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Strange Happenings at Stone Skin Press

Enigmatic Icon here. There’s been a lot of remarkable excavations at the word quarries, and since we keep unearthing new specimens I’ll try to stop in a little more often to keep you all abreast. Here’s what we’ve turned up

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Inside The New Gothic: “The Debt Collector”

The Gothic is the most enduring literary tradition in history but in recent years friendly ghosts and vegetarian vampires threaten its foundations. The New Gothic is a collection of short stories which revisits to the core archetypes of the Gothic,

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Advance copies of Schemers and The New Gothic available at Dragonmeet

We’ve had a very exciting delivery of some advance copies of “Schemers” and “The New Gothic” arrive at the office, just in time for Dragonmeet in London on Saturday. If you’re around, do stop in and say hi and pick

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Schemers

A cruel lover who refashions her prey. A bioengineered warrior on the run. An internet mapping service with a stalker’s eye. A carjacker with a conscience. A Victorian thespian turned super-criminal. A murderer of video game characters. All these and

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The New Gothic

The Gothic is the most enduring literary tradition in history but in recent years friendly ghosts and vegetarian vampires threaten its foundations. The New Gothic is a collection of short stories which revisits to the core archetypes of the Gothic,

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Lion and the Aardvark Toronto Launch Event

With offices in London and writers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and arguably France, Stone Skin Press is a decidedly post-national operation. Yet since Creative Director Robin D. Laws calls Hogtown home, a nice swath of The Lion

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Factors in Arranging The Lion and the Aardvark

Ordering the stories in a fiction anthology is always an exercise in multi-level thinking. The Lion and the Aardvark, the upcoming book of modern fables I am editing for Stone Skin Press, adds some new wrinkles to the task. In

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Meet The New Hero: Pepper

Moments later the apartment had been vacated, and the confusion and shouting abated. Everyone’d had a deep breath, and Operations sat in your armchair as if she’d owned it her whole life. “We have a situation,” she said. “You mentioned.”

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Hear a Story From Shotguns v. Cthulhu

Author Chad Fifer ushers in a new era of the H. P. Podcraft Literary Podcast with this evocative reading of “One Small, Valuable Thing”, his contribution to our Shotguns v. Cthulhu anthology.

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Robin on the G*M*S Podcast

Hear me talk about the process of conceptualizing, commissioning and crowdfunding our first four books on the landmark 50th episode of the G*M*S Podcast. Regarding the post-interview discussion, I hate to ruin a thrilling mental picture but have to say

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