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Blog postWhat an honour! My short story ‘The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams’ will be reprinted in the forthcoming anthology, Shadow Voices: 300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction – A History in Stories, edited by John Connolly. It’s the title story from my 2019 collection of short stories.
Even if my story wasn’t appearing in this volume I would be excited at the publication of this much-needed overview of the Irish tradition of Gothic/supernatural fiction. Kudos to John for taking on th -
Blog postColour me ghoulishy glad to have a story in the rebooted British children’s comic, Monster Fun!
This is their ‘Halloween Spooktacular’, and next year the comic will be returning to the bookshelves (virtual and physical), coming out every two months from April 2022.
I wrote the story for ‘Teddy Scare’ with fiendishly fine artwork (and colouring) by Steve May – plus lettering by Ferre Schutz.
Children’s comics are a tough challenge: a lot of story packed into a couple of -
Blog postFrom 1-3 October I’ll be attending Octocon (virtually), and it will be fun to take part and catch up with friends even if we can’t do it in person yet. Hopefully, 2022 is the year when we start to return to larger gatherings. I’m ready for it!
I’ll be on two panels on Saturday:
Sat 12:00 PM Grand Designs: The Big House and the Small Tombs of Gothic Fiction Sat 4:00 PM Horror on the Page There’s a lot of events going on – workshops, panels, interviews – plus there’s a Discord s -
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Blog postMy story ‘Be Psi-ing you’, an Anderson: PSI Division tale, is in 2000 AD Prog 2250, with art by Lee Carter.
This is a ‘jumping-on’ edition, so it’s a good issue to begin a 2000 AD habit!
And what a fantastic cover by Mick McMahon – I love the variety of styles you get in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
This is my first story to appear in one of the Progs, so I’m delighted. A big thank you to editor Matt Smith, Jim Campbell for the lettering, and all the team at Rebellion. -
Blog postI am somewhat late in announcing that my original short story, ‘Gravedirt Mouth’ is in the latest anthology edited by Stephen Jones: The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror, published by Skyhorse Publishing.
I’m a huge fan of this genre, so it’s an honour to part of this weighty volume… and what company I’m in!
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION – The Topography of Terror
THE WHITE PEOPLE – Arthur Machen
JENNY GREENTEETH – Alison Littlewood
ALL I EVER SEE – Mike Ch -
Blog postI am late to mention that my story, ‘The Light at the Centre’ (which you can read in my collection The Boughs Withered), has been translated into Japanese!
This is the first time one of my stories has been translated, and my thanks goes to editor Akira Okawada for asking for the translation rights for his journal, Night Land Quarterly, and to my lovely translator Ottogiro Machikane for his questions regarding a few phrases.
You can read my story, “闇の芯にまばゆい灯り(Yami-no-shin-ni-ma -
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Blog postIn the midst of the first global lockdown last year an ambitious charity comic book project was spearheaded by Frazer Brown with Red Cabin Comics.
Now you can pre-order the resulting anthology, Tales From the Quarantine, which features 400 Creatives from 60 Countries all in one book.
I’m very pleased to be part of the project. My one-page story, ‘Starstruck’, was drawn by Jenny Odio lettered by Robin Jones and coloured by Timothy C. Brown.
All net profits will be donat -
Blog postMy novella, Psyche – set during the emergence of the Judges system that underpins the 2000 AD universe – has been nominated for a European Science Fiction Society 2021 Achievements Award for Best Written Work of Fiction. I’m both pleased and stunned.
Thanks to everyone who nominated me – it is an honour to be among any list of talented creators, and especially to be counted among my European colleagues.
Thanks to series editor Michael Carroll for his support for my work, editor -
Blog postThanks to Tharg’s chief editor, Matt Smith, for giving me and Michael Carroll the opportunity to ‘showrun’ the 2000 AD Summer Special this year!
We wrote the overall narrative and then worked with three other writers – David Baillie, Liam Johnson, and Karl Stock – to shape the six-story, 48-page Special.
We even had a Zoom call with all the writers to trash through the stories: imagine, 2000 AD writers conferring. It was zarjaz! We also kept everyone up-to-date on all the stag -
Blog postI don’t talk about writing poetry often, and I’m unsure why I feel uncomfortable with the label ‘poet’. There is a gravitas associated with it that doesn’t settle well on my shoulders, despite the fact that my work has been published, and I write poetry regularly.
During the last two years, and especially during our COVID-19 lockdowns, I have been writing a lot more. Prior to the first lockdown I was part of a new poets/writers/artists group in south Galway (organised by local powerho
Titles By Maura McHugh
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
Dec 18, 2010
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