Publishing North West

Paul Neads

Synopsis

Ballista deliciously presents fresh and inventive tales considering the supernatural, psychological, paranormal, modern horror, mythos, macabre, SF, dark fantasy or just the downright bizarre.

Issue 7 is available now and features chilling new tales from David Tallerman, Neil Beynon, Daniel Wilson, Terence Kuch, Brian G. Ross, Naoka Awa, Mario Milosevic, Phil Kurthausen & Jon Vagg. Sadly, this will be our final issue.

Reviews

The editor scrutinises the screen of his laptop, trying hard to ignore the gaze of the thing on the shelf, the lamentable rustling of its papery soul. He wonders if he is going mad, whether the conversation he’d just had with it really happened.
After a while, he perceives its insistent whisper again. ‘So that’s it? After all we’ve been through? You’re just ending it?’
He shrugs, trying to conceal his guilt beneath a mask of nonchalance. ‘All good things . . .’ He doesn’t have the heart to complete the excruciating platitude.
There is a shadow around the thing where the damp wallpaper falls across it. ‘But why?’ it seems to whimper...

Price £4.00

Details
ISBN 17506646.....
Publisher Flapjack Press
Genre Short Fiction
Extent 48pp

Other Titles by Paul Neads

• The Ugly Tree #20
• BALLISTA #6