Our latest short story collection A Grim God's Revenge: Dark Tales of Fantasy & Horror will be reviewed on BIG Hits Radio UK this Sunday on Trevor Kennedy's regular broadcast between 12 noon and 2 pm.
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There is a detailed review of my collection A Grim God's Revenge in the latest issue of Phantasmagoria magazine by Trevor Kennedy:
THIS
LATEST COLLECTION of 14 stories by David A. Riley is a broad,
wide-ranging selection that branches out into horror, fantasy and
science fiction, with some gritty realism thrown into the mix for good
measure.
As the tagline states, “Dark Tales of
Fantasy & Horror”, there is a bleak, hard edge to the author’s work
overall, many of his tales very much set in the real world, one that
involves murder, vengeance and Satanic cults weaved into the very fabric
of their “It’s grim up North” British setting. Personally, I’ve always
been attracted to this type of “kitchen sink” style of neorealism, in
both literature and film, and if there’s some supernatural horrors
thrown in there too, then all the better.
Quite a few of the tales are set in the author’s regular fictional
locale of Grudge End in the town of Edgebottom, “Lancashire’s shame”, a
part of the world with a very dark history where some nasty stuff indeed
has happened over the decades. These are my favourite types of tales by
Riley and definitely those which I consider to be his strongest. The
Edgebottom-set stories included here include ‘Grudge End Cloggers’ and
the excellent ‘Scrap’.To buy Phantasmagoria follow this link: amazon.co.uk
A Grim God's Revenge: Dark Tales of Fantasy & Horror by David A. Riley is now available in paperback and kindle.
The short story collection includes fourteen dark tales of fantasy and horror ranging from 1971 to 2020.
Dead Ronnie and I was first published in Sanitarium issue 44, 2016
Corpse-Maker was first published in Weird Window issue 2, 1971
The Urn was first published in Whispers issue 1, 1972
Gwargens was first published in Beyond issue 3, 1995
Retribution was first published in Peeping Tom issue 3, 1991
The Bequest was first published in Dark Horizons, 2008
They Pissed on My Sofa was first published in Malicious Deviance, 2011
Old Grudge Ender was first published in The Screaming Book of Horror, 2012
A Girl, a Toad and a Cask was first published in The Unspoken, 2013
Scrap was first published in Dark Visions 1, 2013
Lem was first published in The Eleventh Black Book of Horror, 2015
A Grim God’s Revenge was first published in Mythic issue 4, 2017
Grudge End Cloggers was first published in Scare Me, 2020
Hanuman was first published in Phantasmagoria issue 16, 2020
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| Artwork: Jim Pitts | |
The short story collection includes fourteen dark tales of fantasy and horror ranging from 1971 to 2020.
Dead Ronnie and I was first published in Sanitarium issue 44, 2016
Corpse-Maker was first published in Weird Window issue 2, 1971
The Urn was first published in Whispers issue 1, 1972
Gwargens was first published in Beyond issue 3, 1995
Retribution was first published in Peeping Tom issue 3, 1991
The Bequest was first published in Dark Horizons, 2008
They Pissed on My Sofa was first published in Malicious Deviance, 2011
Old Grudge Ender was first published in The Screaming Book of Horror, 2012
A Girl, a Toad and a Cask was first published in The Unspoken, 2013
Scrap was first published in Dark Visions 1, 2013
Lem was first published in The Eleventh Black Book of Horror, 2015
A Grim God’s Revenge was first published in Mythic issue 4, 2017
Grudge End Cloggers was first published in Scare Me, 2020
Hanuman was first published in Phantasmagoria issue 16, 2020
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| Paperback front, back cover and spine: artwork Jim Pitts |
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| Artwork: Jim Pitts |
Dead Ronnie and I was first published in Sanitarium issue 44, 2016
Corpse-Maker was first published in Weird Window issue 2, 1971
The Urn was first published in Whispers issue 1, 1972
Gwargens was first published in Beyond issue 3, 1995
Retribution was first published in Peeping Tom issue 3, 1991
The Bequest was first published in Dark Horizons, 2008
They Pissed on My Sofa was first published in Malicious Deviance, 2011
Old Grudge Ender was first published in The Screaming Book of Horror, 2012
A Girl, a Toad and a Cask was first published in The Unspoken, 2013
Scrap was first published in Dark Visions 1, 2013
Lem was first published in The Eleventh Black Book of Horror, 2015
A Grim God’s Revenge was first published in Mythic issue 4, 2017
Grudge End Cloggers was first published in Scare Me, 2020
Hanuman was first published in Phantasmagoria issue 16, 2020