Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: short stories

  • Travelling in Time

    I’m seeing trailers for the new movie The Time Traveller’s Wife (as we’d spell it in the UK), and they’ve reminded me that a while back I did some thinking around the uses of time travel in fiction and on the screen. And what’s a blog for, if not to share? The most obvious form…

  • Family Ties

    If you happen to be in West London this weekend, you can go and hear my kid sing at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Or you could take the easy way out and go to ellengallagher.co.uk with your speakers on. Now, don’t get ahead of me, but a few years back I wrote a short…

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Thanks to Stephen Volk for a reminder that tomorrow marks the bicentenary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. Doesn’t matter which way you come at it, whether you see him as a giant of American literature or one of the key figures in a beloved genre, Edgar Allan Poe was The Business. As with…

  • F & SF

    No, I’m not in it this month… haven’t written any short fiction for some time, as it happens, but way back when I started The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction was my break-in point. I can’t tell you how proud I was. F & SF was – is – one of the classic genre…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Plots and Misadventures

    Thanks to Ellen Datlow for the heads-up this morning, telling me that my second book of short stories has been nominated in the Fiction Collection category of the IHG Awards. “The International Horror Guild Awards have been presented annually since 1995. Based on public recommendations, the juried awards recognize outstanding achievements in the field of…

  • The BFS Awards

    I’ve just learned that both The Kingdom of Bones and Plots and Misadventures feature in the recommendations list for the British Fantasy Awards, voted by the membership of The British Fantasy Society and announced each year at Fantasycon. It’s not an actual nomination or even a shortlisting, so let’s not get carried away. But it’s…

  • Bob Shaw

    I once asked Bob how he’d managed the switch in technique from short fiction to novels, and his response was a typically wry and self-deprecating one along the lines that he hadn’t… he said that he tackled his novels as if they were short stories, rather like a sprinter who sails up to the hundred-metre…