- Ash-Tree Press
Ash-Tree Press is a Canadian company that publishes supernatural and horror literature.
The press has reprinted notable collections of ghostly stories by such writers as
A. N. L. Munby ,L. T. C. Rolt ,Margery Lawrence , and Eleanor Scott; has published newly edited collections of supernatural tales by such writers as John Metcalfe, Marjorie Bowen, and Frederick Cowles; and has produced multivolume sets of the complete supernatural short stories ofSheridan Le Fanu ,E. F. Benson ,H. Russell Wakefield ,Russell Kirk , andA. M. Burrage . In 2001, it published an important collected edition ofM. R. James 's ghost stories and related writings.In addition, Ash-Tree Press has published new collections of stories by contemporary authors and a series of original anthologies. Awards for these include the 2002
British Fantasy Award for best collection for "After Shocks" by Paul Finch [ [http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/awardlisting.html#2002 British Fantasy Society Award Winners: 2002] ] and the 2004International Horror Guild Award and 2005World Fantasy Award for the anthology "Acquainted with the Night", edited by Christopher and Barbara Roden. [ [http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2004 IHG Award Recipients: 2004] ] [ [http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2005.html 2005 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees] ]Ash-Tree Press itself has received the 1997 Special Award, Non-Professional, from the World Fantasy Awards [ [http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/1997.html 1997 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees] ] and the 1999 Specialty Press Award of the
Horror Writers Association . [ [http://www.horror.org/specpressawd.htm Specialty Press Award] ]Christopher and Barbara Roden are the proprietors of both Ash-Tree Press and
Calabash Press , the latter of which publishes fiction and nonfiction related toSherlock Holmes .References
Further reading
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Michael Dirda , " [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7816-2004Oct28.html Ghost Stories] ", "Washington Post", Oct. 31, 2004, p. BW15.External links
* [http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/ashtreecurrent.html Ash-Tree Press]
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