The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
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A note from Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn:
“Humour and horror seem to be bedfellows, if not opposite sides of the same coin. One goes with the other. We guffaw at the person who slips on a banana skin, only to feel guilt at the victim’s painful landing. Or we hear bad news and feel terrible about it; yet afterwards, if all resolves satisfactorily, we smile in relief. In this book you’ll read stories where the laugh may come first, or at the end.”
Contents List:
The Cartoonist by Steve Rasnic Tem
The Enchanted Ape by Stephen Gallagher
The Dollhouse by Joanne Anderton
The Sympathy Card by Keith Fowkes
Burning Trees by Joyce Chng
The Station at the Edge of Nowhere by Michael Merriam
Shit Happens by Michael Marshall Smith
The Day We Drove the Demons Back by Garry Kilworth
Scaun by John F. Leonard
Rat Race by Juliet McKenna
Don’t Watch by Ramsey Campbell
A Rose by Any Other Name by Samantha Lee
Shoes by Stephen Volk
Home Sweet Home by John L. Probert
The Sweetest Grease by Adam Newnham
Main Character Energy by Thana Niveau
Frumpy Little Beat Girl by Peter Atkins
An Echo of Distant Laughter by Gary McMahon
The Last Laugh by Rod A. White
Peter Coleborn created the award-winning Alchemy Press in the 1990s, editing and publishing a range of anthologies, collections, novellas, novels, and non-fiction titles. He co-edited the Joel Lane tribute Something Remains and three volumes of The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors, plus the PS anthology Shadowplays with Mike Chinn.
Mike Chinn has written fiction running from Westerns to Sword & Sorcery and Space Opera, via Horror, Pulp Adventure stories, and the occasional Sherlock Holmes pastiche. He has edited four books for The Alchemy Press (Swords Against the Millennium, and Pulp Heroes volumes one to three) and co-edited Shadowplays alongside Peter Coleborn.
