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1 y separately published work icon Exotic Gothic 3 : Strange Visitations Danel P. Olson (editor), Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2009 Z1675067 2009 anthology short story horror
1 y separately published work icon Exotic Gothic 2 : New Tales of Taboo Danel P. Olson (editor), Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2008 Z1813028 2008 anthology short story horror
1 1 y separately published work icon A Natural Body and a Spiritual Body : Some Worcestershire Encounters with the Supernatural J. S. Leatherbarrow , Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2007 Z1927047 2007 selected work short story horror 'A ghostly goat; the strange inmates of a country nursing home; the oddly dressed inhabitants of an unusual village; the vengeful guardian of a family horoscope; the evil possessing a church carving; the horror of a visit to a stately home: these are some of the themes running through A Natural Body and a Spiritual Body, J. S. Leatherbarrow's collection of ghost stories, first published privately in 1983' (www.amazon.com).
1 y separately published work icon Exotic Gothic Danel P. Olson , 2006 Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2007-2009 Z1916884 2006 series - author short story horror thriller Conceived and edited by American academic and gothic author Danel Olson, Exotic Gothic is an anthology series of gothic, horror, thriller, and fantasy stories, novellas, and novel excerpts written by emerging and estabished writers from around the world.

In talking about the fourth book in the series Olsen writes:
In 2006, I floated a concept I created called Exotic Gothic to over seventy publishers around the world. It was an experiment in growing neo-Gothic stories: to keep one or more traditional tropes of the old genre in each new story, but add much that's culturally different, and set them all outside of their original birthlands of the UK, Germany, and France. Since then the series has had four volumes, the first three from Ash-Tree Press of Canada (which with regret was unable to produce the fourth due to unforeseen personal commitments and time constraints), and the current from England's PS Publishing (whose name to carry the series was suggested by many of the writers within this all-new collection). Exotic Gothic 2 was a Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, and Exotic Gothic 3 a Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Award Finalist. Many of the series' harrowing and sensual tales now reappear the following year in Best Of and themed collections (PS Publishing website).
1 y separately published work icon At Ease with the Dead : New Tales of the Supernatural and the Macabre Barbara Roden (editor), Christopher Roden (editor), Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2007 Z1460065 2007 anthology short story fantasy horror

At Ease with the Dead, the fourth anthology of original supernatural and macabre fiction to be published by Ash-Tree Press, is a worthy successor to the previous volumes, Midnight Never Comes, Shadows and Silence, and the World Fantasy and International Horror Guild Award winner Acquainted With The Night. It also offers the largest gathering of new fiction—some thirty stories from the pens of some of the finest writers practising in the genre today (Ash Tree Press website).
1 1 y separately published work icon The Devil of the Marsh and Other Stories H. B. Marriott Watson , James Doig (editor), Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2004 Z1204299 2004 selected work short story
1 4 y separately published work icon 472 Cheyne Walk : Carnacki : The Untold Stories Rick Kennett , A. F. Kidd , England : Ghost Story Society , 1992 Z1052885 1992 selected work short story horror fantasy
1 y separately published work icon The Ash Tree Press Annual Macabre 2001 Jack Adrian (editor), Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2001 9295216 2001 anthology short story

The Ash Tree Press Annual Macabre anthologies collect classic macabre tales: the initial anthology (published 2000) collected pre-1914 works, and this anthology collects works from between the wars (1920s to 1939).
1 y separately published work icon Shadows and Silence Barbara Roden (editor), Christopher Roden (editor), Ashcroft : Ash Tree Press , 2000 Z1926667 2000 anthology short story horror 'The ghost story, in its many guises, continues to thrive, despite being written off many times over the past half-century, perhaps most notably by H. R. Wakefield, one of the masters of the genre, who wrote in 1961: 'I believe ghost story writing to be a dying art.' Wakefield could not have been more wrong; and the rich legacy of such writers in the genre as Wakefield himself, M. R. James, and Robert Aickman, who were all able to hint at horror rather than spell it out, is apparent in the twenty-five stories in Shadows and Silence. There is horror here in abundance; but it is a haunting horror, which clearly demonstrates that the example given has been followed by the present day practitioners whose work appears in this volume' (www.amazon.com).
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