Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, England's very own 'Prince of Chill', would have been 100 years old in 2019. To celebrate this, fifteen of the finest authors currently working in the supernatural genre have come together to contribute new tales of The Monster Club, Clavering Grange, Temptations Unlimited, Madam Orloff, Vampires, Ghosts and of course Shadmocks. Chetwynd-Hayes himself is represented by one of his classic Francis St. Clare and Frederica Masters stories. Those who are already fans will be sure to enjoy this selection of genuinely creepy stories, all of which are seasoned with a taste of the trademark Chetwynd-Hayes humour.
R. Chetwynd-Hayes (1919-2001) was a prolific novelist and short story writer, including his famed collection, The Monster Club, turned into a feature film in 1981 from Amicus. His seemingly limitless catalogue of short stories have been collected within such titles as The Unbidden, Tales from the Dark Lands and Shudders and Shivers. His novels include The Dark Man, The Awakening and The Curse of the Snake God. As an anthologist Ron was best known for The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, the editorship of which he took over from Robert Aickman, for volumes 9 to 20 between 1973 to 1984. He also edited five volumes of The Armada Monster Book (1975-1981) and several one-off anthologies, being Cornish Tales of Terror, Scottish Tales of Terror, Welsh Tales of Terror, Tales of Terror from Outer Space and Gaslight Tales of Terror. on won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (1988), and the Special Award in 1989 from the British Fantasy Society.
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Stephen Laws is a novelist, born in Newcastle upon Tyne. The author of 11 novels, numerous short stories, (collected in THE MIDNIGHT MAN) columnist, reviewer, film-festival interviewer, pianist and recipient of a number of awards, Stephen Laws recently wrote and starred in the short horror movie THE SECRET.
