The Alchemy Press

11/09/2025

https://janedwards.substack.com/p/september-time?r=28k74j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwY2xjawMvgBtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE3bGNTemVwclpjbVExbkM0AR4FUOkCRYRPIyp0RYYJNKDhBcZ11N_pmyTf30skysWGA8yiLy5Q8sNJgPx8vA_aem_dRkQ_qyzSgenx2yOUB5SsA&triedRedirect=true

And the new titles are easy to read

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.

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

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…

07/01/2025

"This anthology celebrates 25 years of Alchemy Press, and it's a fun read. It has a lot of variety and some great stories! As I most often find with an anthology, there were some hits and misses for me but overall I really enjoyed it. My favourite stories were 'Threadbare' by Jan Edwards and 'Lirpaloof Island' by Garry Kilworth."
-- Happy Goat Horror

For over 25 years The Alchemy Press has published fantasy, science fiction and horror in fiction and non-fiction, and a few poems along the way, from a wealth of wonderful writers such as Sarah Ash, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Steve Rasnic Tem, Storm Constantine, Stan Nichols, Nancy Kilpatrick, Stephen J...

20/12/2024

"I’m on a folk horror binge at the moment, and this novella (Les Vacances by Phil Sloman) is absolutely PERFECT..."

Read more here:
https://happygoathorror.com/2024/12/20/les-vacances-by-phil-sloman/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHSX9dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdkcplnBsmkG6y-rjSjmqClLOVlC0lJoE29PrzIk_lR5rVQKvsNvCbE4qw_aem_RZag5G9X0LSsETce8A1Spw

Monasteries rising and falling. Heretics and stakes and fire. There were rebellions and revolution and tales of abundance and happiness and new beginnings. Within the book there were also lies and …

12/12/2024

Of Sands and Tides by Jan Edwards gets a great review in Phantasmagoria. Link in the comments.

"Of Sands and Tides is a captivating read. I was engaged with
every story and always thinking in the back of my mind how mischievous certain characters could really be." -- Allison Weir