Review - These Foolish & Harmful Delights

Over at Ginger Nuts of Horror, Eric J. Guignard has reviewed my collection These Foolish & Harmful Delights. Here's a wee excerpt:

These Foolish & Harmful Delights by Cate Gardner is an engaging collection of dark fantasy tales that range in subject matter from Hell-borne Punch and Judy dolls, to haunted asylums for the condemned, to demons and monsters in love.

You can buy my book over at Amazon in ebook or paperback.

Ginger Nuts of Christmas

Jim McLeod - Mr Ginger Nuts of Horror himself - has listed his top anthologies and single-author collections of 2019. I am happy to announce that The Woods is amongst the listed and Jim has this to say about my story:

Cate Gardner proving once again just how amazing a writer she is, and confirming that her recently announced collection will be going straight to the top of my TBR pile.

My head just about made it through the doorway this morning. Although, if it had gotten wedged, I wouldn't have had to come into work.

Other work (amazing work) to make the list include collections by Laura Maura, Georgina Bruce, Andrew Freudenberg, Tracey Fahey and Tim Major.

The Rise of the Review

My short story, The Drop of Light and the Rise of Dark, appeared in Black Static #45 last month. I'm still pinching myself and resisting getting this beauty framed. Here be links to reviews from some fine folk:

"This one takes a very simple seeming scenario and weaves a dark, brooding story full of menace and terror, which ushers in some real, heartfelt emotion." Paul M Feeney, Ginger Nuts of Horror.

"So that redoubled the terror of this second little girl story (here physically disabled) who imagines the eclipse never-ending as she tries to struggle downstairs to find her parents or her best friend." DF Lewis

"...Gardner keeps an extra cruel sting in her tail – a reminder that in horror, and in life, you can’t get away so easily." Gareth Jones, Dread Central.

There is also a lovely review by Jess Landry over at HELLNOTES that favourites SP Miskowski, Stephen Hargadon and Steve Rasnic Tem's stories.