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About Maura McHugh
She co-wrote the comic book Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland with Kim Newman, and is working on a variety of comic book stories in the 2000 AD universe. She's the author of the fairy tale collection, Twisted Fairy Tales, and the collection of world myths, Twisted Myths. Her collection of original short stories, The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Drams), is published by NewCon Press and was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
Her non-fiction exploration of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction. She's also a published poet, a produced playwright, and a screenwriter, and often appears on Irish radio discussing pop culture.
She loves exploring the woods: the darker, the wilder, the better.
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Blog postOne of the few upsides to the pandemic that’s keeping us in our homes is that it’s also enabling me to attend conventions which have transformed into virtual events.
Thanks to the miracle of high-speed fibre broadband (for which I am daily grateful) I can beam into festivals around the world and take part on panels with a wide variety of people, many of whom I might not ordinarily meet.
I’m terribly pleased to be a programme participant at the online iteration of Boskone 20211 week ago Read more -
Blog postThe nominees for the ICN Awards 2020 have been announced, and it’s a terrific testament to the variety of content being published by Irish comic book creators in small and big presses at home and abroad.
Voting is now open across all categories until midnight on 31 January 2020.
I’m honoured to be represented in the Best Irish Writer (Major Publisher) category for my story ‘The Thief of Senses’ in the Misty & Scream Special 2020 and in the Best Irish Writer (Non-Fiction) f2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postI took the above picture last night as the sun set over the fishing village of Kinvara, with my back to the cold medieval stonework of Dunguaire Castle. The frigid Atlantic wind numbed my face and fingers as I listened to the crash of the fulminating waves. It was a fitting setting to watch the last day of 2020 burn down into darkness.
This morning dawned bright and frosty; a promise of fresh beginnings. It’s easy to wait and pin our desire for positive life change on the calendar fli3 weeks ago Read more -
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Blog postWelcome to the web site for Maura McHugh – an author of horror and dark fantasy fiction living in the West of Ireland.
Maura writes across a variety of media, including prose, comic books, plays, and screenplays. She has written two collections: Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths, both published in the USA, and the non-fiction Midnight Movie Monograph of the iconic film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (which was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postThe Sinister Horror Company has created a creepy Advent Calendar for the end of 2020, with a new horror flash story by a different author for every day in December.
My story ‘Pay the Toll’ is the 29th of December entry.
You can read it on the SHC’s web site, but here’s the opening section:
The day after Christine broke up with Dean she bought knives. A seven-piece stainless steel set, on special in Argos for Christmas. Their silicon handles ranged in rainbow hues from4 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postA light!
You have stumbled through this boggy undergrowth, pushing through the twilight mist, for what feels like an age. How did you begin this journey? The damp greyness leeches all memories. Your entire focus has been the mechanical lifting and placing of weary feet onto uncertain ground, the only sound your laboured breath.
That glimmer after the trees quickens your heart. Answers. Warmth. Company!
You slog forward, renewed.
Hours later the gap remains. The2 months ago Read more -
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Blog postThought Bubble Comic Art Festival is the UK’s biggest annual event focused exclusively on comic books, and it’s the one event most comic people professionals make a concerted effort to attend. I’ve really enjoyed every Thought Bubble I’ve been at, and I had already purchased my ticket for this year’s event… and then the pandemic swept across the globe.
This year Thought Bubble is entirely free and virtual, which isn’t the same, but is a different kind of exciting. You can watch their2 months ago Read more -
Blog postWhen I discovered the nominations for the British Fantasy Society’s British Fantasy Awards 2020 had been announced I clicked through to the web site to see which of my friends had been nominated… and much to my astonishment I saw my name!
I’m truly honoured and delighted to be on the shortlist for Best Collection for my book, The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams), published by NewCon Press. And to be listed alongside the hugely talented Paul Tremblay, Georgina Bruce, Aliett3 months ago Read more -
Blog postOctocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, has been an important annual celebration of sf/fantasy/horror across all media for thirty years, and this weekend the event will be going virtual, so anyone can attend!
The Guest of Honour is Michael Carroll – and about time too! Mike is one of Ireland’s most talented genre writers, as well as being an editor, talented graphic designer, comic book historian, and indefatigable punster. Over the past decade he has established his r4 months ago Read more -
Blog postYesterday was publication day for the Misty & Scream! Special 2020. If you’re interested in getting a copy all the details about this 48-page horror comic special is available here.
My story was created for the Misty section of the comic, and is an original story called ‘Thief of Senses’, with art and colouring by Robin Henley and lettering by Annie Parkhouse. The cover is by Andrea Bulgarelli.
