TALES OF DEVILRY AND DOOM by John B. Ford, ISBN 0-9540877-0-4, A5, 75pp hardback, £15 from Rainfall Books, 28 Churchill Close, Calne, Wilts SN11 8EN. John B. Ford's first hardback collection is a limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copiesfrom new UK hardback publisher Rainfall Books. The cover features artwork by highly acclaimed artist Steve Lines working in the style of Fabian, while the 10 stories and four poems are as dark and forbidding as anything Poe or Lovecraft created.
SECOND SIGHT AND OTHER STORIES by Chico Kidd, A5, 72pp, £4:50 (US £8) from Chico Kidd, 113 Clyfford Road, Ruislip Gardens, Middlesex HA4 6PX (e-mail: chico@nildram.co.uk; http://www.chico.nildram.co.uk). Four brand new short stories introducing Captain Luís Da Silva, a Portuguese sailor who can to see the ghosts of those who've died a violent death. His ability leads him into supernatural adventures involving vampires, soul-eaters and magicians, giving him the change to right wrongs and help old friends. As such, Second Sight signifies a new departure for Kidd in that the stories are fantasy adventures rather than the traditionally Jamesian ghost stories for which the author is well known, even though the stories here do still have lots of ghosts in them!
THE IMPACT OF STEEL by Ken Kirk, ISBN 0-903610-28-0, A5, 36pp, £4 (£5 outside UK) from G. England, 20 Werneth Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire SK14 5NL (e-mail: nhi@clara.net; http://www.nhi.clara.net/kirk.htm). Poems from a lifetime of experiences in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, as the manager of a Sheffield steel company in the 1950s, as a management consuoltant in the 1980s, and as an ex-pat in Cyprus since the 1990s.
THE EVIL EYE by David Price, A5, 101pp p/b, £4 from B.J.M. Press, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. Eleven short horror stories spanning a wide variety of styles and themes, from one of the most highly published UK authors since his arrival on the scene back in 1996.
THE DIVINE PETER by Eric Ratcliffe, ISBN 0-9535113-5-9, A5, 68pp p/b, £3:50 (US $12) from The Four Quarters Press, 7 The Towers, Stevenage, SG1 1HE. The satirical verse of John Walcott (aka 'Peter Pindar') is brought forward from the age of George III, and its relevance rediscovered in the context of modern society's superficialities, cronyism, vapid sexual hedonism and corporate fat cats.
DREAMBERRY WINE September 2001, A4, 16pp, enquire to Mike Don, Dreamberry Wine, 233 Maine Road, Manchester M14 7WG. Comprehensive second-hand SF/F/H catalogue that also combines reviews, letters and publishing news.
