Yorkshire

Yorkshire-based UK horror and dark fiction writer Alison Littlewood has already produced some very fine horror novels, and this, her third, has been nominated for Best Novel in this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards. The Unquiet House could be considered a brave choice for the Shirley Jackson Awards, because much of it is not only written […]

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One of the many areas that Yorkshire-based independent Tartarus Press does so well is translations of celebrated and lesser-known non-English authors of classic weird, strange, dark, and fantastic tales. Thomas Owen definitely fits this category. The House of Oracles and Other Stories collects a representative sample of short fiction from across the career of this Belgian master […]

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Well who’d a thought it: An almost local tourism-level themed anthology confined to a short stretch of English coastline that turns out to be a surprisingly good collection of modern British horror and dark fiction. Of course, it helps if the stretch of coastline you have to deal with is the Yorkshire coast immortalized by […]

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… and for those of you unfamiliar with Yorkshire dialect (unlike my Bridlingtonian maternal grandparents), that means “Has the working class been written out of literature?” and was composed with the aid of the Chicken Run Yorkshire Translator – for those whose familiarity with Yorkshire goes no further than Chicken Run. What started this particular […]

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I have a problem with books like Conjure House – which is a pity, because it means I’m blind to some of its outstanding merits. I have a problem with Family In Danger narratives in horror. Or with Childhood Friends Reunited stories. I have a problem with books that take the Yorkshire landscape as a […]

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As a half-Yorkist, on my mother’s side, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the venerable Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate will be hosting the first Harrogate History Festival, on October 25th-27th,  2013, at the Old Swan Hotel, under the auspices of Harrogate International Festivals. Special guests at the Festival include Rose Tremain and [...]

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