Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • What’s Entertainment?

    I have to admit that, for entirely positive reasons, I was hoping that NBC’s new zen cop show Life would tank and that its leading man, redheaded Brit Damian Lewis, would have to come home to the UK. Well, I call them positive reasons. But only if you’re prepared to view it in a selfish,…

  • PS Publishing Titles at Half Price

    To mark the launch of its revamped website, multi award-winning indie publisher PS Publishing is offering a 50% discount on all online orders for pre-2007 titles. So that’ll include my short story collection Out of his Mind and the hardcover edition of White Bizango (the paperback sold out some time ago). Both are signed and…

  • The Page 69 Test

    Here’s an intriguing blog in which writers are invited to make some comment about their own work based on a reading of all, or part, of its sixty-ninth page. I don’t know about anyone else, but for years now my browsing method has involved opening any book that catches my attention and reading a paragraph…

  • Teddy Alexander

    Most of what follows is from an afterword that I wrote to accompany a short story titled Modus Operandi; I got the story from a childhood memory, and writing it triggered a few more of them.My childhood home was a terraced house in Monton, just outside Manchester. Each street was a row of brick houses,…

  • Plots and Misadventures

    At the end of this month, Subterranean Press will be publishing my second collection of short stories. The cover’s by Edward Miller, and here’s the advance review we got from Publishers’ Weekly: “Veteran British horror writer Gallagher (The Kingdom of Bones) shows off his versatility in this collection of 11 stories and a review of…

  • Inferno

    Inferno is Ellen Datlow’s first non-theme horror anthology and will be out from Tor in early December. Here’s an early peek and the finalised jacket art. I get a namecheck on the back cover! “Inferno promised twenty original tales of terror, and it wasn’t kidding. Killer stories by Gallagher, Cadigan, Ford and Jeter, make it…

  • Too Much Monkey Business

    There’s been a lot of online coverage about the Cadbury’s drumming gorilla ad… viral activity that felt spontaneous and justified at first but which (or maybe it’s just me) is beginning to feel more than a little manipulative now. After some speculation as to whether it was actually Phil Collins in the gorilla costume (duh?)…

  • Things that Make You Go ‘Whu?’

    Made by the Fleischer studios in 1931 and featuring an early appearance by Betty Boop. In this incarnation she has a deep voice and dogs’ ears. The Bum Bandit? If you can get your head around any of this, you’re doing far better than I am.

  • Publication Day

    Well, today’s the day. I know that a few copies have already snuck out there, but as of now The Kingdom of Bones is official goods. I don’t think I’ve ever had a novel that’s attracted as much advance reaction as this one… and let me tell you, that’s never been for want of trying.…

  • Second Variety (2)

    Right now I can’t do much more than pass along what’s appearing in the trades – here’s an extract from the fullest piece I’ve seen so far, in The Hollywood Reporter. There’s also an expanded version of the Variety coverage now online. Reuters, Hollywood News and Movieweb all carry versions of the story, none of…