Halloween Hall of Fame

Black Beacon Books is horrified to announce our table of contents for Samhain Screams, the anthology that will make Halloween 2025 the spookiest ever! Edited by Greg Chapman and Cameron Trost, and featuring cover art by the former, you'll be screaming all night long this samhain! Tell your neighbours not to bother calling the police...

Without further ado, here's our Halloween Hall of Fame! 

The stories are in no particular order at this stage.

Toomie’s Ghost Story - Epiphany Ferrell

Candy Train - Em Starr

Vengeance of Halloween - Kevin M. Folliard

Halloween Under the Sea - Nick Manzolillo

Clyde - Tom Rimer

Hauntology - Matthew R. Davis

Indian Corn - Jacy Morris

The Last Pumpkin - Mia Dalia

The Knock - DJ Tyrer

That Time of Year - Daniel Fox

Where the World is Thin - Arthur Goodhill

We Played the Odds at Whitley - Darren Todd

Whispers - Martin Livings

Sweet Tooth - Brian Moreland

Living Creatures - Elle Jones

The October Shadows - Hannah Baxter

The Revellers of the Rift - Marty Young

The Hollows - C.E. O’Conaing

The Day You Die - S.B. Watson

The Black Van - Tom Coombe

First Mystery Acceptances for 2025

Black Beacon Books is proud to announce the following acceptances from the first round of submissions for The Third Black Beacon Book of Mystery. The table of contents will be finalised in October.

Mystery writers should get their submissions in by the end of September after reading the full guidelines on our submissions page.

 

Summoning Forth the Ghost Stories

It's time for an apparition! Yes, we can now summon forth the table of contents for The Black Beacon Book of Ghost Stories, due out in time for Halloween 2024. This is going to be a big book with things that go bump on every page! The original cover art is on its way... 

Sally's in the Well - Sam Dawson
Effigy in Flagrante - Matthew R. Davis

The Spreading Rot - Leanbh Pearson
The Widow of Wood Forge - C. M. Saunders
The Ice Tigs - Rose Biggin
The Gospel of Abbott Wulfbald - Lawrence Harding
Red Dirt - Em Starr
The Yūrei of Old Stonybrook Lane - Michael Picco
Through a Looking Glass Darkly - Karen Keeley
Dead Angel Trail - Robert Allen Lupton
Where the Heart Is - Mike Adamson
Fiachra Conneally's Bargain - L. P. Ring
The Creeper - David Turnbull
Open Book - Cameron Trost
A Passage in Time - E. Michael Lewis

Let's Walk the Plank Together in 2024!

Our timbers are thoroughly shivered here at Black Beacon Books! We're thrilled to announce the table of contents and the publication date for our next anthology, The Black Beacon Book of Pirate Tales! 

A huge thank you to all the authors who submitted their work for consideration. For such a niche theme, the response was fantastic, and we're honoured to have brought together so much talent for yet another gripping anthology. Congratulations to the authors who made the grade and a big thank you again to Daniele Serra for the spectacular cover art. 

Are you ready to walk the plank? 

When: Friday the 21st of June

Who: Check it out! 

The Mutineer - Lawrence Dagstine

The End of All Tides - Paulene Turner

Poll Pirate - Michael Fountain

The Ghost - S. B. Watson 

And the Sea - Jack Wells

Dungeon Rock - Edward Lodi

The Avery Dog Has His Day - Rose Biggin

The Curse of the Emerald Eye - Cameron Trost

Les Femmes Sauvages - Karen Bayly

Sting of the Schorpioen - D. J. Tyrer

Beholden to No One - Karen Keeley

Dark Reflections: Cover Reveal and TOC

Here it is! Check out Greg Chapman - Horror Author & Artist's cover for the forthcoming dark fiction collection from Paul Kane. We hope you love it as much as we do. Dark Reflections will be published in December, just in time for ghost story season. These short stories are a wink and a nod to Paul's influences, including M.R. James, Charles Dickens, William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edgar Allan Poe. The foreword is provided by the legendary Kim Newman, Kim Newman's Anno Dracula books. So much talent in just one book! Keep looking in that mirror...

Dark Reflections

Stories Influenced by the Masters of Dark Literature

Proudly presenting the table of contents:

In Hyding (Traumas, published by Black Shuck Books, 2020)

Signals (Ghosts, Spectral Press, 2013)

Life Sentence (Albions Alpträume: Zombies Eloy Edictions, 2006)

Humbuggered (Festive Fear, Tasmaniac, 2010)

The Greatest Mystery (Gaslight Arcanum, Edge Publishing, 2011)

Dracula in Love (Dead Things Issue 5, October/December 2000)

Heartless (Original to this Collection)

Masques (Return of the Raven, Horror Bound Books, 2009)

Paw People (Original to this Collection) 

Thicker Than Water (Innsmouth Nightmares, PS Publishing, 2015)

The Grey Room (Original to this Collection)

The Black Beacon Book of Horror: Release Date and Table of Contents

We're proud to announce the contributing authors and stories for The Black Beacon Book of Horror. This is going to be huge! The anthology will be published on Friday the 13th of October so everyone can grab an ebook or print copy in the lead-up to Halloween.

Now, are you ready to discover the line-up?

Drum roll...

The Guisers by David Turnbull
The House on the Bluff by Edward Lodi
The Choir by Kev Harrison
Ruby's Syzygy by Matthew R. Davis
Humus by Sam Dawson
Questions a Man Ought Not to Ask by Elizabeth Broadbent
Marjorie by Meg Belviso
Children of Blood by Greg Chapman
Quiver by Angelique Fawns
Cameo by Deborah Sheldon
The Great Invocation by David Schembri
Dominion by Jeff Wood
Divine Liquor by C.C. Adams
Landslide by Harris Coverley
Holiday Home by Cameron Trost
Her Mother's Lullaby by Micah Castle

For the first time ever, this anthology includes stories by both the cover artist, Greg Chapman, and the man behind our logo, David Schembri.