In celebration of Neil Gaiman’s All Hallow’s Read, we’re offering our scariest books at a discount. What is All Hallow’s Read? It’s a new Halloween tradition! On the week of Halloween, you give a scary book to someone. In celebration of the season, we’re offering combo deals featuring Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves, [...]
We are pleased to announce that two members of the FE family, artist Julie Dillon (Sails & Sorcery) and author Catherynne M. Valente (“Proverbs of Hell” in The Stories in Between) have both been nominated for World Fantasy Awards. Ms. Valente has been nominated for her novella, “Silently and Very Fast,” while Ms. Dillon is [...]
In celebration of the fact that Lawrence C. Connolly’s Voices: Tales of Horror is now an official Bram-Stoker-Award-nominated collection (see our previous post), we are extending the I Hear Voices Sale for another month. Through March 15th, everything on the FE site is an extra 10% off—including combo deals such as Visions & Voices, Veins [...]
by K. V. Johansen Magic—not spells and hurled fireballs, but that inspiring combination of wonder, awe, and excitement that drives artistic creation—is, for me, born on the edges of things. Edges mean boundaries and borders, tension and change and flow. In the landscapes of fiction the rise of desert into mountain, the uneasy meeting of [...]
by Richard Lee Byers For me, there are two different kinds of inspiration or perhaps levels of inspiration. We can ask what moves a writer to write at all. We can also ask where he finds the seeds for particular stories. My desire to write came from an early love of stories and a belief [...]
by Jason Sizemore You could say I had my great “awakening” in the summer of 2004. That it coincided with an early mid-life crisis isn’t just a nice bit of dressing to the story, it is an integral lump of dirty coal burning in my cast iron stove. But I’m getting ahead of myself. A [...]
