23/04/2025
Published by our friends at PS Publishing
SHADOWPLAYS edited by Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn . . .
From an old regional theatre on the English coast to a Hollywood sound stage, an odd audition in London, by way of a sad and lonely hotel that attracts a series of strange residents. And much else too. Here are reflections on the nature of truth, how fiction and childish verse can impact reality, and the dangers inherent in retreating from that reality. Photographs and hauntings. Loss and longing. Just how lucky is it being lucky. Strange revenges and even stranger curses.
These nineteen tales of skewed everyday existence, divorced from the outwardly mundane world, demonstrate that all is not quite how it at first appears. These small, uneasy dramas play out in the shadows, in the twilight, hiding from the rational world.
These stories embrace the Shadows.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction: Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
• Totu Stephen Volk
• If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion? Ray Bradbury
• Damaged but Adorable Rosanne Rabinowitz
• As Far as Sacred Goes Nancy Kilpatrick
• Stigma Paul Kane
• The Charmed Robert Bagnall
• Never to be Told Colleen Anderson & Tom Johnstone
• Ever So Quietly, Ever So Softly Gary McMahon
• I Is for Infestation Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Fire Ghost Gail-Nina Anderson
• Begbrook Tim Jeffreys
• Echoes, Dying Marion Pitman
• Commitment to Truth Bret McCormick
• The Pit KC Grifant
• The Long Drop Upwards Garry Kilworth
• December’s Children John Linwood Grant
• The Rosehill Truth Doctor Wendy Purcell
• He Dances Alone Joanne Anderton
• South Riding Reggie Oliver
