A SKULL FOR BALD EAGLE AND OTHER WRITINGS by Frances Elizabeth Campbell, ISBN 0-905262-23-9, A5, 100pp, £3:99 (USA $8 in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. A collection of work by an American author and playwright who spent most of her adult life in the UK. Her native Pennsylvania remained the setting for much of her writing, and features prominently in the play which gives this book its title a tense, compelling family drama of love and jealousy, casting the long shadow of ancient myth across the cosy stabilities of mid-century America. Also included is a short story of small-town betrayal, and a selection of the author's evocative poetry.
SILENT TURMOIL by L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims (Haunted Dreams #1), A5, 48pp, £3:25 (USA $6 cash) from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH (e-mail: paulbradshaw@currantbun.com). As Maynard and Sims established the present trend of magazines diversifying into novella chapbooks, it's ironic that they should inaugurate Bradshaw's new "Haunted Dreams" series in the same month that his Alternate Lives is published by Enigmatic Press. Here they present two tales of quiet horror, "Coming Home" and "At the End of the Pier".
RED SPIDER WHITE WEB by Misha, ISBN 1-877655-29-5, A5, 236pp p/b, $12 (r.o.w. $14) from Wordcraft of Oregon, P.O. Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850, USA (e-mail: wordcraft@oregontrail.net). First published in the UK in 1990 by Morrigan, Misha's debut novel went on to be shortlisted for that year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, and to win a 1991 Readercon Award. Described by one critic as 'everything cyberpunk should have been but wasn't', this seminal work has at last been published in the US some would say that Misha's depiction of a bleak disenfranchised techno-society is still years ahead of its time. The Wordcraft edition retains the original foreword by Brian Aldiss and postscript by James Blaylock, with the addition of a brand new introduction by John Shirley.
AFRICA FILM & TV 1999, A5, 200pp p/b, enquire to Africa Film & TV, P.O. Box 6109, Harare, Zimbabwe (e-mail: film@internet.co.zw; http://www.africafilmtv.com). Providing over 3,600 contacts in the African film and TV industry by country from Algeria to Zimbabwe, this yearbook is a must-have for anyone seeking to forge links in the business. Each country's entry has an overview of the domestic industry, as well as a comprehensive listing of everyone involved in film and TV from animation through directors and distributors to hair stylists, riggers, stunt services and wardrobe design.