Parallel Universe Publications will be announcing details of our next
anthology, together with writers' guidelines, in the near future.
Our last anthology was
Kitchen Sink Gothic, which was published last August and featured 17 writers:
Coined in the 1950s, Kitchen Sink described British films, plays and
novels frequently set in the North of England, which showed working
class life in a gritty, no-nonsense, “warts and all” style, sometimes
referred to as social realism. It became popular after the playwright
John Osborne wrote
Look Back In Anger, simultaneously helping to create
the Angry Young Men movement. Films included
Saturday Night and Sunday
Morning,
The Entertainer,
A Taste of Honey,
The L-Shaped Room and
The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. TV dramas included
Coronation
Street and
East Enders. In recent years TV dramas that could rightly be
described as kitchen sink gothic include
Being Human, with its cast of
working class vampires, werewolves and ghosts, and the zombie drama
In
the Flesh, with its northern working class, down to earth setting. In
this anthology you will find stories that cover a wide range of Kitchen
Sink Gothic, from the darkly humorous to the weirdly strange and
occasionally horrific.
Order Direct from us
trade paperback:
amazon.co.uk £8.99
amazon.com $11.99
ebook:
amazon.co.uk £2.99
amazon.com $3.05
Kitchen Sink Gothic includes:
1964 by Franklin Marsh
Derek Edge and the Sun-Spots by Andrew Darlington
Daddy Giggles by Stephen Bacon
Black Sheep by Gary Fry
Jamal Comes Home by Benedict J. Jones
Waiting by Kate Farrell
Lilly Finds a Place to Stay by Charles Black
The Mutant's Cry by David A. Sutton
The Sanitation Solution by Walter Gascoigne
Up and Out of Here by Mark Patrick Lynch
Late Shift by Adrian Cole
The Great Estate by Shaun Avery
Nine Tenths by Jay Eales
Envelopes by Craig Herbertson
Tunnel Vision by Tim Major
Life is Prescious M. J. Wesolowski
Canvey Island Baby by David Turnbull
