A few months ago Mathew F. Riley teamed up with Bill Hussey and Joseph D’Lacey to create and collaborate on the Horror Reanimated blog – a celebration of all things horror.

At the end of May we went on a short but sweet Horror Reanimated tour, officially launching the blog, but also celebrating the publication of Bill and Joseph’s latest novels, The Absence, and Garbage Man respectively. We all read at the events; Bill and Joseph from their novels, and Mathew reading Seems Only Right, the winning entry in the British Fantasy Society’s Short Story competition.

At those events we also gave away a limited edition chapbook to the attendees: Horror Reanimated 1: Echoes.

The chapbook contains 3 pieces of fiction totalling 25,000 words; one from each author:

• Joseph D’Lacey’s Rhiannon’s Reach – the victim of a diving accident conquers his fear of the water
• Bill Hussey’s A Room Thus Stained – a Victorian vigilante loses himself in the streets of Whitechapel
• Mathew F. Riley’s Part of the Landscape – a disenchanted worker is drawn from the everyday into an underworld of memories which form the fabric and structure of London

You can read a review here.

We hope it’ll be the first of several publications from Horror Reanimated and we have kept back a signed copy for each of the first three people drawn from the hat, who can answer the following question correctly:

What is the title of Joseph D’Lacey’s first novel?

• Eats, Shoots and Leaves
• Meet and Greet
• Meat

Terms and conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 30th July 2009.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
5. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookgeeks. The webmaster’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. The winner’s name may be published on the Bookgeeks website after the closing date of the competition.
7. The competition is not open to Bookgeeks contributors and their families, or toLittle, Brown Book Group employees and their families.
8. What’s that going over the hill, is it a horror author? No, it’s not hairy enough.

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