Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival

I’m looking forward to appearing at the British Library’s second annual Tales of the Weird festival, in an event that’s focusing on my new book for them, All the Fear of the Fair. Here are some details about the individual slot, though the whole weekend is packed full of some wonderful talks and panels:

15:30 – 16:45, SUNDAY 2 NOV. ALL THE FEAR OF THE FAIR
Edward Carey, Edward Parnell, Elf Lyons. With Kit Green

A new British Library Tales of the Weird collection edited by Ghostland author Edward Parnell has brought back to life sixteen enchanted, nightmarish tales of circus, spectacle and sideshow. Step right up if you dare as he is joined on stage by comedian and clown Elf Lyons and playwright and novelist Edward Carey, author of The Iremonger trilogy and Edith Holler, the tale of brilliant 12-year-old Edith who is cursed to never leave her family’s tumbledown theatre.

For further details including how to get in-person and online tickets please click here.

NEW BOOK: All the Fear of the Fair

Very excited to announce that my new book for the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow, is out today and available from all good book shops (and probably even some bad ones). Roll up, roll up!

Here’s a list of the 16 stories, all of which have an individual introduction (in addition to my general intro):

‘Hop-Frog’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘Satan’s Circus’ by Eleanor Smith

‘Circus Child’ by Margery Lawrence

‘A High Dive’ by L. P. Hartley

‘Spurs’ by Tod Robbins

‘Waxworks’ by W. L. George

‘The Harlem Horror’ by Charles Birkin

‘Freak Show’ by Robert Silverberg

‘The Conjurer’ by Richard Middleton

‘The Vanishing Trick’ by Charles Davy

‘The Little Town’ by J. D. Beresford

‘The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy’ by Gerald Kersh

‘Punch and Judy’ by Frederick Cowles

‘The Haunted Roundabout’ by ‘Simplex’

‘The Black Ferris’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Swords’ by Robert Aickman