Sunday 17 June 2012

A Supernatural Twisted Tales

Another Twisted Tales event in my hometown yesterday, which of course meant I got to meet Simon Bestwick beforehand for a coffee...only I had water, but saying we met up for a water is just odd, but then we are odd. It was delightful to see Simon again. 

This time the readings were by Graham Joyce, Alison Littlewood and Simon Kurt Unsworth. Excellent stories by excellent people. Attendance was a little down this time, maybe because the event was held on a Saturday rather than a Friday or maybe because the weather was atrocious. After the event, Simon B, Simon U, Alison, her partner Fergus, and myself headed off to the pub for a rather teetotal affair, before I took the Bestwick on a circumnavigated route around Liverpool to get to a train station that he probably could have gotten to quicker by himself, but then I got to steal him for a little bit longer. Muahaha. 

Also got to meet Dan Howarth, one of the This is Horror team. Which reminds me (and please someone actually remind me on pay day) I need to subscribe to the This is Horror chapbook series. Forthcoming chapbooks are by Simon Bestwick & Gary McMahon, David Moody, Conrad Williams and Joseph D'Lacey.

You can read about other Twisted Tales events here, here and here - that's if you have nothing more productive to do today. 

7 comments:

Michael Stone said...

Graham Joyce, my literary hero. Damn I'm jealous now!

Cate Gardner said...

Liverpool is the place to be.

Simon said...

Great to be kidnapped by you again. Cate! :) x

Cate Gardner said...

It's not many who have the privilege. ;) Although next time you'll probably say you can find the train station by yourself as you want to get home before the next Twisted Tales event starts.

Anthony Rapino said...

Sounds like a great event! I wish I had something like that around here.

Deborah Walker said...

That sounds fabulous.

Cate Gardner said...

I wish you could have both been there. (And Mike too)