Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • Free Story Download – IN GETHSEMANE

    As promised, I’m offering my story In Gethsemane as a free PDF download to tie in with the paperback launch of The Kingdom of Bones in September. Set in the aftermath of the Great War, it follows the pairing of stage magician Will Goulston and spiritualist Frederick Kelly as they tour the lecture halls of…

  • Curse You, Candy-Coloured Clown

    I had the weirdest dream last night. Dreamt I couldn’t sleep. Woke up knackered.

  • More Plots, More Misadventures

    I’ve now been told that this second volume of my stories has made the ‘best collection’ shortlist for both the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award. That’s in addition to being one of the finalists in the International Horror Guild‘s awards. I reckon that when I put the three nominations together, that’s just…

  • Crusoe – the trailer

    This trailer’s just been posted as part of the new Crusoe page at NBC.com:

  • The Kingdom of Bones

    Here’s an advance look at the paperback cover. Launch date is September 9th, 2008, and it’s available for preorder now, should you be so inclined. More info about it on the Random House website here. To tie in with publication I’ll be putting online a free novella, In Gethsemane, for a limited period. In Gethsemane…

  • Life in Transit

    The first people to find Transit found it by mistake. They got lost in the fog and, literally, stumbled inside. For centuries the only way in and out – the only known way – was on foot. As time went by the feet doing the finding included mule train hoofs, camel hoofs and, allegedly, elephants.…

  • Crusoe Cast

    I said I wouldn’t be leaking any Crusoe insider info on this blog and I’ve pretty much limited myself to passing on what’s already out there; this stuff also appears on NBC’s own website so I reckon I’m safe. Photo shows Anna Walton and Philip Winchester. Friday is played by the brilliant Tongayi Chirisa, whose…

  • Eleventh Hour USA

    I was encouraged to hear that Eleventh Hour Executive Producer Cyrus Voris told the Television Critics Association last week that “We’re trying very hard to ground our show in the real world. There was a CBS press release that described the show as ‘five minutes in the future.’ I don’t even know if it’s even…

  • That’s One Bad Horse

    If you haven’t caught up with it yet, today’s the day to catch all three parts of Joss Whedon’s online musical Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, with Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day. It gets off to a slow start but it’s witty, glorious, and sweet. After tomorrow it’ll be taken down and you’ll…

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps

    I recently went back to John Buchan’s novel The Thirty Nine Steps, the template for all modern on-the-run thrillers from The Fugitive to 24 to the entire Jason Bourne trilogy. The re-reading confirmed my remembered impressions. The book has terrific narrative velocity. It also falls apart to an utterly unmemorable end, and the story doesn’t…