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Bull Running For Girls by Allyson Bird
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Adventure meets horror ...
Within this collection there are females who cause trouble,
some who help you out of it and some who just can’t leave it alone.

— Book Description
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Cover artwork (in progress) by Vincent Chong

ISBN : 978-1-906652-01-2
Paperback : 216x138mm : ? pages

£ price to be confirmed

Due to be published September 2008

A selection of adventure/horror stories set in many locations, from the excitement and danger of bull running in Pamplona, to small town life in Madison County, U.S. Stories set amidst the bustle of Hong Kong, on The Silk Road in China and under a Hunter’s moon in Bordeaux. Then there are those which are much closer to home.

Table of contents :

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King
  • Shadow upon Shadow
  • Hunter’s Moon
  • The Bone Grinder
  • The Conical Witch
  • In the Wake of the Dead
  • Bull Running
  • The Caul Bearer
  • The Sly Boy Bar and Eatery                                            
  • The Celestial Dragon
  • The Critic
  • Wings of Night
  • The Silk Road
  • Medium Strange
  • In a Pig’s Ear
  • A Poison Tree
  • Blood in Madness Ran
  • Dissolution
  • Deathside
  • Silence is Golden
  • Pompeii

Extract from The Caul Bearer :

When the tide was out you could walk all the way across Stoupe Beck Sands to Ravenscar; she’d done that often enough, but not today. Many a wreck lay off the Ravenscar headland, hundreds of years of them, sailors and fishermen had been washed up on that shore, and their bodies harvested by the scavengers of the deep. Men in their pale mottled skin with slivers of flesh hanging from them. They were so rotten you could peel out the spine of the fishermen as easily as with fish.

— About The Author
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Allyson Bird lives on the edge of the South Yorkshire moors in England, with her husband and young daughter. Occasionally she is drawn to strange places and people and they are occasionally drawn to her. Her favourite playground, as a child and adult, has been the village graveyard. Once she wondered what would happen if she took one of the green stones from a grave. She has been looking over her shoulder ever since but has never given it back.

Visit her beautiful site (designed by Vincent Chong) at : www.birdsnest.me.uk

About Shadow upon Shadow : When Alice Harwood committed adultery, she expected to pay for it one day but the form and the manner of that payment touched the essence of evil. "A dark tale indeed!" — Ramsey Campbell

On, In the Wake of the Dead : Set in 19th Century Sligo, where magic and ritual have terrible consequences for the occupants of Elsinore House. "A potent brew of historical facts and gruesome imaginings" — Simon Clark

"Ally Bird's writing is as clean and crisp as a scalpel blade. Her stories have a firm sense of place and verisimilitude; it's as if we can see the locations she writes about through the eyes of a resident. It is also both refreshing and essential to see a female author embrace the dark side with such empathy and unflinching bravery." — Gary McMahon

— About The Artist
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Vincent Chong has produced book covers for the likes of Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury and Ramsey Cambell, plus magazine illustrations for InterZone, The 3rd Alternative, Hub and many more. He is also the winner of 2007 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Artist. Visit his website for more info at : www.vincentchong-art.co.uk