Last week Rebellion’s Mike Molcher herded together as many of the authors of th4 months ago Read more
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It's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, a wedding ring or a pair of red shoes. Curses come in all shapes and sizes, and they can happen to anyone, not just those of us with unpopular stepparents...
Here you'll find unique twists on curses, from fairy tale classics to brand-new hexes of the modern world - expect new monsters and mythologies as well as twists on well-loved fables. Stories to shock and stories of warning, stories of monsters and stories of magic.
TWENTY TIMELESS FOLKTALES, NEW AND OLD
NEIL GAIMAN
JANE YOLEN
KAREN JOY FOWLER
M.R. CAREY
CHRISTINA HENRY
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
TIM LEBBON
MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
JEN WILLIAMS
CATRIONA WARD
JAMES BROGDEN
MAURA McHUGH
ANGELA SLATTER
LILLITH SAINTCROW
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
ALISON LITTLEWOOD
MARGO LANAGAN
When the man called the Witchfinder becomes an agent of the Queen, he is led from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly, through the American West, and to explore the mysteries of Unland! Throughout his adventures, he'll face occult conspiracies, rampaging monsters, and London's most infamous secret society: the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra!
This first omnibus edition collects Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder volumes 1-3, complete with extensive sketchbook section.
2044: Phoebe Wise has always known she was different; she joined the Judge programme to get away from all that. But the Department has other ideas. Radical, outrageous ideas.
2141: Pam Reed is the best pre-cog Psi-Div has, rushed to a crumbling block in one of the oldest sectors of the Meg to dig through files thought long-lost.
And something has reached across the decades to bring the two Judges together, and protect a future that almost never was.
1. Introduction – Ian Whates
2. Sarah Pinborough – Do You See?
3. Liz Williams – Indicating the Awakening of Persons Buried Alive
4. Marie O’Regan – The Cradle in the Corner
5. Kari Sperring – Seaborne
6. Tanith Lee – Underfog (The Wreckers)
7. Kelley Armstrong – Young Bloods
8. Alison Littlewood – On the Grey Road
9. Molly Brown – Living with the Dead
10. Donna Scott – The Grimoire
11. Susan Sinclair – Lifeline
12. Lisa Tuttle – Paul’s Mother
13. Emma Coleman – Home
14. Maura McHugh – Valerie
15. Laura Mauro – Obsidian
Drawn to mysteries, mystics, devils and nightmares, Joe is a Martian, made of other-era junk from Tom Waits’ basement and outtakes from recordings. Discovered HPL at 15, fell hard. Discovered Robert W. Chambers soon after, fell harder! When he began to write he played in fields he loved. He still does. He's also influenced by NOIR fiction, Marvel Comics, poetry, Weird Fiction (Michael Cisco, Jean Ray, Ligotti), and music. Pulver doesn't shy away from his influences, but they serve as guideposts. His work remains uniquely his own. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. has released 4 acclaimed mixed-genre collections His fiction and poetry has received over two dozen Honorable Mentions from Ellen Datlow, and appeared in such anthologies as Autumn Cthulhu, The Children of Old Leech, The Year’s Best Horror, The Book of Cthulhu, A Mountain Walked, and Best Weird Fiction of the Year. He's been praised by Thomas Ligotti, Laird Barron, Michael Cisco, Livia Llewellyn, Jeffery Thomas, and many others.
Have you seen the Yellow Sign?
Cassilda’s Song is a collection of weird fiction and horror stories based on the King in Yellow Mythos created by Robert W. Chambers—entirely authored by women. There are no pretenders here. The Daughters of the Yellow Sign, each a titan of unmasked fire in their own right, have parted the curtains. From Hali’s deeps and Carcosa’s gloomy balconies and Styx-black towers, come their lamentations and rage and the consequences of intrigues and follies born in Oblivion. Run into their embrace. Their carriages wait to take you from shadowed rooms and cobblestones to The Place Where the Black Stars Hang.
The 1895 release of Chambers’ best-remembered work of weird fiction was salted with nihilism and ennui, and ripe with derangement, haunting beauty, and eerie torments. Poe’s influence was present in the core tales and one could easily argue Chambers may have been influenced by the French Decadents and the disquieting transfigurations of the Symbolists. All this and more can be said of the works collected in this anthology. Carcosa, accursed and ancient, and cloud-misted Lake of Hali are here. The Hyades sing and the cloud waves break in these tales. The authority of Bierce’s cosmic horror is here. The talismantic Yellow Sign, and the titular ‘hidden’ King, and The Imperial Dynasty of America, will influence and alter you, as they have the accounts by these writers. Cassilda and other unreliable narrators, government-sponsored Lethal Chambers, and the many mysteries of the mythical Play, are boldly represented in these tributes to Chambers.
