Falling into Heaven: the Maynard Sims Library. Vol. 6

Publisher Marketing: The Maynard Sims Library presents the finest in traditional English ghost stories and unsettling tales of quiet fear. Falling Into Heaven is a collection of short stories. Ghosts, demons and the fears and dreads that cannot be explained. Originally published in limited edition hardback it is now available as e-book and paperback. CONTENTS Introduction by William P Simmons 1. IMAGES 2. DEAD MEN'S SHOES 3. A VICTORIAN POT DRESSER 4. SAND CASTLES 5. CALLING DOWN THE LIGHTNING 6. SOAKING WET WITHOUT A BOAT 7. SALVATION 8. SHORTCUTS 9. CAVISO GAMO 10. OCTOBER CRIES 11. DANCERS 12. FLOUR WHITE AND SPINDLE THIN 13. GLIMPSES 14. SLIDING DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLIP "After experimenting with different ways of producing shivers in their previous collection Incantations, the authors have reached a new equilibrium in their writing style, cleverly manipulating hard material with a delicate touch and effectively blending different shades of terror into a deliciously frightening potion. Drink up, dear reader, you won't regret it!" THE ALIENONLINE "Maynard & Sims. The names are now inseparable and it cannot be too long before they are a permanent fixture on the shelves of the more discerning bookshops...this collection shows that they have really come of age. Maynard & Sims may write traditional horror stores but that is no mean feat; they are restrained when others attempt to achieve the shock factor." BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY It could be that the best thing to do would be to give as little information about this amazing collection as possible. Hints of plot and glimpses of setting are unnecessary once this book is in your hands. Even if your intention is only to dip into a few brief stories or just to get a taste of it, Falling Into Heaven will have you, ever so gently, by the throat; what started as a quick skim will find you hours later, eyes glued to the page, fingernails gouging into the magnificent cover. Maynard and Sims will have you and it is useless to struggle. LISA DUMOND Maynard & Sims are seasoned entertainers, and like all such they know how to bring down the curtain. The last story in the book, 'Sliding Down the Slippery Slip', is a showstopper and one of the finest horror stories I've read recently. The first person narration of a disturbed soul, its obliqueness brings to mind the rituals and ceremonies of Machen's classic tale The White People, but tainted with a perverse sexuality that is thoroughly modern, the story made all the more effective by the narrator's unreliability, with the hint that much of what happens could just be in her mind. It is a virtuoso performance, insidiously suggestive and rich in ambiguity, the ideal note on which to close this collection and proof of what these much underrated writers are capable of producing when at their best. PETER TENNANT See the Author Page at Amazon for Maynard Sims. See the author website at www.maynard-sims.com Contributor Bio:  Sims, Maynard MAYNARD SIMS www.maynard-sims.com Supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, Stronghold, and the three Department 18 books (www.dept18.com) Black Cathedral, Night Souls, and The Eighth Witch, have been published mass market and eBook in the USA. The fourth Department 18 book, A Plague Of Echoes, is for 2014, as is a standalone ghost story, Stillwater. The first four novels have been purchased by Amazon Publishing. They have completed Department 18 book 5. Thrillers include an adventure thriller, Dark Of The Sun, which is a 2013 publication. Falling Apart At The Edges, a crime thriller, Through The Sad Heart, an action thriller, Let Death Begin, a mystery thriller, are completed and being read, and they are working on the Dark Of The Sun sequel. Mick has written a screenplay based on the first two Department 18 books - this screenplay, his first, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. They have also written scripts based on The Eighth Witch, and some of their ghost stories. Mick has completed two original, commissioned screenplays, one a mainstream drama. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven in 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012. Novellas, Moths, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, and Double Act, have been published in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2007 respectively. His Other Son, a novella, is completed. Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, the anthology, Strange Tales, which won the World Fantasy Award 2004 and the Del Rey anthology, The Children Of Cthulhu. They worked as editors on the first seven volumes of Darkness Rising, and the two annual Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written essays. Email contact can be made at Mick@micksims.f9.co.uk FaceBook as Maynard Sims. LinkedIn under Maynard Sims Twitter on @micksims Google+ as Maynard Sims