{"id":1942,"date":"2016-05-15T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:01:52","slug":"swan-river-secrets-an-interview-with-brian-j-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/swan-river-secrets-an-interview-with-brian-j-showers\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan River Secrets: An Interview with Brian J Showers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gothic, the fantastic, the strange and the supernatural. These are our hunting grounds, and so it’s a pleasure to be interviewing Brian J Showers<\/strong><\/span> of Swan River Press<\/strong> today. An Irish publishing house, Swan River Press was founded by Brian in 2003, and boasts a wonderful range of classic and contemporary works in these fields.<\/p>\n

Before we go over to our guest, we were browsing the Swan River Press list and noticed mention of Dorothy Macardle<\/strong> (a fascinating woman in her own right and an Irish author). This interested us because in 1941 she wrote a novel called Uneasy Freehold<\/em> which was later adapted into a film called The Uninvited<\/em> (1944) starring Ray Milland<\/strong> and Ruth Hussey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Not only is this a great classic ghost film, but it was nominated for an Academy Award, and a few years ago it was chosen by Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> as one of his six favourite ‘fright flicks’. Here’s the trailer:<\/p>\n