The contents of this anthology include:
- "Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic" by Damien Angelica Walters
- "She Will Be Raised a Queen" by E. Catherine Tobler
- "Yella" by Nicole Cushing
- "Yellow Bird" by Lynda E. Rucker
- "Exposure" by Helen Marshall
- "Just Beyond Her Dreaming" by Mercedes M. Yardley
- "In the Quad of Project 327" by Chesya Burke
- "Stones, Maybe" by Ursula Pflug
- "Les Fleurs Du Mal" by Allyson Bird
- "While The Black Stars Burn" by Lucy A. Snyder
- "Old Tsah-Hov" by Anya Martin
- "The Neurastheniac" by Selena Chambers
- "Dancing The Mask" by Ann K. Schwader
- "Family" by Maura McHugh
- "Pro Patria!" by Nadia Bulkin
- "Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning" by E. Catherine Tobler & Damien Angelica Walters
- "Grave-Worms" by Molly Tanzer
- "Strange is the Night" by S.P. Miskowski
Table of Contents:
"Intrduction" by Erin Underwood
"Pair of Ugly Stepsisters, Three of a Kind" by Garth Nix, based upon multiple Grimm fairy tales, including "Little Brother and Little Sister," "Rapunzel," "Little Red-Cap," and "Cinderella"
"The Iron Man" by Max Gladstone, based upon "Iron John"
"Zel and Grets" by Maura McHugh, based upon "Hansel & Gretel"
"For Want of a Nail" by Sandra McDonald & Stephen D. Covey, based upon "The Nail"
"The Shroud" by Dan Wells, based upon "The Shroud"
"Long-Term Employment" by Mike Resnick, based upon "Death's Messengers"
"Swan Dive" by Nancy Holder, based upon "The Six Swans"
"The White Rat" by Dana Cameron, based upon "The White Snake"
"Origins" by Carlos Hernandez, based upon "The Star-Talers"
"Angie Taylor in: Peril Beneath the Earth's Crust" by John Langan, based upon "The Brave Little Tailor"
"The Three Snake-Leaves" by Jeffrey Ford, based upon "The Three Snake-Leaves"
"The Madman's Ungrateful Child" by Peadar Ó Guillín, based upon "The Bremen Town-Musicians"
"Stories of the Trees, Stories of the Birds, Stories of the Bones" by Kat Howard, based upon "The Juniper Tree"
"Be Still, and Listen" by Seanan McGuire, based upon "Little Briar-Rose"
Eustace Fargo’s new justice system has been in effect for eight years. The old days of waiting times and backlogs are over: judgement is quick, and sentencing is instantaneous. The old police academies have all shut down, and the new order is triumphant.
But are things any better? Unrest is worse than ever. Criminals are more likely to kill rather than be caught.
There’s a war coming for the streets…
This omnibus collects three novellas by Michael Carroll, Joseph Elliott-Coleman and Maura McHugh.
And there's an amazing cast of authors:
Nuzo Onoh | Maura McHugh | P. Djèlí Clark | Evan J. Peterson | S.P. Miskowski | Craig Laurance Gidney | Lynda E. Rucker | Tariro Ndoro | D.A. Xiaolin Spires | Mike Allen | Jeffrey Thomas | Erica L. Satifka | Kathe Koja | Leah Bobet | Ramsey Campbell | Wole Talabi | Stephen Graham Jones | R.B. Lemberg | Cody Goodfellow
gather together enough people and strange things happen. that’s just fact. it’s inevitable really. just try keeping them apart. impossible. they just keep clamoring and fiddling and getting into everything and strangeing up the place. can’t say why. you just learn to accept it. even to thrill at it. the ups, the downs, the everchanging nature of it all. it’s unpredictable. it’s exhausting. and it’s fascinating.
REVIEWS
"Taken together, these stories create an uncanny, unpredictable hall of mirrors. These wonderfully strange takes on modern living are sure to resonate with fans of speculative fiction." (STARRED review from Publishers Weekly)
AFTER THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
It is the dawn of the twentieth century.
Following the Martians' failed invasion of Earth, the British Empire has seized their technology and unlocked its secrets for themselves. It is a Golden Age of discovery, adventure, culture, invention—and of domination, and rebellion.
Scarlet Traces reveals a world of ant-headed nightmares; vacuum salesmen; war machines; deadly secrets; clockwork marvels; and Sherlock Holmes, T. S. Eliot and Thomas Edison as you've never seen them before...
Including stories by Stephen Baxter, I. N. J. Culbard, Adam Roberts, Emma Beeby, James Lovegrove, Nathan Duck, Mark Morris, Dan Whitehead, Chris Roberson, Maura McHugh, Jonathan Green and Andrew Lane.
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