Liam Hogan

2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Arachne Press celebrated with an evening of stories, poetry and song on the subject of Liberty, now collected together in book form. The call out continued until the end of the year, and here are the collected and eclectic responses, from authors and poets from all corners of the UK and further afield, including Sarah Evans, Nick Rawlinson, Helen Morris, Owen Townend, Alison Lock, Peter de Ville, Cassandra Passarelli, David Guy, Carolyn Eden, Brian Johnstone, Andrew McCallum, Bernie Howley, Jeremy Dixon, Liam Hogan, Jim Cogan, Katy Darby, David Mathews, Anna Fodorova, Cherry Potts, Richard Smyth.

42 Sci-fi stories by an Award-winning Writer Time travel to multiverses, via aliens, pocket spaceships, teleportation mishaps, homicidal AIs, eco-disasters, and space pirates. Includes the award-winners Ana, Tribbulations, and Re-Boot, along with stories published in Best of British Science Fiction, Nature Futures, and Analog.

Once Upon a Future Time, Volume 3 presents seventeen reimagined folk and fairy tales as science fiction stories, featuring work from Elizabeth Brownell, Steven Lord, Erin Hall, Beth Goder, M.L. Martin, Catherine Berry, Devan Barlow, Ray Daley, Liam Hogan, Pamela Love, Kara Race-Moore, Lisa Short, AB Casadella, Michal Hoyt, Hannah Birss, J Hans Aron, and Terra P. Waters.

Once Upon a Future Time, Volume 3 presents seventeen reimagined folk and fairy tales as science fiction stories, featuring work from Elizabeth Brownell, Steven Lord, Erin Hall, Beth Goder, M.L. Martin, Catherine Berry, Devan Barlow, Ray Daley, Liam Hogan, Pamela Love, Kara Race-Moore, Lisa Short, AB Casadella, Michal Hoyt, Hannah Birss, J Hans Aron, and Terra P. Waters.

A brand new collection of science fiction and fantasy stories from Wyldblood Press.We kick off with Liam Hogan's Vanishing Village, a weird and unsettling supernatural tale. The moral of the story? Beware locals offering gifts of food and drink in a crowded pub at the middle of a mysterious semi-abandoned village in the middle of nowhere. Also beware selkies bent on revenge - and see how Elisabeth Kauffman tackles that sea-sodden subject in Foundering Fate. Next up we have Egyptian writer Amal El Sayed with thoughtful and hard-hitting fantasy tale of ancient conflict: Unmask Me won't be a story you'll quickly forget. We get lighter then - Steve Burford's Knock Knock takes us in to the mind of a newly sentient AI with a sense of humour. Tee Linden's Metamorphosis takes us back into darker territory - a fantasy tale of forest whisperings and discovery. Speaking of forests, we also have Dawn Vogel's Family Tree and Elana Gomel's Forests of Day and Night so there's definitely a theme emerging - both thoughtful fantasies from regular Wyldblood contributors. Suspended Sentence by Maureen Bowden is all about trying to escape your fate, and, lastly Gardens, Ghosts and War by H.L. Fullerton continues the nature theme, but this time there's a mysterious sword and a kid who can see dead people. No, not that story. Definitely no Bruce Willis.Add a couple of drabbles and our regular review and views columns and that's Wyldblood 14.

Obeying the powerful is easy. To resist takes courage.When interests collide-between countries, or social classes, or different notions of right and wrong-power and violence lurk close by. Do you submit out of fear? Or because it's the smart move? Fight to defend your honor or your home? Or do you fight because that is all you have ever known?In For the Good of the Realm: Stories of Power and Defiance, experience eight fantasy short stories by skilled authors-each with a different take on power and obedience. The succession to a noble title depends on the cunning of an underworld fixer. Wizards and common folk struggle for supremacy in a parliamentary democracy. A famous mercenary general returns to the village that he once conquered, with an unknown purpose. Cultures clash as a barbarian princess arrives at the court of a neighboring king with a shocking request. And more For the Good of the Realm features the following short stories: "Dinja Duwar," by S.R. Crickard"A Well-Placed Word," by Derek Des Anges"Magic and Steel," by Liam Hogan"Scars," by Jake Lithua"Birthstones," by Marshall J. Moore"For the Sake of a Dandelion," by Jennifer R. Povey"The Silk Code," by Samantha Rich"The Warrior Princess of Mogtesa," by JM WilliamsWith an introduction by editor Oren Litwin.

Ten tales of horror and dark fantasy, each with the retro-vintage flair readers have come to appreciate from the Curiosities anthology series. A poet makes a passage with death. A solitary monster meets another. Nazi war experiments run amuck on the Eastern Front. Unsettling sounds follow you through the New England woods. A sea captain takes in a mermaid, though it may be his doom. One very monstrous clock. And more.From the gothic to the grotesque, these exhibits will have you trading your steampunk browns for gothic blacks, and back again. Featuring a guest editorial on the roots of cosmic horror by the queen of cosmic horror herself, Mary SanGiovanni. The Curse of the Thorn by Elaine Vilar Madruga, translated by Toshiya KameiThe Monstrous Metronome by Lena NgThe Peculiarity of Two by Liam HoganA Dog's Death by Diana A. HartSilvergloom by Jonathan DuckworthThe Well-Trained Thing in Constance's Dress by John AdamsTo Our Own Ghosts by Deborah L. DavittThe Revellers by Marisca PichetteCurio. by Catherine McCarthyAppointment in Time by James DorrNon-fiction: Lovecraft's Legacy of Cosmic Horror by Mary SanGiovanniNon-fiction: Interview with Lena Ng by Andrew McCurdyEdited by Kevin Frost and Andrew McCurdy

Twelve grisly new tales of fur and fury in this brand new anthology of werewolf stories from Wyldblood Press. Liam Hogan's The Mortsafe, full of gothic darkness, Holly Rae Garcia's Werewolf's Lament (because werewolves have feelings too), Chris Muscato's Howling on the Moon. Werewolves in space - and right in the place where it all happens for them. Full moon all the time - kill or cure, right? Then M.T Johnson's Ivanwolf tells a very human story of some decidedly inhuman happenings.Holly Barratt's Rabbit Ears in the Laundry helps us face up to some of the more troublesome consequences of living with a werewolf, but the mood swiftly darkens with the tense suspense of Eric Nash's unsettling Rewilding. Laura Garrity's The Lodger explores what happens when the new guy in the spare bedroom suddenly has more fur than a landlady has a right to expect, followed by a tale of doomed love - The Wolf is Always at Your Door by E.J Sidle, and C. H. Knyght's To Prey which (spoiler) is nothing to do with going to church. Then a pause with the quirky Walking Dog by David J Rank before settling into a fine lupine love story - Adam Stemple's Werewolf Eulogy. Then full circle with the Big L - like the opener the Mortsafe, this is a story of how to tame the curse, but with a very different outcome.

‘Deliciously Twisted’ In the realms of fantasy, it is foolish to upset the wee folk. Downright dangerous to incur the curse of a witch. And above all, it is perilous to ignore a warning. Happy Ending Not Guaranteed Contains 27 stories of dark fantasy, from chess-playing automatons to smooth-talking Celtic faeries; from the Longitude Act of 1714 to the End of the World (in fractal form). Bad Kings, bad demons, and bad days abound. There is humour even in darkness. You just have to look harder for it.