There’s already been lot wonderful things said about Eugen Bacon’s illustrated book of micro fiction/poetic fiction, with glorious artwork by Elena Betti. It is with great pleasure and pride that we can announce that Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction is now released world wide.
“IFWG is proud indeed of this chapbook-gem,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director, “as it is experimental, yet clearly an entertaining, insightful read. It is also the first of our new chapbook series line – a glorious start indeed.”
IFWG is very pleased to announce the acquisition of publishing rights to Aaron Dries’ short fiction collection, Cut To Care: A Collection of Little Hurts.
An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones…
The kind old woman who saved a teenager’s life but now finds herself haunted by the weight of a cheated suicide…
And the daughter of a candlestick maker as she tries to survive a painful existence after her father’s execution for making human chandeliers of drunken cowboys…
These stories and more—ranging from supernatural to the frighteningly domestic, Splatterpunk to the weird and cosmic—stain the pages of CUT TO CARE: A COLLECTION OF LITTLE HURTS by Aaron Dries. They serve as a timely reminder of the cost of caring too much. Or not caring enough. Of how we mask cruelties behind kindness. And of our willingness to rip ourselves apart in the hope of satisfying a world that doesn’t always care for you back.
Featuring an exclusive introduction by Mick Garris, creator of MASTERS OF HORROR and director of Stephen King’s THE STAND, this unforgettable collection truly cuts deep.
By day, Australian author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Aaron Dries works within the mental health and homelessness field. By night, he “helps lead a new generation of Splatterpunk for a new dark age” (Brian Keene, author of The Rising). His novels include House of Sighs, its sequel The Sound of His Bones Breaking, Where the Dead Go to Die (with Mark Allan Gunnells), A Place for Sinners, and The Fallen Boys. His short fiction and art have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines domestically and abroad. For more information visit aarondries.com or drop him a line on Twitter @AaronDries
Cut To Care: A Collection of Little Hurts will be released in the first quarter of 2022.
IFWG Publishing is delighted to announce the acquisition of a collection of short fiction by Deborah Sheldon, titled Liminal Spaces – Horror Stories. “This is a wonderful collection of Sheldon’s short fiction,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG, “mixing her recent successful stories in journals, along with original material. We have invested in her short fiction for some time, with the publication of Perfect Little Stitches and Others Stories and Figments and Fragments, and this new title will continue our comprehensive collection of the best of Sheldon’s horror writing career.”
DEBORAH SHELDON is an award-winning author from Melbourne, Australia. She writes short stories, novellas and novels across the darker spectrum of horror, crime and noir. Her award-nominated titles include the novels Body Farm Z, Contrition and Devil Dragon; the novella Thylacines; and collection Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories. She won the Australian Shadows ‘Best Collected Work’ Award for Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, which was also long-listed for a Bram Stoker. As editor of Midnight Echo 14, she won the Australian Shadows ‘Best Edited Work’ Award. Her short fiction has been nominated for various Australian Shadows and Aurealis Awards, and included in ‘best of’ anthologies. Other credits include feature articles, non-fiction books, TV scripts and award-winning medical writing. http://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com
Liminal Spaces – Horror Stories will be released in 2022.
It is with great pleasure that we reveal the front cover art and design of the upcoming reprint, Slights, by Kaaron Warren. Great work by Vince Haig, who has been commissioned to add continuity to IFWG’s catalogue of upcoming books by Warren, including Mistification and Walking the Tree (both released in 2021).
Slights will be released world-wide in ebook format from 15 November 2020, and in print format 8 February 2021.
IFWG Publishing Australia is over the moon to announce the release (2 November 2020) of Venero Armanno’s latest novel, The Crying Forest in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Europe. The novel will be released through our International Imprint in North America through IPG on 1st February 2021.
“We feel privileged to have Armanno’s wonderful novel in our catalogue,” said IFWG’s Managing Director, Gerry Huntman, “as he has an amazing track record internationally with his fiction, including winning the Queensland Premier’s Award. Aside from his credentials, The Crying Forest is an outstanding mix of dark supernatural fiction with crime and thriller elements, and paints a vivid setting in Brisbane and surrounding areas, overlaid with European witchcraft. We view this as one of our flagship titles for 2020/21, and certainly in the dark fiction field.”
Agata Rosso, a once-mighty yet now prematurely aged European witch, believes that the special gifts in a young girl named Lía Munro can restore youth and vitality both to herself and her bedridden husband. She sets a deadly plan in motion to capture and use Lía-but will the girl have enough power to protect herself, plus the father she loves so much?
The Crying Forest is available at all good bricks and mortar and online book stores outside North America, in ebook and print formats. IFWG titles are distributed through Novella in Australia and Gazelle in UK/Europe.
Sample art by commissioned cover artist, Dave Elsey
Christopher Sequeira’s New ‘Parallel Universe’ Dracula Anthology For IFWG Publishing Includes Dacre Stoker, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Steve Rasnic Tem, Nancy Holder, Jim Krueger, And Many More Masters Of Horror!
New ‘Imagine That’ anthology, “DRACULA UNFANGED” edited by Christopher Sequeira, to Feature Dacre Stoker, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Steve Rasnic Tem, Nancy Holder, Jim Krueger, Will Murray, Leslie Klinger, Rafe McGregor, Lee Murray, Jason Franks and several others! With a cover by Dave Elsey (of the BBC Moffat-Gatiss-Claes Bang DRACULA series)!
Following the success of IFWG’s SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WAS NOT (SH&DWN), wherein editor Christopher Sequeira conceived of a set up for tales of Holmes across various multi-versal incarnations where his best friend and biographer was a doctor, but just not Watson (instead being Dr Jekyll, or Doc Holliday, or Dr Nikola, etc., etc) Sequeira now returns with another ‘Imagine That…’ title in what is planned as a series for IFWG. This time readers are asked to Imagine That Dracula had never been a vampire, but was still a horrifying immortal menace to humanity!
Many of the same writers who were in SH&DWN are back, but are joined by some names very well known to fans of the highest calibre in the craft of horror prose. The full line-up of authors is:-
DACRE STOKER AND LEVERETT BUTTS
RAMSEY CAMPBELL
PHILIP CORNELL
JULIE DITRICH
RON FORTIER
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
JASON FRANKS
NANCY HOLDER
JIM KRUEGER
BRAD MENGEL
LEE MURRAY
WILL MURRAY
ALAN PHILIPSON
CHRIS RYALL
ANDREW SALMON
J. SCHERPENHUIZEN
CHRISTOPHER SEQUEIRA
STEVE RASNIC TEM
I. A. WATSON
The book will have an Introduction by famed Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft scholar, LESLIE KLINGER.
The cover will be by Oscar-winner DAVE ELSEY and frontispiece and end-piece interior illustrations will be by VICKY ADAMS.
International publication is planned for late 2021.
