Nominated for a British Fantasy Award 2016: Best Anthology
The Home of Horror
British Fantasy Award winning editor Johnny Mains ferries Salt’s Best series into the dankest recesses of horror with tales written by the UK’s top ghouls.
‘His own face, reflected in the smoked glass of the kitchen cabinet, looked about a hundred years old . . .’ – The Third Time, Helen Grant
‘. . . used his straw to drink up the rest of the redness, which he found more delicious than milkshake . . .’ – Alistair, Mark Samuels
‘It was maybe a little strange to cast an English actor as a serial killer from the backwoods of Kentucky, but everyone knew the Brits were good at playing evil . . .’ – Something Sinister In Sunlight, Lisa Tuttle
‘Other methods included cutting all the legs off first, then finally the head. This could only be attempted with the more ratty dogs . . .’ – Dog, Reece Shearsmith
With stories from: Steven J. Dines, Helen Grant, Christopher Harman, Andrew Hook, Jane Jakeman, Graham Joyce, Stephen Laws, Alison Littlewood, Rebecca Lloyd, Helen Marshall, Gary McMahon, Alison Moore, Rosalie Parker, Sara Pascoe, John Llewellyn Probert, R.B. Russell, Mark Samuels, Priya Sharma, Reece Shearsmith, Lisa Tuttle, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Conrad Williams
‘Johnny Mains is an admirable figure, the Herbert van Thal of our age’
– The Independent
‘Mains’ knowledge of fantastical fiction is enormous’ – Robin Ince
‘Mains is the Minister For Horror’ – Charlie Higson
Award winning editor, author and horror historian. Has written for SFX Magazine, Illustrators Quarterly and The Paperback Fanatic. Project editor to Pan Macmillan’s 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories. Co-editing Dead Funny with multi-award winning comedian Robin Ince. Has written introduction to Stephen King’s 30th Anniversary edition of Thinner. Author of two short story collections and editor of five horror anthologies.
Steven J Dines’ fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Black Static, Not One of Us, Crimewave, Fireside, and Interzone. Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, he now lives south of the border in Salisbury with his wife and son. He is currently seeking a publisher for his first novel and putting together his debut collection of short stories. www.stevenjdines.com
Helen Grant read classics at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, worked in marketing for ten years before beginning a career as an author. She is the author of the novels The Vanishing of Katharine Linden, The Glass Demon, Wish Me Dead and Silent Saturday.
Christopher Harman lives in Preston in the UK and is a librarian. His stories have appeared in various magazines and in the anthologies Acquainted with the Night, Shades of Darkness, Strange Tales, Unfit for Eden, The Ghosts and Scholars Book of Shadows, Rustblind and Silverbright and in the Terror Tales series. The Heaven Tree and Other Stories is a collection of his stories published by Sarob Press.
Andrew Hook is a much published short story writer with a number of works in print. Books to be published in 2015 will include the novel, Church of Wire, a short story collection Human Maps, and – as editor – the anthology, punkPunk! He co-edits the surreal Fur-Lined Ghettos magazine. www.andrew-hook.com.