Excellent! Your reviews and columns are always a pleasure to read, even if I'm not familiar with the movie(s) in question.

The latest issue of Murky Depths contains my story "Honest Harry's Budget Boneyard", a darkly humorous tale about the goings on in the premises of a zombie slave trader. It's also the story that inspired the fantastic cover art by Martin Baines, and he's done a top job of realising the anti-hero in his lair.



It can be ordered here:
http://www.murkydepths.com/

In other writing news, my story "The Plague of Gentlemen" will be appearing in Full Fathom Forty, an anthology celebrating 40 years of the British Fantasy Society, and being released at Fantasycon 2011 in Brighton next weekend. Also, my new pan-esque horror tale "The Wager" has been accepted for publication in Night Terrors II, an anthology to be released around Christmas by Blood Bound books.

That's a beautiful cover!

Hi John. Yes, that's a great title.

Your slot on Steve Lockley's blog was interesting: I can't imagine how gutted you must've been when Hundrumming fell through. I'm very glad you kept the faith.

Thanks, Jim!

The latest, and sadly final Necrotic Tissue horror magazine is now available. It contains my story “The Narcslaag” which was chosen as editor’s pick for issue #14: an unpleasant tale set in the Red Light District of Amsterdam.



There is also new fiction from Fran Friel, Angel McCoy, M.P. Johnson, Robert Essig, Damien Walters Grintalis and many others. And I love Patrick McWhorter’s vicious and feral Easter bunny on the cover.

It’s available direct from http://www.necrotictissue.com/ and the usual places like Amazon.

I’m very sad to see it go, this being my third publication with NT. Cheers to the editor R. Scott McCoy for creating a quality, paying magazine and persevering for as long as he did in such a tough market. Fortunately, his Stygian Publications is going to continue with the occasional release, one of which will be a Best of Necrotic Tissue anthology in which “The Narcslaag” will also feature.

Thanks!

[Living After Midnight]

For the month of April, Living After Midnight is now available for 99 cents, or 71 pence, on Amazon and Smashwords. Links above.

Also, the Severed Press anthology Dead Bait 2 containing my story “Ternskull Point” is now available. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m somewhat humbled by the list of fellow contributors.

It contains stories by Ramsey Campbell, Guy N. Smith, Steve Alten, Tim Curran, Cody Goodfellow, Murphy Edwards, James Robert Smith, Anthony Wedd, Paul Freeman, Raleigh Dougal, James Harris and Michael Hodges.



Here’s the blurb…

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat!  Following on from the abomination that was Dead Bait, Severed Press bring you more horror tales of the deep including a haunted ice fishing trip, viscious mer-monkeys, sickening shark attacks, deranged walruses and many more terrors from beneath the surface.”

The deranged walruses might have been my fault. Hehe.

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Bait-2-Horror-Anthology/dp/0980606543
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Bait-2-Steve-Alten/dp/0980606543
http://www.severedpress.com/index.html

Edited by Dave Wilbanks and Craig Clarke, "Living After Midnight" consists of 6 horror and dark-fantasy stories inspired by hard-rock and heavy-metal bands.

Table of Contents:
Spooky Tooth by Randy Chandler
Iron Maiden by Matthew Fryer
Black Sabbath by Steven L. Shrewsbury
Judas Priest by David T. Wilbanks
Motorhead by Kent Gowran
Slayer by LL Soares

It's available at:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/30498
http://www.amazon.com/Living-After-Midnight-Stories-ebook/dp/B004HIM2QG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1293716446&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-After-Midnight-Heavy-Stories/dp/B004HIM2QG/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293798681&sr=1-6

Grab a bottle of Jack, crank it up to eleven, and enjoy.

I just read a very complimentary review of "The Terror and the Tortoiseshell" in the latest edition of Hub magazine.

http://www.hubfiction.com

A couple of very impressive sales there!
Good work mate.

As John said, I reviewed Mostly Monochrome Stories on my blog. Wonderful collection.
Link here...
http://matthewfryer.com/2010/11/15/mostly-monochrome-stories-by-john-travis/

Hello John.
I recently read "The Faculty of Terror" and "The Catacombs of Fear" and enjoyed them both enormously.
Rather late to the party, I know, but I posted about them at my site if you're interested.
The Hellforge

I saw your name on the OOTG site so thought I'd drop by to say good work!
I love OOTG, and the UK vs US issue should be fantastic.

Impressive sales!

I finally got around to starting your Ghostwriter chapbooks, and demolished "Creature" in one sitting. A really nice old-school monster feel.
I'll hopefully read a few more this weekend.

Quick update with what I've been up to over the last few weeks, for anyone who gives a damn. 

Recent releases:
"The Moonshine Flame Grill" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #44
"The Stoner Bride" in Flesh and Bone: Rise of the Necromancers

Recent acceptances:
"Ternskull Point" for Dead Bait 2

Also, at the Hellforge (Click on the little world icon to the left!) are full reviews of:
Apeshit - Carlton Mellick III
The 6th Black Book of Horror
Null Immortalis - Nemonymous #10

Cheers!

Outstanding!