Hosted by Ramsey Campbell : Edited by Adèle Hartley

The first in the new Bloody Books horror fiction imprint.

"If there is an international language for horror, this anthology is it...this is one to keep your eyes on in the future." Hellnotes

“We hope the annual "Read by Dawn" collection will establish itself quickly as an international celebration of the best in contemporary horror.” www.thedeepening.com

Read By Dawn is an annual international series of contemporary horror writing from new and established authors.

Internationally acclaimed horror author Ramsey Campbell ("Britain’s most respected living horror writer," Oxford Companion to English Literature) hosts Volume One with an introductory and closing piece, and provides a hugely atmospheric story, A Place of Revelation.

The volume contains 27 stunning new stories from England, Scotland, USA, Australia, Finland, Canada, representing the best in contemporary horror writing.

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Classic Tales of Horror Volume One presents fifteen classic stories by the world's great writers. From the piercing cry of Poe's Tell-Tale Heart to the terrible quiet of Andreyev's Silence, this is horror at its most unforgiving.

The Ghostly Rental - Henry James
Markheim - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Horla - Guy de Maupassant
The Dream Woman - W Wilkie Collins
Confession Found in a Prison - Charles Dickens
Silence - Leonid Andreyev
The Withered Arm - Thomas Hardy
The Mysterious Mansion - Honore de Balzac
  Transformation - Mary Shelley
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
Some Terrible Letters - James Hogg
Lost Face - Jack London
True Relation of the Apparition - Daniel Defoe
The Man and the Snake - Ambrose Bierce
The Blast of the Book - G K Chesterton

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Edited by Adèle Hartley

After the critical success of the first volume of new contemporary international horror fiction in 2006, we are proud to announce the publication of Volume II.

Following another highly competitive international call for entries, editor Adèle Hartley and her team have selected 25 stunning new horror short stories to keep readers awake at night.

"If there is an international language for horror, this anthology is it...this is one to keep your eyes on in the future." Hellnotes

“We hope the annual "Read by Dawn" collection will establish itself quickly as an international celebration of the best in contemporary horror.”  www.thedeepening.com

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Edited by Jonathan Wooding

Classic Tales of Horror Volume Two continues the series of classic horror stories with a chilling new collection:

The Mortal Immortal - Mary Shelley
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook - M R James
The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
William Wilson - E A Poe
The Phantom Coach - Amelia B Edwards
Afterward - Edith Wharton
Schalken the Painter - Sheridan Le Fanu
The Friends of the Friends - Henry James
  The Kit-Bag - Algernon Blackwood
Man-Size in Marble - E Nisbit
The Moonlit Road - Ambrose Bierce
The Judge's House - Bram Stoker
The Picture in the House - H P Lovecraft
The Werewolf - Frederick Marryat
The Body-Snatcher - R L Stevenson

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The terrifying noir thriller from a major new writer, Redress presents a nightmare scenario: a man so tortured by the brutal killing of his own wife that he seeks consolation - redress - in the idea of a new partner who has experienced the same awful grief as himself. But to find that partner, he has to create the conditions for her grief. He has to kill, in the most terrible way. Then he has to groom the bereaved for her future life with him. The problem is, he's never quite satisfied. How many people have to die before he feels the scales have been balanced?

Adèle Hartley is the creator and Director of Scotland's international horror film festival, Dead by Dawn. This is her first novel.

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