Hellblazer: Joyride
by Andy Diggle
from Vertigo
John Constantine is an unconcerned, somewhat amoral occultist with a British working-class background.Hes a hero of sorts, who manages to come out on top through a combination of luck, trickery and genuine magical skill. In this volume, written by fan-favorite Andy Diggle, Constantine discovers that there is a supernatural cause for the violence, crime and drug abuse of South London's Hunger Hill housing estate.Its up to him to bring this cycle of misery and violence to an end at any cost.
Night Visions 8 (Night Visions)
by John Farris
from Dark Harvest
Plots and Misadventures
by Stephen Gallagher
from Subterranean Press
If the truth be told the short story is probably the superior form, because there's no getting away with anything. You get it exactly right or it doesn't work at all. Eleven flights of fancy and one true story... but it can be hard to say where fancy ends and the truth begins. In this, his second collection of short fiction, award-winning author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher delivers his unique take on the weird, the wonderful and the downright strange. These are tales in which the world is very much as we know it, but charged with a sense of the wonders that lie in wait just beneath the surface of our everyday reality. Grisly goings-on in a tattoo parlour... A bereaved girl's poetic revenge... Hunting fairies with pickup truck and cattle prod... Along with The Blackwood Oak, a novella making its first appearance between these covers, the stories have been drawn together from sources as diverse as Weird Tales, Subterranean, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter Chills, and The Dark.
FEAR - The World of Fantasy and Horror - Number 1 - July August 1988: The Prize; Eye of Childhood; The Dandelion Woman; John Carpenter; Splatterpunks Scream; Neil Jordan; Toward Ancient Images; Whim of Iron; Tales of the Busy Auteur; Censorship
Valley of Lights (Telos Classic)
by Stephen Gallagher
from Telos Publishing
A routine call to a sleazy Phoenix hotel throws police sergeant Alex Volchak into a world where the brain-dead check themselves out of hospital, and a stranger can seem to know the most intimate details of his life. Like his feelings for Loretta, the neighbour who's more than a friend, and her daughter Georgina, so much the child he never had. Volchak finds himself on the hunt for a child killer, someone who can apparently switch bodies with ease, and who is playing games with the police. And then Georgina is taken. "The best fusion of crime and horror since Hjortsberg's "Falling Angel" ... ordinary police procedures can't begin to cope with this" Time Out "An excellent thriller ... a cracking pace ... large helpings of deadpan gallows humour ... a genuine ability to create a sense of evil" Glasgow Evening News
FEAR - Fantasy Horror and Science Fiction - Issue 6 - May June 1989: Driving Force; Come on in and Join Us; The Last Flight
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