Welcoming Stephanie M. Wytovich 

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes Bram Stoker Award-winning poet Stephanie M. Wytovich to the blog to talk about her poem “The Carousel”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

 

Welcoming Alan Baxter 

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes award-winning author Alan Baxter to the blog to talk about his short story “Eighty-five Per Cent, Give or Take”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

 

Animation: From Children's Treat to Universal Language

Or: How I Discovered That Adults Sobbing Over Animated Characters Is Considered Normal Behaviour

Topics: Between Worlds, Writer in Residence, lifeinlondon

 

Welcoming Sean Hogan

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes renowned filmmaker and writer Sean Hogan to the blog to talk about his short story “The Dark Gets In”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

 

Welcoming Georgina Bruce

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes British Fantasy Award-winning author Georgina Bruce to the blog to talk about her short story “The Book of Dreems”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

 

Thames vs The Arabian Sea: Love Letters to Water

Or: How I Learned to Love Two Very Different Water Bodies

Topics: Between Worlds, Writer in Residence, lifeinlondon

 

Welcoming Marie O’Regan

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes acclaimed author-editor Marie O’Regan to the blog to talk about her short story “There’s a Ghost in My House”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

We’re delighted to present the contents list for our upcoming Beyond & Within anthology: Witchcraft: Folk Tales & Horror Stories, publishing in January 2026. Edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane, this new collection of witchcraft stories delves into global mythologies and forgotten folklore, exploring what it truly means to be a ‘witch’. From eerie forests to haunted landscapes, these tales rise from the earth itself, weaving together themes of isolation, power, and the ancient bond between witches and nature. Each story reclaims and reimagines witchcraft – its roots, its risks, and the choice between light and dark magic. 5 stories in this collection were selected from an open submissions process which attracted hundreds of submissions.

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.

Topics: Short Stories, anthologies

Welcoming Sara Larner

Flame Tree Press welcomes author and screenwriter Sara Larner to the blog to talk about their short story “A Note for William Cowper”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

 

The Geography of Missing: How Home Became Plural

Or: How I Learned That Homesickness Isn't Actually About Geography

Topics: Between Worlds, Writer in Residence, lifeinlondon