Between the Tracks: Tales from the Ghost Train

by Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, M.R. James

Overview

The Subway Butcher is back! Meet the Piggyback Man! Board the 3:18 train!

All these and more make up a total of 24 short, scary stories about trains...

This is the 6"x9" softcover version which includes a 6-page comic strip, an essay by Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn about Clive Barker's epic 'The Midnight Meat Train, ' which is reprinted here in a unique annotated format. With an introduction by Mark Alan Miller, this book is ideal for collectors and anyone who enjoys being scared on their daily commute!

So, mind the gap and tread carefully as you tread Between the Tracks...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Steve Dillon
• The Address by Ramsey Campbell
• Casting the Runes by M.R. James
• All Aboard by Christopher Golden
• The Piggyback Man by Steve Vernon
• The Circle Line by Martin Livings
• When Push Comes to Shove by Paul Kane
• They All Come Through London in the End by Alan Baxter
• Ismail's Expulsion by Brian Craddock
• Four Turns by Raven McAllister
• The Deep Beneath by Matthew R Davis
• Under a Furious Moon by Dan Rabarts
• The Toll by Mark Allan Gunnells
• The Sun Never Sets in the West - 6-page comic strip by Darren Koziol and Ben Sullivan
• Trackers by Lee Murray
• Bon Voyage, Voyage by Amdi Silvestri
• Fractured Reality by Robert Mammone
• Ash and Darkness by Pete Sutton
• Train Wreck by Noel Osualdini
• Playing with Fire by Jonathan Cromack
• The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
• Salvation is Closed by Marty Young
• The Shiraz Train by Steve Dillon
• The Last Train by G.M. Hague
• Introduction to The Midnight Meat Train by Mark Alan Miller
• The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
• Aboard the Midnight Meat Train--Clive Barker's Urban Nightmare by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780994592248
Publisher:	Stephen Dillon
Publication date:	04/30/2017
Series:	(6"x9") , #1
Edition description:	Softback 6x9 ed.
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

A visionary, fantasist, poet and painter, Clive Barker has expanded the reaches of human imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter and dramatist who generally describes himself as "an Imaginer." Stephen King once described Barker as "The future of horror." Clive Barker's Books of Blood were quickly followed by a string of successful novellas and novels and several movie adaptations including the Hellraiser series, Nightbreed and The Midnight Meat Train, which is considered among the best adaptations from his short stories. Others inspired by his seminal collection of short stories include The Book of Blood; Dread; Rawhead Rex; Lord of Illusions; and the Candyman series. Clive's most recent work includes The Scarlet Gospels, and a series of illustrated novels ostensibly aimed at children, the Abarat series, three of which have been published and a further two he has been working on in visual and written form for several years. In 2012, Barker was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writer's Association, for his outstanding contribution to the genre.

Ramsey Campbell is one of the most respected writers of horror and weird fiction. He has won more awards than any other living author of horror or dark fantasy, including the World Fantasy Award Life Award in 2015, 14 British Fantasy Awards, 4 World Fantasy Awards, 3 Bram Stoker Awards, 3 Horror Guild Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and more. Campbell's most recent novels and novellas include The Searching Dead, Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach, The Booking (novella), Think Yourself Lucky, and The Pretence, and his most recent collections include Inconsequential Tales, Just Behind You, The Last Revelation Of Gla'aki, Holes for Faces, and Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal. Many of his tales have been included in anthologies, and Campbell himself has edited or co-edited several anthologies. In recent months an anthology of stories was published, called 'The Children of Gla'aki-a Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Old One' in which each story was inspired by Campbell's short story The Inhabitant of the Lake. Initially influenced by Lovecraft and Machen among others, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants was published by Arkham House when he was eighteen years old. On the advice of August Derleth, he later relocated his story settings from Lovecraft country to more familiar English settings in and around the fictional city of Brichester, which he positioned near the River Severn. Much of the later work is set in or near Liverpool (See Secret Stories, Creatures of the Pool). For many years he was the President of the British Fantasy Society, and S. T. Joshi once stated of Campbell, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."

M.R. James (Montague Rhodes James) initially wrote his ghost tales to be read to groups of friends on Christmas Eve, and these were later published in various collections. He was a scholar and academic first and foremost, and many of his stories reflect his background and include characters with an interest in medieval or biblical studies or archaeology. Many of his plots revolve around an everyday situation in which the protagonist happens upon a mysterious object or wanders into a supernatural event, often led to their own demise by their own curiosity. Collections of his stories with similar titles abound, and include Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. Several of his short stories-A Warning to the Curious and Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad-have been adapted for TV, and Casting the Runes was adapted as the movie The Night of the Demon, a personal childhood favourite of mine.

Hometown:

Los Angeles

Date of Birth:

October 5, 1952

Place of Birth:

Liverpool, England

Education:

Liverpool University

Website:

http://www.clivebarker.info

Table of Contents

Introduction by Steve Dillon

The Address by Ramsey Campbell

Casting the Runes by M.R. James

All Aboard by Christopher Golden

The Piggyback Man by Steve Vernon

The Circle Line by Martin Livings

When Push Comes to Shove by Paul Kane

They All Come Through London in the End by Alan Baxter

Ismail’s Expulsion by Brian Craddock

Four Turns by Raven McAllister

The Deep Beneath by Matthew R Davis

Under a Furious Moon by Dan Rabarts

The Toll by Mark Allan Gunnells

The Sun Never Sets in the West by Darren Koziol & Ben Sullivan

Trackers by Lee Murray

Bon Voyage, Voyage by Amdi Silvestri

Fractured Reality by Robert Mammone

Ash and Darkness by Pete Sutton

Train Wreck by Noel Osualdini

Playing with Fire by Jonathan Cromack

The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

Salvation is Closed by Marty Young

The Shiraz Train by Steve Dillon

The Last Train by G.M. Hague

Introduction to The Midnight Meat Train by Mark Alan Miller

The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker

Aboard the Midnight Meat Train—Clive Barker’s Urban Nightmare by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn