News
7th December 2023:
Rosalie Parker's Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories has received a glowing review from the British Fantasy Society. Tori Borne writes:
"Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories is an enigmatic tour de force, which does weird right ... this collection is superb."
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14th August 2023:
Ian Holloway has reviewed Rosalie Parker's Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories at Wyrd Britain:
"There is an empathetic delicacy to her writing that infuses these stories of place, of love lost and found and of family in its many and varied forms with a feminine focus that imparts a sinuous and thoughtful subtlety to the underlying frisson of the strange."
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14th June 2023:
Aurealis # 161 has published a wonderful review of Rosalie Parker's Dream Fox, writing:
"Parker’s perfect, observant prose charms readers deeper into the strange worlds she constructs. Those worlds are not always safe, especially for the protagonists. With themes in overlapping spaces between horror, paranormal and fantasy, most stories are comfortably unsettling. A loitering unease, a tenacious mood of what-if, and a rich echo of marginal realities infuse the storylines... A swag of stories to entertain, provoke and linger."
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2nd June 2023:
Michael Dirda writes today in The Washington Post, "In the emotionally complex title story of Rosalie Parker’s Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories, a young girl’s empathy for the foxes hunted by her farmer father culminates in a shocking finale and an even more shocking metamorphosis. Besides Parker’s own excellent short fiction, this volume also incorporates “Mary Belgrove’s Book of Unusual Experiences.” In one of those experiences, a weekend at a snowbound country house mixes flirtation, possible adultery, an eerie portrait and an atmosphere of growing unease. What more could you want?"
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26th May 2023:
Dream Fox, the new collection of stories by Rosalie Parker has received a glowing review from David Longhorn at the Supernatural Tales website. He concludes: "a collection of strange stories that never fail to interest and, considered as a whole, represent a considerable creative achievement."
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29th March:
Rick Kleffel has interviewed Rosalie Parker about her new book, Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories, for his Narrative Species blog. There's also a very positive review of the collection. He writes: "a perfect example of all the strengths of the modern 'strange' short story format. Parker writes an up-to-date take on the classic weird/strange short story in a thoroughly enjoyable collection that capitalizes on the strengths of the format. The writing is superb and varied, though united by an observable feminine vision. Put all of this in a gorgeously designed hardcover, and you have the makings of a book to read and re-read."
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26th February 2023:
From The Endless Bookshelf on Twitter: 'current reading: Rosalie Parker, Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories, Tartarus Press, [2023]. A beautiful book. Collection of 18 stories, plus “Mary Belgrove’s Book of Unusual Experiences” . . . to read “Mary Belgrove’s Book ...” is to find an unexpected, fascinating book on a bargain shelf or at a rummage sale, & learn that the world is not such a tidy, rational place [the vanity press frame story is very funny, too].'
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15th February 2023:
Rosalie Parker's new collection of short stories, Dream Fox, is published by Tartarus Press, The book is published as a signed, limited edition hardback, and ebook.
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27th January 2023:
Rosalie Parker's short story 'Fear' is published in On A Dark, Raging Sea, stories inspired by the band Low, published by Exile in the Margins.
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1st December 2022:
Parker has co-edited (with R.B. Russell and Mark Valentine), and provided entries for Literary Hauntings: A Ghost Story Gazetteer. It is a guide to the real-life locations for great fictional ghost stories. The first edition, a hardback limited to 350 copies has already sold out, but it is now available as a paperback.
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8th August 2022:
Parker's story ‘The Walled Garden: A Fable’ is now available in Fabulous Aesop from Zagava.
Also from Zagava is Grotequeries, stories inspired by the writer L.A. Lewis, containing Parker's stories ‘Aircrew’ and ‘Bipolarity’.
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29th July 2022:
Parker's story, 'Dear John', from her collection Through the Storm, is read at EnCrypted Classic Horror on Youtube by Jasper L'Estrange.
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11th April 2022:
A great review for Rosalie Parker's short story collection, Damage, in the new edition of Aurealis (#149):
"With a leery eye on the unusual and the irrational in everyday life, the stories in this collection yank the reader in with an unyielding grasp. From orphaned children to scheming confidence tricksters, characters demonstrate Rosalie Parker’s skill at immediate definition of people, place and plot. . . Readers who enjoy eerie and thoughtful stories will adore this compilation. Damage is a collection of intriguing, strange stories by a writer who flexes their narrative power with superb command."
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10th April 2022:
An older review, but only just noticed, at Rick Kleffel's Narrative Species blog, for Through the Storm. Rick writes approvingly that the book is:
"...a collection of short stories that embrace the form with a sense of poetry, urgency, variety and intensity to evoke a carousel of emotions of in the reader."
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12th March 2022:
Parker's short story 'All Talk' is now available in Supernatural Tales 49.
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25th December 2021:
Parker's short story 'Dream Fox' appears in They're Out to Get You, edited by Johnny Mains, published by TK Pulp.
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29th November 2021:
Parker's short story collection, Damage, first published by PS Publishing, is now available from Tartarus Press as a paperback here.
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28th November 2021:
Rosalie's short story "Madre De Dios" has been printed by Raphus Press in Brazil in a hardback edition of only 90 copies. The book contains the story in both English and Portuguese. It is available from Ziesings.com.
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26th August 2021:
Rosalie's short story "Homecoming" appears in the Black Shuck Books anthology Dreamland: Other Stories, available here.
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6th July 2021:
Through the Storm has received a great review in Aurealis #142:
"A substantial aspect of this collection is the calibre of the prose. This speculative fiction is of high literary merit, with focus on tone and voice that eschews shlock tropes. Don’t look here for celebrations of gore and violence; the horror is insidious in cerebral language.
A feast for lovers of high-brow macabre."
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30th April 2021:
Parker's short story 'Home Comforts' has been included in the anthology, Infra Noir 2021, published by Zagava Books.
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16th March 2021:
Through the Storm has received a great review at Wyrd Britain:
". . . she is always at her best when she's letting her imagination fly off in the most unexpected directions at which point her work resonates most loudly and shimmers with uncanny life."
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5th January 2021:
Through the Storm has received a great review at Gingernuts of Horror:
"Social commentary is one of the things Parker does very well. She is unafraid to look the present in the face and shine a light on the sections of society that have been the worst hit by the UK’s raging, decade-long war on poor people.. . . Parker’s fiction acts as a kind of literary sorbet, refreshing and full of zing without weighing down the stomach, although the reader should resist the temptation to bolt too much at once, as many of these stories are best when savoured slowly."
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11th November 2020:
Rosalie Parker's story 'The Decision', is included in Supernatural Tales 45 (winter 2020/21)
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25th September 2020:
Parker's new collection of short stories, Through the Storm, is now available for pre-order through PS Publishing. It will be published in October.
A video trailer can be watched here.
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10th September 2020:
Parker has contributed readings to Phantom Cities, an album of music by The Sodality of the Shadows, available here.
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28th May 2020:
Parker's fourth collection of short stories, Through the Storm, is due for publication by PS Publishing, September 2020. Details to follow...
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26th May 2020:
Rosalie Parker's story, 'Holiday Reading' has been selected for Best New Horror 30.
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4th December 2018:
'The Moor', a new story by Rosalie Parker, is now available in Supernatural Tales 39.
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1st November 2018:
The Old Knowledge has been very positively reviewed by Aurealis magazine: "Parker has a way of crafty spinning that makes each story work."
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25th October 2018:
Sparks from the Fire is recommended Hallowween reading from Michael Dirda in the Washington Post.
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20th October 2018:
Rosalie Parker's story "Chimera" is published in Great British Horror 3: For Those in Peril, edited by Steve J Shaw, published by Black Shuck Books.
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7th September 2018:
Sparks from the Fire has been very favourably reviewed by Mario Guslandi at the British Fantasy Society. He concludes: "...there is not a single bad story in the whole book. Should you decide to secure a copy rest assured that you won’t regret it."
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6th September 2018:
Tartarus Press have reprinted The Old Knowledge as a paperback. The new edition contains an extended version of "The Cook's Story".
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12th August 2018:
Publishers Weekly have given Sparks from the Fire a fine review:
"Her treatment of the fantastic is often so light and ambiguous that stories in which it does manifest are of a piece with tales such as 'Jetsam' and 'Job Start', sensitive character sketches whose celebration of life’s unforeseen surprises will appeal to fantasy fans as much as the book’s more overtly uncanny tales. Parker proves herself a subtle and versatile writer."
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20th June 2018:
New from Swan River Press is Sparks from the Fire, a collection of strange short stories by Rosalie Parker. A dust jacketed hardback of 202 pages, there is also a numbered edition of 100 available while supplies last.
"There are many ways to tell a story . . . It is a question of choosing the right one." – "Sparks from the Fire"
The stories in Sparks from the Fire explore a wide variety of familiar characters and settings, yet there is always something else — a shadow world that haunts, disturbs, and threatens.
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31st May 2018:
Rosalie Parker's tale "Waiting" is the lead story in The Book of the Sea, edited by Mark Beech, published by Egaeus Press.
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23rd July 2017:
'The Dreaming' by Rosalie Parker has been published in Black Static # 59. It has been reviewed by Des Lewis who writes "...one of the most unexpected stories I have ever read, in a delightfully low-key and memorable fashion."
