Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: short stories

  • Good Things Happen While We Sleep

    Woke up this morning to an email from Ellen Datlow telling me that, at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs last night, The Box won the IHG Award (“Outstanding Achievement in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy”) for Best Short Story. How about that? Ellen was kind enough to step up and accept…

  • Happy Halloween

    And since I’m going to be tied up for the next day or so with my daughter’s 21st birthday, let me jump in early with no shame and a reminder that Halloween is also publication day for my second short story collection. Two books out in one year! Haven’t had that happen in a while.…

  • 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…

  • 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…