All Hallows' Read: Solaris can give you the Hallowe'en heebie jeebies

Hallowe'en, All Hallows' Eve, Samhain - whatever festival you're donning the costumes for tonight, Solaris has the perfect terrifying tomes to accompany your spooky celebrations. From haunted houses to horror-filled council estates, make sure your Hallowe'en goes with a bump by picking up one of these chilling titles:

House of Fear
An Anthology of Haunted House Stories

Editor Jonathan Oliver and Solaris bring horror home with a fresh collection of haunted house stories by some of the finest writers working in the horror genre, including Joe R. Lansdale, Sarah Pinborough, Lisa Tuttle, Christopher Priest, Adam L. G. Nevill, Christopher Fowler, Paul Meloy and more.
£7.99 352 pages

Available through Amazon.co.uk

Redlaw

Solaris and New York Times bestselling author James Lovegrove unveils a very different kind of vampire novel – one where they live among us, abhorred, marginalised, despised. The job of policing the ‘Sunless’ falls Captain John Redlaw - London's most feared and respected Sunless Housing and Disclosure Executive officer. But when the vampires start rioting in their ghettoes, and angry humans respond with violence of their own, even Redlaw may not be able to keep the peace.

£7.99 416 pages

Available through Amazon.co.uk

The Concrete Grove

Book One of the Concrete Grove Trilogy

The Concrete Grove is a place where all your nightmares become real. Think of dark urban streets where crime, debt and violence are not the only things to fear. Picture a housing project that is a gateway to somewhere else, a realm where ghosts and monsters stir hungrily in the shadows...

£7.99/$7.99 432 pages

Available through Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com

Regicide

Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town and is determined to find the city. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares?

$7.99/£7.99 384 pages

Available through Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com

Loss of Separation

Commercial pilot Paul Roan has survived a plane crash and cheated death. But terrible dreams of a crippled black airliner screaming through the night, its pitted engines streaked with carbon and blood makes him fear the jet – and its terrible cargo – is coming back for him.

£7.99/$7.99 448 pages

Available through Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com

Flight Z - Now Boarding at Waterstones, Altrincham

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. Flight Z will be ready for boarding at Waterstones, Altrincham, this Saturday from 11am. Full details of your departure itinerary can be found at this website.

Passengers, are advised to buckle-up as the ride could well get bumpy.

Conrad Williams will be signing copies of his brilliant horror novel, Loss of Separation, at Waterstones, Altrincham, this Saturday at 11am.

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Flight Z - Now Boarding at Waterstones, Wigan

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. Flight Z will be ready for boarding at Waterstones, Wigan, this Saturday from 11am. Full details of your departure itinerary can be found at the website.

Passengers, are advised to buckle-up as the ride could well get bumpy.

Which is a very roundabout way of saying that Conrad Williams will be signing copies of his brilliant horror novel, Loss of Separation, at Waterstones, Wigan, this Saturday at 11am.

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Conrad Williams Interviews a-go-go!

Hi all,

Well, you've been seeing a lot of Decay Inevitable and Loss of Separation author Conrad Williams, what with his blogging about writing his most recent book and competition, and his interview with Editor-in-Chief Jon Oliver, but he has been altogether indefatigable recently, and I thought I'd draw your attention to some of his other internet shenanigans recently.

It seems that Graeme Flory of Graeme's Fantasy Book Review (we've already told you about his glowing review of Loss of Separation last week) succeeded in pinning him down for an interview yesterday (you can read it here).

And he also generously consented to giving David McWilliam of the University of Sterling's The Gothic Imagination an interview (and you can read that one here).

So lots of opportunity to hear his thoughts. Go and check 'em out.

David

Recent Reviews: Strahan, Williams and Brown

Let’s not mince words here. Engineering Infinity is one of the best science-fiction collections to hit bookshelves in years, marrying hard sci-fi and big ideas with a whirlwind of talent and innovation. From time travel to world-building to body modification, each story is a universe unto itself, as complete as it is fascinating.
The San Francisco Book Review, on Engineering Infinity

Yet again, I couldn’t stop reading and (yet again) I’m recommending a Conrad Williams book to you all...
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review, on Loss of Separation by Conrad Williams

Powered by imagination and executed with a loving eye for language, ‘Engineman’ is more than worthy of a place on your bookshelf. But that’s not all – this reprint includes the original novel plus eight extra short stories set in the same universe... all of which makes for a great bargain when the quality is as good as this.
Mass Movement Magazine reviews Eric Brown's Engineman

Survivors battling the odds - and cannibals - is as relentless as the sun beating down on its protagonists. ... devoid of Mad Max-esque cliches and features a didn't-see-it-coming ending that is wholly to Brown's credit.
Focus Magazine on Eric Brown's Guardians of the Phoenix

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Conrad Williams on Loss of Sep and COMPETITION!

Wotcher all,

Mr. Conrad Williams, whose remarkable book Loss of Separation is even now being printed, has been on his blog, blogging.

Check it out here.

Scroll back a bit - assuming you don't already regularly read, which I daresay you do - to see posts on draft revisions, chapter breakdowns and his thoughts about the book and the life of a writer, along with little sample snippets from the book, other short bits of prose (including a deeply unsettling description of some kind of air disaster), and links to interviews about his work.

And then read his thrilling announcement of an impending competition, to win a signed copy of Loss and a signed picture of Flight Z. Full details of the comp will go up on release date, the 3rd March.

While you're at it, read Jon Oliver's interview with Conrad here on the Solaris blog.

Whee!

David

Work-In-Progress Blogging

Hey guys,

(Three posts in one day! Will the joy never cease?)

Conrad Williams, author of the excellent Decay Inevitable, has decided to write one of the confounded new "Work in Progress" blogs about his upcoming Solaris book, Loss of Separation.

He'll be keeping us up to date on progress, posting word counts, and generally talking about the book as he writes it.

The blog is here, and the first post is here.

So won't you go and follow him, and give him some love.

David