Friday, April 7, 2006

Reviews



(image courtesy of Chris Hulme)

Commenting on ‘Out on a Limb’ (Acquainted with the Night)

“I relished Gary's parade of malformed apparitions.”

— RAMSEY CAMPBELL

“(This line from early in the story) is one of the clearest expressions of the ontological dimension of supernatural fiction I have encountered.”

— JIM ROCKHILL (FROM A REVIEW IN ALL HALLOWS)

Commenting on ‘Estate of the Nation’ (Midnight Street)

“The story eases you into the main scenario, and intensifies with each sentence. The author really pulls you into the story and you can’t help but sympathize with the main character. A real ‘chair edge gripper’.”.

— CHRIS CARTWRIGHT
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Commenting on my chapbook ‘Breaking Hearts’

“Gary’s writing is peppered with metaphors and similes that really drag you into the minds of his characters…Great descriptive work and characters you recognise add a sense of creepy truth to the work.”

— ROB SPALDING
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Commenting on ‘My Burglar’ (Nemonymous 4)

“…a burglar breaks in the house of a beautiful woman only to find himself caught in a spiral of desire for her, is a graphic and quite effective story, written in a very neat style, certainly one of the best tales in Nemo 4.”

— MARIO GUSLANDI
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Commenting on ‘The Forever Doll’ (Fusing Horizons)

“But the best story in this collection by a long mile…Tapping brilliantly into childhood fears and the talismanic qualities of even the simplest images, this story frightened the hell out of me.”

— ADRIAN FRY
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Commenting on ‘The Great Wall’ (Fusing Horizons)

“The metaphor has no one clear meaning – if anything, there are two quite contradictory meanings – and that may well be why it is such a memorable story.”

— STEVE REDWOOD
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Commenting on ‘The Man in the Chimney’ (Fusing Horizons)

Sexually tweaked and psychologically freaked…McMahon’s tight-as-a-glove first person keeps us pressed up against the main character and her craziness

— BARTH ANDERSON
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Bio




Gary McMahon lives, works and writes in West Yorkshire. He shares his life with a wife, a son, and the nagging stories that won’t give him any peace until he writes them.

If you wish to contact me, please email me at:


Thank you,

Gary McMahon.

Publications


1998

Neighbours - Nasty Piece of Work (ed. David A. Green)

1999

Long Buried - Roadworks: Tales from the Hard Road (ed. Trevor Denyer)

2003

The Forever Doll - Fusing Horizons Issue 1 (ed. Gary Fry; Gray Friar Press)

2004

Our Kind - Bare Bone #5 (ed. Kevin Donihe)

Her Sister's Dance - Maelstrom Volume 1 (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

Breaking Hearts (chapbook) - D Press

My Burglar - Nemonymous 4 (ed. Des Lewis)

Monsoon Warning - Whispers of Wickedness, Summer 2004 (D Press)

Family Unit - Whispers of Wickedness, Autumn 2004

Alternatives - Jupiter: Himilia, Autumn 2004 (ed. Ian Redman)

The Makeshift - Thirteen, August 2004 (ed. Andrew Hannon)

Bill and Rob's Big Score - Dark Corners #2 (ed. Tim Johnson)

The Man in the Chimney - Fusing Horizons, Spring 2004 (ed. Gary Fry)

The Great Wall - Fusing Horizons, Summer 2004 (ed. Gary Fry)

Lay by My Side - Fusing Horizons, Autumn 2004 (ed. Gary Fry)

In a Dark Corner - Black Petals #28, Summer 2004 (ed. Kenneth James Crist)

The Burning Place - The Horror Express #3, Winter (ed. Mark Shemmans)

Takeaway - Blood Moon Rising, March/April (ed. Shoshana Strier)

Out on a Limb - Acquainted With The Night (ed. Barbara and Christopher Roden; Ash Tree Press)

2005

Long Lost Weekend - Fusing Horizons #5 (ed. Gary Fry)

Razorface and Knucklebone - Lunar Harvest (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

Slow Train to Dawn - Nocturne 2 (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

