by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Salvage by Chico Kidd
Beyond the River by Joel Lane
Only Sleeping by Peter Bell
You Should Have to Live with Yourself by Cathy Sahu
The Sunken Garden by John Whitbourn
Survivors by Edward P. Crandall
Inside William James by Steve Rasnic Tem
Someone Across the Way by Steve Duffy
The Cross Talk by Rick Kennett
The Belfries by Paul Finch
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by John Pelan
Three Fingers, One Thumb by Stephen Volk
Safety Clowns by Glen Hirshberg
The Listener by Christopher Harman

Paperback only: Original Publication Price US$35.00. Clearance Price US$12.50

AT EASE WITH THE DEAD, the fourth anthology of original supernatural and macabre fiction to be published by Ash-Tree Press, is a worthy successor to the previous volumes, Midnight Never Comes, Shadows and Silence, and the World Fantasy and International Horror Guild Award winner Acquainted With The Night. It also offers the largest gathering of new fiction—some thirty stories from the pens of some of the finest writers practising in the genre today.

CONTENTS:
The Church on the Island by Simon Kurt Unsworth
The Brook by John Llewellyn Probert
Mr Poo-Poo by Reggie Oliver
Dhost by Melanie Tem
Special Perceptions by Richard Harland
My Grandfather's Ghosts by Gary McMahon
We, The Remedials by John Travis
The Light of the World by Peter Bell
When Sorrows Come by Simon Strantzas
The White Sea Company by Mark Valentine
The Music Box by Mark Patrick Lynch
Visiting Hours by Kealan Patrick Burke
Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed by Steve Duffy
Threads by James Doig
The Heights by Matthew Holness
Sighted by Iain Rowan
The Calvary at Banská Bystrica by Helen Grant
Death Knock by Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis
Blue Train by Joel Lane
A Pillar of the Church by John Whitbourn
The Admiral's House by Marc Lecard
Recession by Robert Morrish
'And So Will I Remember You. . .' by Chet Williamson
Dr Upex and the Great God Ing by Antony Oldknow
The Tank by Paul Finch
The Charlie Club by J. J. Beazley
The Swing by Don Tumasonis
A Small Cold Hand by Simon Bestwick
Hell Hath No Fury by Keris McDonald
The Palace by Barbara Roden
Biographical / Story Notes.

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Hardback US$48.50, Clearance Price US$12.50
Paperback US$29.00. Clearance Price US$10.00

SHADES OF DARKNESS is the fifth anthology of original supernatural fiction to be published by Ash-Tree Press and edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden. This latest volume presents the chilling work of twenty-six modern practitioners of the supernatural genre.
CONTENTS:
'The Oram County Whoosit' by Steve Duffy
'Cold Reading' by Simon Bestwick
'Smugglers' by Guenther Primig
'The Old Traditions' by Paul Finch
'The Devil's Funeral' by Reggie Oliver
'Leaves Brown' by Ian Rogers
'In Old Oaks' by Keris McDonald
'Thyxxolqu' by Mark Samuels
'Flames' by Lawrence C. Connolly
'Soft Little Fingers' by David A. Riley
'The King of Majorca' by Frances Oliver
'Monster' by Melanie Tem
'The Children' by Christopher Harman
'Cargo' by E. Michael Lewis
'A Bit of a Giggle' by Harvey Peter Sucksmith
'Archangel' by Peter Bell
'Brokenback Isle' by Gary McMahon
'Old Man's Pantry' by Simon Kurt Unsworth
'A Mouth to Feed' by Joel Lane
'In Vitro' by Michael Cox
'Out of Season' by Marion Pitman
'Under the Overpass' by Simon Strantzas
'The Apartment of Bryony Hartwood' by Mark Patrick Lynch
'Grauer Hans' by Helen Grant
'Back Roads' by Barbara Roden
'Esmeralda' by Glen Hirshberg

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Paperback US$29.00. Clearance Price US$10.00

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06/02/2020

WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE #3
BOOKS BY FRANCES OLIVER

Introducing Frances Oliver for those who haven't encountered her wonderful fiction. Frances was born in Vienna and brought up, educated, and married in the United States. Subsequntly she lived in a number of countries with her husband, who wrote travel books and shared her passion for mountains and mountaineering. Following his death, Frances moved to Cornwall. These three Ash-Tree titles are a fine introduction to her work:
DANCING ON AIR (Hardback): These ten stories were written over a period of four decades and all of them concern hauntings.
Contents: Introduction; The Visitors' Book; Cyprian's Room; The Black Mare Midnight; Prester John; The Monster Drawing; A Walk in the Forest; The Man in the Blue Mercedes; The Dinosaurs; The Married Man; Dancing on Air.
Original Price US44.00; Sale Price US$10

THE GHOSTS OF SUMMER (Hardback):
Revisiting the past can be difficult, particularly when there is reason to wonder how much of it really happened. When Stephanie retunrs to Himmelwood, the site of childhood summer camps, more than memories sre awoken. What really happened? What did she actually see? Will she ever make peace with The Ghosts of Summer? Complementing the novel is the short story 'The Case of Dr Tisch', a typically Oliver-twisted tale of an idealistic psychiatrist and his ambitiou, impatent wife.
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CHILDREN OF EPIPHANY (Paperback): There is a superstition about children born around the New Year: how they had no souls, so they had to steal the souls of others.
Melaniki, a small village in the Greek islands, is breathtaking, nearly extinct, and full of mysteries. No one can guess the nature of the ever-present evil, and 14-year old Tamsin can only watch as her flighty mother and alcoholic asep-father struggle in their vain attempt to pursue an idyllic existence. It is Tamsin who proves sensitive to the manifestations of supernatural evil in Melaniki wn who, young though she is, sets about confronting these unmknown forces.
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