Bitter Distillations — now available

Bitter Distillations — a collection of disquieting, disorientating and otherwise uncategorizable tales for which poison provides the inspiration — is now for sale, in a limited edition of just 340 copies.

All 18 pieces are newly written and previously unpublished.

The full table of contents is as follows:

A NIGHT AT THE MINISTRY by Damian Murphy
THE BLISSFUL TINCTURES by Jonathan Wood
THE TARTEST OF FLAVOURS by Rose Biggin
THE DEVIL’S SNARE by Timothy J. Jarvis
THE POISON GIRLS by Rosanne Rabinowitz
THE INVISIBLE WORM by Ron Weighell
CHATTERTON, EUSTON, 2018 by Nina Antonia
OUT AT THE SHILLINGATE ISLES by Lisa L. Hannett
THE OTHER PRAGUE by George Berguño
THE JEWELED NECROPOLIS by Sheryl Humphrey
NOT TO BE TAKEN by Kathleen Jennings
THE GARDEN OF DR MONTORIO by Louis Marvick
OF MANDRAKE AND HENBANE by Stephen J. Clark
BEYOND SEEING by Joseph Dawson
I IN THE EYE by Yarrow Paisley
CANNED HEAT by Jason E. Rolfe
WORDS by Alison Littlewood
AN EMBRACE OF POISONOUS INTENT by Carina Bissett

Edited by Mark Beech

My story is called “NOT TO BE TAKEN”, and it is about poison bottles and a deliveryman, birds and flowers, a protagonist who is a collector, and the light that falls through coloured glass.

Bitter Distillations — 5 December

Egaeus Press has announced that

BITTER DISTILLATIONS: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales

will be available to order on
5 December 2020.

It is edited by Mark Beech, and is a limited edition (340 copies), lithographically printed, 320 page hardback with colour endpapers, described as:

A dark and disorientating collection of new and previously unpublished works; a phantastical trip; a treacherous entertainment to cap a treacherous year.

The full table of contents will be as follows:

A NIGHT AT THE MINISTRY by Damian Murphy
THE BLISSFUL TINCTURES by Jonathan Wood
THE TARTEST OF FLAVOURS by Rose Biggin
THE DEVIL’S SNARE by Timothy J. Jarvis
THE POISON GIRLS by Rosanne Rabinowitz
THE INVISIBLE WORM by Ron Weighell
CHATTERTON, EUSTON, 2018 by Nina Antonia
OUT AT THE SHILLINGATE ISLES by Lisa L. Hannett
THE OTHER PRAGUE by George Berguño
THE JEWELED NECROPOLIS by Sheryl Humphrey
NOT TO BE TAKEN by Kathleen Jennings
THE GARDEN OF DR MONTORIO by Louis Marvick
OF MANDRAKE AND HENBANE by Stephen J. Clark
BEYOND SEEING by Joseph Dawson
I IN THE EYE by Yarrow Paisley
CANNED HEAT by Jason E. Rolfe
WORDS by Alison Littlewood
AN EMBRACE OF POISONOUS INTENT by Carina Bissett

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Anthology announcement: Bitter Distillations

I’m very excited to have my short story “Not to be Taken” included in the forthcoming Egaeus Press anthology Bitter Distillations, and in very fine company. The story has been described as “very strange”.

And then I saw this lovely reduction linoprint from Bethan Foulkes (bethanfoulkes on Instagram), and clearly it was meant to be mine.