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"...in flesh ...in smoke ...in dream..."

A new story is due out soon in an anthology devoted to Pan and all his various incarnations: the collection is called Soliloquy For Pan (edited by Mark Beech) and will be issued from that superb imprint Egaeus Press. The new tale is named 'The House of Pan' and is the fourth story so far to be set in my Duchy of Greywall series, where the Realm of Faery is but the shadow of a leaf away and ancient magic is far from being an old and faded perfume... 

For the interested the other stories in the Greywall sequence are: 'The Green Lady Pavilion' (Haunted Pavilions, 1992; Allurements of Cabochon, 2011), 'A Ghost At The Grange' (Lichgate 1, 1995) and 'The Betrothed of Winter', (Allurements of Cabochon, 2011). Hopefully I shall write enough to fill a modest collection one day.

I already have my contributor copies of Soliloquy For Pan to hand and as always with this quality small press the production standards are very high indeed. The very boards of the volume are gorgeously stained as if just extracted from a millenia-occluded forest tomb... And just a glance down the content pages reveals new work by Mark Valentine, John Howard, R.B Russell, Reggie Oliver, Stephen J. Clark, Charles Schneider, Jonathan Wood and Colin Insole to name but a few. Venerable reprinted words come from Dion Fortune, A.C Benson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lord Dunsany and others. The volume should be available for pre-order very soon from the Egaeus Press website, with the publication date set most appropriately for the Summer Solstice.

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