We’ve been darned quiet recently, so today we mention a quick burst of illustrative genius, though not from us, but from that terrific Argentinian artist Sebastian Cabrol. Most of the quiet part was because old greydog has a new novel coming out very soon, and a revised collection – and one of anthologies he’s editing is also out. Which has sort of put a spike in some of the usual blethering. And we’ve been away at the coast a lot, running the longdogs. But autumn creeps in, and we are sliding back into action (we think).

(A quick catch up on the pups: Chilli, the Ghost Dog, has become addicted to Dentastix and now prefers them to her lamb bones. As for Django the Boy Wonder, he is much as always, except that we had to get rid of his favourite big red chair, as he had eaten too much of it. He’s sulking.)

Meanwhile, the author, greydog, has more bits dropping off him than usual, but has been slogging away. We’ll say more about his book ‘The Assassin’s Coin’, the larger project with artist/writer Alan M Clark of which it forms a part, and other stuff next week (audience falls unconscious). For now, we are delighted to say that the flagship anthology for Occult Detective Quarterly magazine is now available in print!

Edited by John Linwood Grant and Dave Brzeski, this is a massive 400 page anthology of new, longer supernatural fiction – novelettes and a novella – with everything from wild pulp adventure to subtle, almost Gothic hauntings. Plus grizzled PIs and serious occult detectives, an inventive rabbi in first century Palestine, an English country house mystery, street gangs of seventies New York and more:

Her Silks and Fine Array – Amanda DeWees
Farside – Willie Meikle
A Shadow Against the Stars – Charles R. Rutledge
Lazarus Come Forth – Robert Pohle
Ed Erdelac – Conquer Comes Correct
Mrs. Lillicrop Investigates – Bev Allen
Ritual Killings – Sam Edwards
Adrian Cole – At Midnight All the Agents
Fighters of Fear (a rare long essay on the subject from the nineties) – Mike Ashley

The book includes new commissioned b/w art, and the connection to today’s artist shout-out is that the cover is by Sebastian Cabrol…

SEBASTIAN CABROL

Fresh from an exhibition of his work in his home country, Sebastian provided us with a haunting image for the ODQP anthology, and one of the interior illustrations. Some of you may know that he also provided the memorable cover for Occult Detective Quarterly #4, and other interiors for the magazine.

Equally effective in colour and in black and white, Sebastian Cabrol’s art is possibly even more effective because he’s a genuine enthusiast of supernatural and horror literature – we’ve had a number of on-line chats with him which demonstrated this (and which also showed how crap our Spanish is compared to his command of English).

For those of you interested, we first interviewed him almost three years ago, discussing his work and his art, plus we ran a piece about working with Sebastian by another hugely creative talent from Argentina, Diego Arandojo:

http://greydogtales.com/blog/sebastian-cabrol-strange-secrets-of-south-america/

THE GATHERER

So we because we love both weird fiction and art, we had to have a quick mention on greydogtales of his latest project, which has a Kickstarter campaign running right now. ‘The Gatherer’ is an 80+ page graphic novel, drawn by Sebastian Cabrol, written by Emilia Pedrazzoli & Emiliano Pinto, and coloured and lettered by Omar Estévez. It looks fantastic.

“In the wee small hours of a cold winter’s night, a meteorite falls down on the dockland of a big city, bringing a dangerous alien parasite inside.

“Struggling to survive in an unknown and hostile environment, the sneaky visitor will take control of an eccentric tramp called Luis.

“The tramp will become the perfect vessel to give the despicable guest both power and body…”

‘The Gatherer’ has a strong film influence and an almost exclusively visual narrative resource is used to carry out the story. The intention is to pay tribute to cult genre movies both from the graphics and scripting standpoints. The book references horror and sci-fi films from the late seventies and the eighties, such as Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987), The Thing (Carpenter, 1982), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978), Possession (Zulawski, 1981) The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986), Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) and The Lords of Salem (Zombie, 2012).

There are tons of affordable rewards and extras, so go take a look now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1267908785/the-gatherer-vol-1-for-80s-cult-horror-fans/

Meanwhile, the new anthology ‘ODQ Presents’ can be purchased at this very moment from Amazon UK and Amazon US.