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By: Paul Draper
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A disused London Underground lift goes way beyond the bottom floor. A psychic boy discovers what terrors are buried in the fallow field. A handshake seals a midnight fate in an old farming dispute. A corpse must be buried by dawn.

Black Gate Tales: Fourteen short stories of dread, hope, death, and wonder.

"Unnerving, beautifully dark and twisted prose...a refreshing but classic voice in horror and fantasy. Much like the rabbit hole, you never know where Paul Draper’s tales will take you and you’re never disappointed." (H.G. Rexon, author of Between the Fog and Shadows: A Historical Fantasy)

"A terrific collection, consistently well-written and full of light, clever touches." (Rober Grossmith, author of The Empire of Lights)

©2020 Paul Draper (P)2021 Paul Draper Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction
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Fascinating attention to detail, a complete gripping of the imagination, a pure artistic expression!

Brilliant

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Normally I rate anthologies based on the story I liked best, but I can understand why people have higher expectations of consistency from single-authored collections... Still. The stories I liked here I REALLY liked, so I'm going to go with 4.5 stars overall, even if I didn't really find much memorable after the second entry.

The first two, 'The Wrong Harvest' and 'Mrs Pendleton's Corpse', are VERY engrossing. Mysterious (what exactly does the protagonist clairaudiate in the first story, what are those entities in the second?), witchy (I'm a sucker for that, I will admit), almost reminiscent of Arthur Machen at times but less... offputting. I hope Mrs Pendleton will be all right (that will make more sense when you read the stories), and that I read things correctly!!! But you SHOULD read / listen to the stories. This is a very engaging pair of tales, and people less obnoxiously picky than me will likely find a lot more to revisit in the rest of the collection.

4.5 stars for the first two stories

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