Shadows & Tall Trees

Shadows & Tall Trees 5 is now available on Amazon in the U.S. and U.K. Please consider adding a copy to your next book order. Thank you.

http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Tall-Trees-Michael-Kelly/dp/0981317723/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368878037&sr=1-1&keywords=9780981317724

Issue 5 of Shadows & Tall Trees is now available, featuring fiction from Ray Cluley, Gary Fry, Richard Gavin, Claire Massey, Daniel Mills, Lynda E. Rucker, Karin Tidbeck, and D. P. Watt. And V.H. Leslie contributes an essay “Topography and Entrapment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’”

Peter Straub has declared it “A beautiful and courageous journal.”

Subscriber copies are on their way.

As well, if anyone knows of anyone who has a copy of issue 1 they’d like to sell, please get in touch.

More info is available at the website.

http://www.undertowbooks.com/issues/

Here’s the front cover for issue 5 of Shadows & Tall Trees. Art by Eric Lacombe. Design by John Oakey.

Briefly, here are 2 terrific reviews of my recently re-released first collection, Scratching the Surface. Many thanks to readers Anthony Watson and C. M. Muller for their kind words.

http://anthony-watson.blogspot.ca/2013/04/scratching-surface.html

http://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/surface-redux/

Briefly, I’ve updated the submission page to reflect a new reading period and my needs for non-fiction.

As well, happy to report that Robert Shearman’s story “Bedtime Stories for Yasmin,” was given an Honorable Mention (Short List), in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5. Given that 2 stories from issue 3 will be reprinted in the volume, I’m very pleased. Hopefully some of the other worthy tales will garner some recognition, as well.

Delighted to announce that S. T. Joshi has taken my piece “This Red Night” for the next issue of Weird Fiction Review.

I had a request for PDF’s of issues 3 & 4 from a member of the British Fantasy Society. I obliged. If there are voting members on this list who want the PDF’s, as well, just let me know. I’m told the votes are due end of the month.

For years, Black Static (and its predecessor, The Third Alternative) has been my favourite horror magazine. It was a major impetus to get me to start Shadows & Tall Trees. It’s a journal I hold in the highest regard. So, I’m very pleased to have a story appear in its pages. Issue 33 is now out and features my tale ‘Turn the Page.’ You should subscribe. It’s a terrific magazine.

http://ttapress.com/1604/black-static-33/0/5/

Richard Gavin’s “A Cavern of Redbrick” has been added to the Table of Contents of Shadows & Tall Trees 5. Very happy to have the piece. The issue is now officially full. It’s actually a bit over-full. Look for it in July.

My first collection of stories, Scratching the Surface, originally published in 2007 by a small Welsh press, is now available in a new trade paperback edition. It’ll be a few weeks still before it gets into Ingram’s distribution channel, but I can take orders via PayPal to undertowbooks@gmail.com It’s $17.95. Thanks! Hope you’ll consider grabbing a copy.