Wet Nurse - Lighthouse IV: Stephen King Special Issue I (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

Just Up Ahead and Off the Road - Lighthouse V: Stephen King Special Issue II (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

The Forgotten Prisoner - Potter's Field (ed. Cathy Burburuz)

A Grown Woman - Bare Bone #7 (ed. Kevin Donihe; Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Why Ghosts Wail: A Short Memoir - Bare Bone #8 (ed. Kevin Donihe; Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Like a Stone - Bernie Herrmann's Manic Sextet (ed. Gary Fry; Gray Friar Press)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Poe's Progeny (ed. Gary Fry; Gray Friar Press)

New Science - Nemonymous 5 (ed. Des Lewis)

Making Room - Whispers of Wickedness, Autumn 2005 (D Press)

Unicorn - Here & Now (ed. Jenny Barber; Braden Press)

Estate of the Nation - Midnight Street Issue 4, Spring 2005 (ed. Trevor Denyer)

Amicus Homunculus - Scifantastic Vol 1, Issue 2 (ed. Sarah Dobbs)

2006

Distinguishing Marks - Nocturne 3.5 (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

Haunted cinema 33: Session 9 (article) - All Hallows (ed. Barbara Roden; Ash Tree Press)

Nowhere People - Supernatural Tales 10 (ed. David Longhorn)

Day of the Mask - Gods and Monsters (ed. Jason Andrew and Michael Dyer; Simian Books)

Save Us All - Dark Doorways (ed. James Cooper; Prufrock Press)

Intro: What My Writing Means to Me - Dark Doorways (ed. James Cooper; Prufrock Press)

Poe Pourri - When Graveyards Yawn (ed. Sean Wright; Crowswing Books)

Rough Cut (novella) -Pendragon Press

I See a Darkness - Lighthouse VI Stephen King Special Issue III (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

An article on the Jamesian model in modern fiction - The Ghosts and Scholars Newsletter Issue 10, September 2006

Meg O'Green Weeds - Beyond the Borderland Issue #2, December 2006 (ed. John B. Ford and Steve Lines; Rainfall Books)

The Knocking - Thrilling tales of Fantastic Adventure Issue #1, December 2006 (ed. John B. Ford and Steve Lines; Rainfall Books)

Interview with the author - The Faculty of Terror by John Probert (Gray Friar Press)

2007

Nine Lives - Love & Sacrifice (ed. Robert Pratten; Zen Films)

All Your Gods Are Dead (novella) - Humdruming

Something in the Way - Bare Bone #10 (ed. Kevin Donihe; Raw Screaming Dog Press)

The Sand King - All Hallows (ed. Barbara Roden; Ash tree Press)

For Future Presentation - Trails of Indiscretion (ed. Brian Koscienski; Fortress Publishing)

Wolf Dreams - Into the Dreamlands (ed. Jason Andrew and Michael Dyer; Simian Books)

The Shallow House - Lighthouse VII (ed. Paul Calvin Wilson; LMO)

Dirty Prayers (collection) - Gray Friar Press

My Grandfather's Ghosts - At Ease with the Dead (ed. Barbara and Christopher Roden; Ash Tree Press)

2008

Homebody - Dead Ends (ed. Steve Upham; Screaming Dreams)

Gaining a Loss - Midnight Street, issue #10 (ed. Trevor Denyer)



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Online Fiction

To Invocate His Aid - The Dark Krypt

Waitress - Dead Penguins

In The Realm of Wishful Thinking - Dead Penguins

Loose Ends - Dead Penguins

What's In the Box? - Dred

Angelo Rosso - Kiss the Witch

The Searching - Reflection's Edge

City of Glass - Sien Und Werden

Everything I Never Wanted - Wanderings

My London Story - Whispers of Wickedness

Call Me - Whispers of Wickedness

Spite - Whispers of Wickedness

State Of The Estate - Whispers of Wickedness

Small Blue Something - Whispers of Wickedness

Untitled Homage - Whispers of Wickedness

The Sudden Journey - Whispers of Wickedness

Havana Break - Whispers of Wickedness