BULL RUNNING FOR GIRLS now on sale £9.99 + p&p

NB - this book is NOT suitable for children!

A selection of adventure-horror stories for adults set in many locations, from the excitement and danger of bull running in Pamplona, to small town life in Madison County, U.S. Stories set amidst the bustle of Hong Kong, on The Silk Road in China and under a hunter's moon in Bordeaux. Then there are those which are much closer to home. It's about dynamic women, strong women 'who seize the day.' The collection explores innocence and experience. Not all the main protagonists are female, and some of them aren't even alive...

Influences are many but include, Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Hemingway, Orson Welles, Christina Rossetti, Edith Wharton, R. L. Stevenson, Yeats, Shakespeare, Bram Stoker, Boccaccio, Keats, William Blake, Virgil and Crowley.

Wonderful cover by British Fantasy Society award winning artist 2007, Vincent Chong. Introduction by Gary McMahon.

My publisher Steve Upham of Screaming Dreams also has science fiction and fantasy books in his catalogue here:

Screaming Dreams

"There's a great deal to love about Bull Running For Girls, not the least of this being its promise that we've only seen the beginning of a remarkable career.” Laird Barron

"Kid, I like all your stories. Your book is killer and a class act for a first collection. 

Allyson Bird is a rare bird indeed. An original voice in a world of plain vanilla. She rides some dark waves with grace and a heart full of light and shadow. If there's any justice, she's on her way to real recognition." Joe R. Lansdale.

On sale now, but to be formally launched at the British Fantasy Society Convention, September 2008 by Screaming Dreams Press.

UK Orders only

For payment by cheque, please e-mail me at Allyson@nospambirdsnest.me.uk (remove the nospam part!)

 

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Table of Contents for BULL RUNNING FOR GIRLS

  • The Caul Bearer

  • Shadow upon Shadow

  • Bone Grinder

  • The Conical Witch

  • In the Wake of the Dead

  • Hunter's Moon

  • The Sly Boy Bar and Eatery

  • Bull Running

  • The Celestial Dragon

  • The Critic

  • Wings of Night

  • Medium Strange

  • In a Pig's Ear

  • A Poison Tree

  • The Silk Road

  • Blood in Madness Ran

  • Dissolution

  • Pompeii

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King

  • Silence is Golden

  • Deathside

 

 

WINGS OF NIGHT appeared in issue 7 of Hub magazine (May 11th 2007)

THE LAST SUPPER is to be published in the DEAD ENDS anthology by Screaming Dreams Press in 2009.

SHADOW UPON SHADOW  appeared in Black Petals, 2008.

THE OILY DOOR was published in Estronomicon Christmas 2007.

THE DARKEST HOUR appeared in Lighthouse VII, 2007.

Silence is Golden was to appear in Rage Machine in January 2007 but the magazine has been discontinued. I thought it was worth putting up for the cover alone.

Rage Machine 7

Same goes for The Asylum, which should have appeared in Rage Machine in March 2007

Rage Machine 8

Blood in Madness Ran appeared in Hungur magazine April 2006.

The Oily Door was published in Scifantastic magazine December 2005.

 SciFantastic