Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls – Brian Hodge “‘A Revelation of Cormorants’ first appeared in the excellent series of chapbooks published by Nicholas Royle’s Nightjar Press,” explains Valentine, “and I first encountered the dark grace of the cormorant while visiting Galloway with Jo.” I couldn’t remember the other details of that dream, but I was determined to find out where that image might have come from.”Ī Revelation of Cormorants – Mark Valentine “As for the following story,” reveals Steve Rasnic Tem, “it began with a dreadful image at the end of a dream. “But then Emma and Holly appeared – trapped within their own fractured, futile relationship – and everything just, well, fell together. But I could never work a story around it that didn’t seem twee. “In my head was the image of a doll house, huge and not quite right, and a woman searching desperately for something concealed inside. “I carried the bones of this story around for quite a few years before I finally stumbled upon its beating heart,” explains the author. It was originally published as a chapbook by Nightjar Press, with an enigmatic cover illustration by Birmingham photographer Trav28.” Davis, whose words influenced this story. “I’d like to thank The Nightingales and Gul Y. ‘Black Country’ is also a sequel to my earlier story ‘The Lost District’, which describes another narrator’s experience of Clayheath. “A collection of them is forthcoming with the title Where Furnaces Burn. “‘Black Country’ is one of a sequence of weird crime stories set in the West Midlands that I’ve been working on for years,” says Joel Lane.
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