#terry lamsley

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Conference with the Dead by Terry Lamsley (1941 -)

This edition of Conference with the Dead is limited to 175 copies, all of which has been signed by Terry Lamsley and Ramsey Campbell.

Cover illustration by J.K. Potter

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The Best of Cemetery Dance 2, edited by Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2019. Art by Stacy Drum, Phil Parks, and Bernie Wrightson, info: cemeterydance.com.

The Best of Cemetery Dance: Volume Two showcases the very finest short stories from issues 26 to 50 of Cemetery Dance magazine, picking up where the acclaimed and award-winning first “Best of” volume left off! Featuring a virtual “who’s who” of today’s greatest authors of dark fiction, The Best of Cemetery Dance: Volume Two will be one of the most important anthologies of the year. Just a handful of the contributors include Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Michael Marshall Smith, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, Douglas Clegg, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale, Nancy A. Collins, Peter Crowther, Norman Partridge, Ed Gorman, William F. Nolan, F. Paul Wilson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Simon Clark, Richard Christian Matheson, David J. Schow, Stewart O’Nan, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell, and dozens of others! Cemetery Dance magazine has been published for more than thirty years now, and is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award, as well as a nominee for both the British Fantasy Award and the American Horror Award. Don’t miss what’s sure to be one of the most talked about anthologies of the year!

Contents: “Emma Baxter’s Boy” by Ed Gorman “The Power of the Primitive” by Terry Lamsley “Bucket of Blood” by Norman Partridge “Even Beggars Would Ride” by Peter Crowther and James Lovegrove “Second Opinion” by Ray Garton “Vampire King of the Goth Chicks” by Nancy A. Collins “Dry Whiskey” by David B. Silva “If I Should Die Before I Wake” by Gary Raisor “When the Penny Drops” by Jack Ketchum “Vine of the Soul” by Poppy Z. Brite “Fries with That?” by Douglas Clegg “Rainy Weather” by Joe R. Lansdale “Sitting in the Corner, Whimpering Quietly” by Dennis Etchison “Relic” by Richard Matheson “A Convenient Arrangement” by Michael Marshall Smith “Silk and Fire” by William F. Nolan “Mr Hands” by Gary A. Braunbeck “Marsha DeFilippo and Julie Eugley: The Queens Behind the Kings” by Stanley Wiater “The Kingdom of Heaven” by Peter Straub “Night Dive” by F. Paul Wilson “Kindred Souls” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “The Ballyhooly Boy” by Graham Masterton “Runaway” by Christopher Golden “The Gravedigger’s Tale” by Simon Clark “Sticks” by Christa Faust “Bomber’s Moon” by Tim Lebbon “Bedlam” by Richard Christian Matheson “It’s In the Bag” by Thomas F. Monteleone “Martyr and Pesty” by Jonathan Lethem “The Riders” by Bentley Little “Genetically Predisposed” by Elizabeth Engstrom “The Panic Switch” by Jay Bonansinga “Harming Obsession” by Bev Vincent “The Local People” by Phil Rickman “Losing It” by Mark Morris “Voice C” by Tom Piccirilli “Yesterday, Upon the Stair” by Tony Richards “Darkness Closing” by Greg Kishbaugh “When God Opens a Door” by Tim Waggoner “The Goddess of Cruelty” by Thomas Tessier “Things” by Lawrence C. Connolly “Storm Drain” by David J. Schow “The Departed” by Stewart O’Nan “Forgiveness” by J.A. Konrath “Hook House” by Sherry Decker “Like A Lily In A Flood” by Glen Hirshberg “Laid Down” by Ramsey Campbell “I Met Murder On The Way” by Ray Bradbury “A Conversation With Stephen King” by Tony Magistrale “The First Dance” by Norman Partridge “The Glass Floor” by Stephen King

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Night Shade, 2005. A gift from my brother. Effectively eerie stories reminiscent of Ramsey Campbell and, at times, Robert Aickman.

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The Best of Best New Horror Volume 1, edited by Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2020. Cover art by Norman Saunders, info: pspublishing.co.uk.

Contents: Editor’s Foreword — Stephen Jones Introduction: Bettering the Best — Ramsey Campbell No Sharks in the Med [1989] — Brian Lumley The Man Who Drew Cats [1990] — Michael Marshall Smith The Same in any Language 1991] — Ramsey Campbell Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death [1992] — Christopher Fowler Mefisto in Onyx [1993] — Harlan Ellison® The Temptation of Dr. Stein [1994] — Paul J. McAuley Queen of Knives [1995]— Neil Gaiman The Break [1996] — Terry Lamsley Emptiness Spoke Eloquent [1997] — Caitlín R. Kiernan Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff [1998] — Peter Straub Index to the First Ten Years of Best New Horror    I: Index by Contributor    II: Index by Title    III: Contents of Previous Omnibus Editions