Bull Running For Girls by Allyson Bird (2008)

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Cover art by Vincent Chong

Click the cover to visit Allyson's site.

A selection of adventure/horror stories set in many locations, from the excitement and danger of bull running in Pamplona, to small town life in Madison County, U.S. Stories set amidst the bustle of Hong Kong, on The Silk Road in China and under a Hunter’s moon in Bordeaux. Then there are those which are much closer to home.

Table of contents :

In the Hall of the Mountain King
Shadow upon Shadow
Hunter’s Moon
The Bone Grinder
The Conical Witch
In the Wake of the Dead
Bull Running
The Caul Bearer
The Sly Boy Bar and Eatery
The Celestial Dragon
The Critic
Wings of Night
The Silk Road
Medium Strange
In a Pig’s Ear
A Poison Tree
Blood in Madness Ran
Dissolution
Deathside
Silence is Golden
Pompeii

Extract from The Caul Bearer :

When the tide was out you could walk all the way across Stoupe Beck Sands to Ravenscar; she’d done that often enough, but not today. Many a wreck lay off the Ravenscar headland, hundreds of years of them, sailors and fishermen had been washed up on that shore, and their bodies harvested by the scavengers of the deep. Men in their pale mottled skin with slivers of flesh hanging from them. They were so rotten you could peel out the spine of the fishermen as easily as with fish.

Allyson Bird's Screaming Dreams

This link will take you to Laird Barron's review of Bull Running For Girls at The Imago Suite

Laird Barron recently won a Shirley Jackson award in America and is very much respected.

[Jaqhama]

I ordered a copy from Ally and liked it.

I wrote a review for a sci-fi website.
I'll have to copy it over to here.

I like to support new authors.
I spend more time and money on new authors and small press publishers than established authors and major publishing companies.

If you like your stuff weird and eerie and dark, then Bull Running for Girls is well worth the investment.

Cheers: Jaq.