Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror

David A. Riley began writing horror stories while still at school and had his first professional sale to Pan Books 1969, which was The Lurkers in the Abyss, published in the The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories. This story was chosen for inclusion in The Century’s Best Horror Fiction, published by Cemetery Dance in 2012. Over the years he has had numerous stories published in Britain and the United States, plus translations into German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. Publishers include Pan, Sphere, Doubleday, Corgi, ROC, Cemetery Dance, DAW, Robinson, Vintage, Skyhorse, and Prime. Magazine. He has had stories in World of Horror, Fear, Whispers, Fantasy Tales, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries andLovecraft eZine. His first collection of short stories, His Own Mad Demons: Dark Tales from David A. Riley, was published by Hazardous Press in 2012. The Return, a Lovecraftian horror novel, was published by Blood Bound Books in 2013. This second collection brings together under one cover seventeen of the author’s best blood-curdling stories.

Contents:

• Introduction by David A. Sutton
• The Lurkers in the Abyss
• After Nightfall
• The Urn
• Terror on the Moors
• The Shade of Apollyon
• Prickly
• Writer's Cramp
• Winter on Aubarch
• The Shadow by the Altar
• Out of Corruption
• A New Lease
• No Sense in Being Hungry She Thought
• Help-Plants
• Inside the Labyrinth
• A Sense of Movement
• Soft Little Fingers
• His Pale Blue Eyes
• Fish-Eye