A midsummer evening of fiction, talks and music inspired by pagan places and standing stones. This is a special event to celebrate Dark Earth’s third birthday.
Ramsey Campbell, Simon Bestwick, John Reppion, and M.S. Swift.
With music from Orchids.
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Saturday, June 21, 4 – 7 pm.
Dark Earth Records, 16 Seaview Road, Liscard, CH45 4LA, UK
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Ramsey, Simon, John and M.S. will each read to us, the pieces especially selected for the occasion. Followed by an open Q&A (chaired by Tim Shewan, MRJAS) and a meet-and-greet/book-signing with the authors.
The event will be brought to a close with an exclusive, debut live performance by Liverpool-based pagan folk band, Orchids.
Organised in partnership with the M.R. James Appreciation Society.
RAMSEY CAMPBELL
“Britain’s most respected living horror writer” – (Oxford Companion to English Literature)
Ramsey Campbell (born in Liverpool) is a multi award-winning English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over 60 years. Three of his novels have been filmed, both for English and non-English-speaking audiences. Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field.
SIMON BESTWICK
“Bestwick is brilliant” – (The Guardian)
He is the author of seven novels and four full-length short story collections, has been four times shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award. Iconic horror writer, Ramsey Campbell has described Bestwick as part of an important class of contemporary British writers developing a “consciously political form of horror fiction, using the genre to examine and symbolise Thatcher’s Britain and the country’s subsequent decades.”
JOHN REPPION
“Reppion creates a wonderful and faithful poetic adaptation that is a delight to read” – (Comicon.com review of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
John Reppion is an author, scriptwriter, essayist, and folklore enthusiast whose works include a graphic novel adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Fascinating Folklore, a compendium of comics and essays.
M.S. SWIFT
M.S. Swift writes dark fantasy and horror, often with an occult influence. His work has been published in various anthologies, including Cthulhu Lies Dreaming: Twenty-three Tales of the Weird and Cosmic, Lovecraftiana, and quarterlies such as Chthonic Matter.
His work has been praised as “magical and captivating”, “subversive content with complex themes”, “lavish, hallucinogenic”, and some of “the weirdest and disturbing tales.”