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JOEL LANE
1. Novels
From Blue To Black, Serpent’s Tail, 2000.
The Blue Mask, Serpent’s Tail, 2003.
2. Collections
The Earth Wire (short stories), Egerton Press, 1994.
The Edge of the Screen (poems), Arc, 1999.
Trouble In the Heartland (poems), Arc, 2004.
3. Anthologies (editor)
Birmingham Noir (crime and supense stories), co-edited with Steve Bishop, Tindal Street Press, 2002.
Beneath the Ground (supernatural horror stories), The Alchemy Press, 2003.
4. Short stories

1984
‘The God of Clay’, Dark Horizons 27, 1984.
1985
‘The Brand’, Dark Dreams 2, 1985.
‘Irene’s Garden’, Dark Horizons 28, 1985.
1986
‘The Foggy, Foggy Dew’ (booklet), Mark Valentine, Northampton, 1986; reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XV ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW, 1987; also in The Earth Wire, 1994.
1988
‘Double Cross’, Aklo, Spring 1988.
‘Hide’, Gay Life, Oct. 1988.

1989
‘The Earth Wire’, Winter Chills 3, 1989; reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XVIII ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW, 1990; also in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘The Dispossessed’, Fantasy Tales 2, 1989.
‘I, Said the Sparrow’, Dark Dreams 7, 1989.
‘You Don’t Have To Say’, The Freezer Counter ed. David Rees and Peter Robins, Third House, 1989. [Text contains a significant error.]
‘Albert Ross’, Panurge 11, 1989; reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
1990
‘The Night Won’t Go’, Critical Quarterly 32(4), 1990; reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘Human Nature’, Dementia 13 issue 5, 1990.
‘The Circus Floor’, Nutshell 11, 1990; reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
1991
‘Tell the Difference’, Skeleton Crew 7, 1991.
‘Imperfect Strangers’, Transactions of the Doppelganger Society, 1991; reprinted in 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble Books, 1997. [Very early story.]
‘Power Cut’, Skeleton Crew 10, 1991; reprinted in Best New Horror 3 ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell, Robinson, 1992.
‘Stigmata’ and ‘Empty Mouths’, Exuberance 4, 1991.
‘Common Land’, Darklands ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1991 (also NEL, 1993); reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XX ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW, 1992; also in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘The Death of the Witness’, Ambit 126, 1991; reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
1992
‘Waiting For a Train’, Darklands 2 ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1992 (also NEL, 1994); reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘And Some Are Missing’, The Sun Rises Red ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington Books, 1992; reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXI ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW, 1993; also in Best New Horror 3 ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell, Robinson/Carroll & Graf, 1992; also in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘The Public Domain’, Dementia 13 issue 12, 1992.
‘In the Brightness of My Day’, Panurge 15/16, 1992; reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘The Charcoal Burner’, Vollmond 4, 1992.
‘The First Time’, Aklo, Autumn 1992.
1993
‘Wave Scars’, Sugar Sleep ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington Books, 1992; reprinted in 100 Tiny Tales of Terror ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble Books, 1996.
‘Thicker Than Water’, Panurge 18, 1993; reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW, 1994; also in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘Other Than the Fair’, Maelstrom 6, 1993; reprinted in The Earth Wire, 1994.
‘Among the Leaves’, Peeping Tom 12, 1993.
‘Take Me When You Go’, The Third Alternative 1, 1993; reprinted in Last Rites & Resurrections ed. Andy Cox, TTA Press, 1995; also in 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble Books, 1998.
‘Midwinter’, Weirdbook Encores 13, 1993. [Very early story. If anyone has a copy of this issue they’re willing to sell, please contact me.]
1994
‘The Pain Barrier’, Little Deaths ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994 (also Dell, 1995).
‘Every Scrapbook Stuck With Glue’, Ambit 137, 1994.
‘Real Drowners’, Cold Cuts 2 ed. Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis, Alun Books, 1994.
‘And Make Me Whole’, The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Tiger Books, 1994.
‘Pieces of Silence’, Chills 8, 1994.
‘Like Shattered Stone’, The Science of Sadness ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington Books, 1994; reprinted in The Best New Horror 6 ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson/Carroll & Graf, 1995.
‘The Clearing’, ‘Branded’, ‘An Angry Voice’ and ‘Playing Dead’, The Earth Wire, 1994.
1995
‘Just Enough’, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble Books, 1995.
‘The Outside World’, The Urbanite 6, 1995; reprinted in Ground Zero 1, 2000.
‘Every Form of Refuge’, Water Baby: Panurge 23 ed. John Murray, Panurge Publishing, 1995.
‘Windows of Flesh’, The Third Alternative 8, 1995.
1996
‘Scratch’, Twists of the Tale ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996.
‘Piano Without Strings’, The Urbanite 7, 1996; reprinted in Midnight Street 3, 2004.
‘Contract Bridge’, The Urbanite 7, 1996.
‘Losing Touch’, Peeping Tom 21, 1996.
‘The Moon Never Changes’, Peeping Tom 24, 1996; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson/Carroll & Graf, 1997.
‘Breaking the Surface’, Kimota 5, 1996.
Dream record (untitled) in The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams ed. Nicholas Royle, Serpent’s Tail, 1996. [Is a recorded dream fiction or non-fiction? Difficult question.]
