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The Alchemy Press Award-winning independent press: fantasy, horror and science fiction -- run by Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards http://alchemypress.wordpress.com/

10/10/2025

We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!

Bunch Courtney Investigations - get all 5 on your Kindle for just £10.88!
25/09/2025

Bunch Courtney Investigations - get all 5 on your Kindle for just £10.88!

15/07/2025

More on the TikTok scam: I can confirm that I have a TT account. I set it up on my mobile phone and now I've managed to log on using the PC. I am hopelessly confused. What is TikTok for? All I see are aimless / mindless videos and I am unable to find the posts offering proof reading jobs. I need help -- such as links to the relevant posts. How do I post a warning to not interact with these people? Thanks.

To reiterate: do NOT engage with this scam.

15/07/2025

May I remind everyone: do NOT engage with the scammers on TikTok pushing Alchemy Press jobs. I still haven't had an opportunity to tackle this yet.

14/07/2025

TikTok scam update (especially for Megan who emailed me): the email books @ alchemypress . pro has nothing to do with The Alchemy Press. Do not engage with these people.

I have created a TikTok account now but haven't yet learned how it works (it looks a mess, IMO) and wasn't able to find the original post.

The Alchemy Press is currently not looking for new work nor seeking proof readers.

13/07/2025

Beware of a scam on TikTok, looking for proof readers. Do not engage with these people via TikTok.

Published by our friends at PS Publishing
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

29/03/2025
We've are on the preliminary ballot for the Stokers with Shadowplays.
25/01/2025

We've are on the preliminary ballot for the Stokers with Shadowplays.

PS Publishing says: “We’re thrilled to see SHADOWPLAYS edited by Peter Coleborn and Mike Chinn, and THE MAD BUTTERFLY’S BALL edited by Preston Grassmann and Chris Kelso on the Bra…

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