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Jenn Ashworth, author of 'Cold Light' Jenn Ashworth’s debut A Kind of Intimacy was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. A domestic noir about the consequences of isolation which was narrated by Annie Fairhurst, a morbidly obese woman whose fascination with her friendly neighbour led to a shocking and unexpectedly violent climax.
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02/23/11 |
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Monica S. Kuebler (Burning Effigy Press, Rue Morgue Magazine) By Alan Kelly - In the first of my interviews on publishing, I talk to small-press CEO Monica S. Kuebler about Burning Effigy Press.
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12/31/10 |
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The female authors of the 'Never Again' Anthology, benefitting the Sophie Lancaster Foundation Never Again is an attempt to voice the collective revulsion of writers in the weird fiction genre against political attitudes that stifle compassion and deny our collective human inheritance.
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11/25/10 |
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Angel Coulby and Katie McGrath ('Merlin') The ladies of Camelot, Angel Coulby and Katie McGrath, took some time out of their hectic schedules to talk exclusively about their roles in the British TV series Merlin to FGT staffwriter Alan Kelly.
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10/25/10 |
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Charlaine Harris ('The Sookie Stackhouse Novels', 'True Blood') Interview by Alan Kelly
Charlaine Harris is the bestselling author of The Sookie Stackhouse books. A collection of stories adapted for the small-screen by Six Feet Under's Alan Ball which has since become phenomenally successful, quickly becoming both a critical and a commercial success and probably the best genre show since Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.
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08/07/10 |
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Robin Z. Becker ('BRAINS: A Zombie Memoir') If horror author Robin Z Becker’s sentient zombie Professor Jack Barnes is to be believed, none of us are monsters. We might have cannibalistic urges; our intestines might have burst through the decayed flesh of our undead tummies, we might –quite calculatedly, I hasten to add- form a small collective of like-minded zombie minions with the sole purpose of flaying a few unfortunate strangers. But the message at the worm-riddled heart of this memoir is clear. We are all damaged in one way or another and really only trying to make our way in the big bad world, even if we do have to eat a few people along the way.
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07/21/10 |
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Allyson Bird ('Bull Running For Girls', 'Wine and Rank Poison') Interview by Alan Kelly
Reading Allyson Bird’s exquisite, strange, creepy and heartbreaking collection Bull Running for Girls, I felt the passion and heartache – empathy is the strongest of human bonds and she is a writer of astounding generosity, sharing that with her readers. Allyson, who lives on the edge of the South Yorkshire moors in England, with her husband and young daughter wrote it over the time she lost three female members of her family to old age and illness so had to embark on a journey to find the strong Allyson she once was, to get through it all. She found her to some extent in those written adventures and has now come through and changed in the process. She is drawn to strange places; strange people and occasionally they are drawn to her. Her debut collection, Bull Running for Girls, won best collection in The British Fantasy Society awards, 2009.’ Her new collection Wine and Rank Poison explores themes of expectation, vengeance and thwarted ambition, amongst others. Each of the ten stories is paired up in some way and are connected...
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05/26/10 |
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Dweller (2010) Author: Jeff Strand
Leisure Books
Review by Alan Kelly
Dweller is the first book I’ve read by Jeff Strand & an extremely satisfying introduction it is to this authors work. Try and imagine Clive King’s Stig of the Dump – about a little boy who meets a caveman behind his house - scripted by Daniel Clowes and optioned for adaptation by Lucky McGee (MAY) and your already halfway into the blood-soaked woods of Dweller.
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05/18/10 |
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Let Me Die a Woman (2010) Author: Alan Kelly
Pulp Press
Review by Cathi Unsworth
Pulp Press showcases a talent whose precociousness transcends the boundaries of exploitation fiction. Young Irish writer Alan Kelly’s Let Me Die a Woman – the title itself a homage to Doris Wishman’s 1978 documentary on transgender identity and ‘the third sex’ — is a mash-up of horror, sci-fi, queercore, folk and fairytale, that is possessed of such audacious wit and originality that it seems the author has created a whole new trans-genre of his own.
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04/28/10 |
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A Matter of Blood - Dog-Faced Gods: Book 1 (2010) By Sarah Pinborough
Reviewed by Alan Kelly
I simply love authors who can discover an entertaining, slick, highly-energetic and wickedly clever way of writing about the truth through their work, and Sarah Pinborough’s epic piece of fantastic fiction A Matter of Blood may just be far out there enough to parallel certain facts about the world we live in. Pinborough’s novel arrives like an out-of-control juggernaut at the intersection in the blurred zone between crime and horror...
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04/10/10 |