1997
‘Your European Son’, The Mammoth Book of Dracula ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997.
‘The Plans they Made’, Scaremongers ed. Andrew Haigh, Tanjen, 1997.
‘Keep the Night’, The Third Alternative 12, 1997.
‘The Spoils’, The Silver Web 14, 1997.
‘Making Babies’, The Urbanite 8, 1997.
‘The Mouths’, Main Street Journal 3, 1997.
1998
‘The Country of Glass’, Dark Terrors 4 ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Gollancz, 1998; reprinted in Going the Distance ed. Alan Beard, Tindal Street Press, 2003.
‘Stiff As Toys’, Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden ed. Steve Savile, Tanjen, 1998.
‘The Willow Pattern’ in The Ex Files ed. Nicholas Royle, Quartet, 1998.
‘Prison Ships’, The Third Alternative 17, 1998.
‘Nowhere To Go’, Nasty Piece of Work 10, 1998.
‘The Last Train in the Station’, Kimota 8, 1998.
1999
‘Another Frame’, White of the Moon ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999.
‘Internal Colonies’, Neonlit vol. 2 ed. Nicholas Royle, Quartet, 1999.
‘Feels Like Underground’ (with Chris Morgan), Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1999.
‘His Master’s Voice’, Kimota 10, 1999.
2000
‘The Hunger of the Leaves’, Swords Against the Millennium ed. Mike Chinn, The Alchemy Press, 2000; reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer, Eos, 2001; also in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson/Carroll & Graf, 2001.
‘Cash In Hand’, Hideous Progeny ed. Brian Willis, Razorblade Press, 2000.
‘The Bootleg Heart’, Dark Terrors 5 ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000.
2001
‘The Window’, The Museum of Horrors ed. Dennis Etchison, Leisure Books, 2001.
‘The Lost District’, The Third Alternative 27, 2001; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson/Carroll & Graf, 2002.
‘The House in the Woods’, Kimota 14, 2001.
‘A Hairline Crack’, Roadworks 11, 2001.
‘The Last Cry’, Roadworks 12, 2001.
2002
‘An Unknown Past’, Songs From Dead Singers… and Other Eulogies ed. Michael Kelly, Catalyst Press, 2002.
‘The Receivers’, Dark Terrors 6 ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002; reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Press, 2003.
‘The Drowned’, Nemonymous 2, 2002.
‘Curtain Call’, Kimota 16, 2002.
‘The Hard Copy’, The 3rd Alternative 32, 2002.
‘After the Flood’, The Darker Side ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2002.
‘This Night Last Woman’, Birmingham Noir ed. Joel Lane and Steve Bishop, Tindal Street Press, 2002.
2003
‘Premium Rate’, Here & Now 3, 2003.
‘Coming of Age’, Gathering the Bones ed. Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann and Dennis Etchison, Harper Collins/Tor, 2003.
‘No Secret Place’, Fusing Horizons 1, 2003.
2004
‘Blind Circles’, Fusing Horizons 2, 2004.
‘Against My Ruins’, Midnight Street 1, 2004.
‘Facing the Wall’, The 3rd Alternative 38, 2004.
‘A Cup of Blood’, Supernatural Tales 8, 2004.
‘The Victim Card’, Midnight Street 3, 2004.
5. Articles
Strange Eons and the Cthulhu Mythos’, Dark Horizons 24, 1981.
‘Charnel Knowledge’, Crypt of Cthulhu 30, 1985.
‘Negatives in Print: the Novels of Ramsey Campbell’, Foundation 36, 1986; reprinted in The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell ed. S.T. Joshi, Necronomicon Press, 1993.
‘The Double Edge: Robert Aickman’s Supernatural Stories’, All Hallows 2, 1990.
‘Dead Write’ [original title: ‘Atrocity on Show: the Politics of Horror’], Skeleton Crew 5, 1990.
‘The Master of Masks’, Nyctalops 19, 1991.
‘Beyond the Light: the Recent Novels of Ramsey Campbell’, The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell ed. S.T. Joshi, Necronomicon Press, 1993.
‘Ten Thousand Miles in the Mouth of a Graveyard’ Dementia 13 issue 14, 1994.
‘Writers in the James Tradition 15: Ramsey Campbell’, Ghosts & Scholars 18, 1994.
‘Alone in the Dark’, Squane’s Journal 4 (Ramsey Campbell issue), 1997.
‘Foreword: A Dream By the Old Canal’, Phantoms of Venice ed. David Sutton, Shadow Publishing, 2001.
’This Spectacular Darkness’, Supernatural Tales 3, 2002.
‘The Mansions of Pain: the Dark Houses of Cornell Woolrich’, Wormwood 3, Tartarus Press, 2004.
6. Forthcoming
The Lost District and other stories (collection), Night Shade Books, April 2005. Includes seven previously unpublished stories.
Short stories forthcoming in: Acquainted With the Night ed. Barbara and Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press; The Elastic Press Book of Numbers ed. Allen Ashley, Elastic Press; Poe’s Progeny ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press; Evermore ed. James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey, Arkham House; The Century’s Best Horror Stories ed. John Pelan, Cemetery Dance Publications; Bible Black ed. Brian Willis, Razorblade Press; Cemetery Dance magazine; Terror Tales magazine.
Novella forthcoming in Dust & Shadow ed. Kealan Patrick Burke, Oblivion Press.
Photograph © Peter Coleborn
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