The Christian Science Monitor

Thanks to Donna Bryson for mentioning me in her article for The Christian Science Monitor : After decades of dwarfs and elves, writers of color redefine fantasy.

“For those who think the genre is all faraway galaxies or pyrotechnic wizardry, consider English writer Priya Sharma’s “Rag and Bone,” set in a not-so-distant, poignantly plausible, dystopian Liverpool. Dr. Sharma portrays a brutal city state where it’s a capital offense to agitate for minimum wages, workplace safety, and free health care. In the story included in her recently released first collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts,” Sharma, who is also a family doctor, explores the distress she feels over the widening gap between haves and have-nots. The haves in “Rag and Bone” are buying body parts from the desperate poor.”

You can read the article here.

I was lucky enough to speak to Donna while she was writing this article and she has kindly written about my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts” on her blog too.

 

Donna Bryson’s work has been published by, among others, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Beast, Equal Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The New York Times, Stars and Stripes, VICE, and The Wall Street Journal.

 

 

This is Horror

Without a doubt, one of the highlights of 2018 and it will take a strong work to surpass the quality of this latest Undertow Publications release. Connected not just by themes of human-creature melding, but also by an adherence to clear and poetic writing, deeply affecting emotion, All the Fabulous Beasts deserves to be read far and wide. It’s a book which ought to be on every horror fan’s shelf; not just those who love dark fiction with literary aspirations, but also those who like their horror distinctly hard-hitting and offbeat. Paul Michaels, Reviewer, This is Horror.

My thanks, Paul. Read the full review here.

 

The Toronto Star

Undertow Publications is based in Toronto, Canada and the city’s newspaper, The Toronto Star, have kindly included “All the Fabulous Beasts” in its horror fiction review.

UK author Priya Sharma has been quietly publishing her ornate but ultimately unclassifiable stories in online journals and hard-to-find print anthologies for over a decade. Luckily for those readers who don’t haunt specialty bookstores and the outer reaches of the Internet, Sharma’s stories have been collected into a single volume by Toronto’s own Undertow Publications. The stories in All the Fabulous Beasts draw heavily on the gothic, folk horror, and fairy tale traditions without ever feeling derivative. The lines between the living and the dead, animal and human, even lover and family member are blurred and artfully reconfigured into grotesque shapes by Sharma’s prodigious imagination and sparse but lyrical style. A major new voice in dark fantasy and horror.
The Toronto Star.

 

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The Pan Review

The Pan Review is the blog of Mark Andresen. In Pan Review Of The Arts – No. 7, Mark  includes a Q&A with Steve Rasnic Tem, an opinion piece on women artists in dance music and how they’re disadvantaged by deals between DJ-Producers and music platforms, and a review of “All The Fabulous Beasts”.

My thanks to Mark for this.

 

Black Static Issue 63

1st May 2018 was the official release date of  “All the Fabulous Beasts”.

Andy Cox has kindly included me the lastest issue of Black Static with a review of the collection and an interview, both by Peter Tennant.

“The May-June issue contains new horror fiction by Steven J. Dines (novella), Kristi DeMeester, J.S. Breukelaar, Matt Thompson, and Nicholas Kaufmann. The cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Vincent Sammy, and Richard Wagner. Regular features include Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore, Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker, Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews, including an in-depth interview with Priya Sharma), Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).”

Purchase a copy.