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30th April 2017:
'The Attempt' by Rosalie Parker is published in Shadows and Tall Trees 7. Des Lewis writes in his Gestalt Real-Time Review: "Once I had finished this relatively short story, I thought to myself: this is a classic, one that we shall all remember reading for the first time."
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5th April 2017:
Damage is on the longlist for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, 2017.
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22nd February 2017:
Rosalie Parker has been interviewed by Angela Slatter in anticipation of her story, 'The Attempt' being published in Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
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4th January 2017:
At the Narrative Species site, Rick Kleffel writes of Rosalie Parker's short story collection, Damage: "Love and beauty share the stage with distilled terror."
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16th December 2016: Publishers Weekly review Damage by Rosalie Parker, "... showing her dexterity with a variety of different storytelling approaches ... Skillfully told in clear, simple prose, these slice-of-life stories entertain with their evocation of ordinary—and sometimes extraordinary—possibilities."
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26th November 2016: Rosalie Parker reads her short story "The Attempt" at the Weekend of Weird at Loughborough University. Additionally, the documentary, Robert Aickman: Author Strange Tales will be shown at the conference.
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1st November 2016: Damage has received a very positive review at SFRevu: '... elegant and perceptive narrative style ... a high degree of eclecticism in her choice of subjects, atmospheres, and genres.'
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20th October 2016: Parker's short story collection Damage is Michael Dirda's recommended Halloween reading in The Washington Post today.
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18th October 2016: Rosalie Parker's story 'The Bronze Statuette' has been published in Supernatural Tales 33.
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24th September 2016: Filming has begun on the opening sequences of The Dark Return of Time with a script by Rosalie Parker, Todd Niemi and Raymond Russell. The filming has been reported in The Sun, The Star and Hello magazine.
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23rd September 2016: A new collection of short stories by Rosalie Parker, Damage, has been launched at Fantasycon. Published by PS Publishing, A trailer is available to be viewed here. The book is available for order at the PS Publishing website.
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8th August 2016: 'Homecraft" by Rosalie Parker will be published in the forthcoming anthology Uncertainties, to be published by Swan River Press in August 2016.
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9th January 2016: Coverdale: A Year in the Life, a new film by Rosalie Parker with R.B. Russell will be released on 10th February 2015. The premiere will be held at The Garden Rooms, Tennants, Leyburn on Tuesday 9th February, 6:30pm. A trailer is available on youtube.
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9th November 2015: Rosalie Parker and Ray Russell won a World Fantasy Award last night in Saratoga Springs for Tartarus Press.
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28th October 2015: On Thursday Nov 5th at 9:30pm the Robert Aickman documentary made by Rosalie Parker and R.B. Russell will be screened at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs
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September 2015: A new short story collection, Damage, has been accepted by P.S. Publishing, to be published 2016/17.
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September 2015: The Dark Return of Time, a filmscript by Rosalie Parker, R.B. Russell and Todd Niemi is scheduled for filming to start in London and Paris in Spring 2016.
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July 2015:
'Random Flight' from Terror Tales of Yorkshire has been reprinted in Best British Horror 2015 by Salt Publishing.
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9th July 2015:
World Fantasy Award Nomination: Ray Russell and Rosalie Parker are nominated for Tartarus Press in the Special Award: Non-professional category. Two Tartarus Press books are additionally nominated.
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April 2015:
'Selkie: A Scottish Idyll' has been published in Supernatural Tales, 21.
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9th April 2015: Strange Tales V, edited by Rosalie Parker, is now published by Tartarus Press.
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14th January 2014: The Old Knowledge receives a very fine review from Rick Kleffel at The Agony Column: "The stories to be found in this slim volume are chilling to be sure, and engrossing in every way. But there's a bigger picture than just the stories themselves. These stories take us not to a different world, but a different vision of this world."
Rick also interviews Rosalie and Ray from Tartarus here.
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21st October 2014: A trailer is now available for a Robert Aickman film, made by Rosalie Parker and R.B. Russell. It can be watched on Youtube. It is due to be premiered at the World Fantasy Convention in early November
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22nd September 2014: Rosalie Parker's story "Random Flight" is published in Terror Tales of Yorkshire, edited by Paul Finch, published by Gray Friar Press.
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19th March 2014: Rosalie Parker's story "Untouchable" has been published in The Horror Fields, published by Morpheus Tales.
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20th January 2014: Strange Tales IV, edited by Rosalie Parker, is now published by Tartarus Press.
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26th June 2013: Rosalie Parker's story "The Thames" is published in Terror Tales of London, edited by Paul Finch, published by Gray Friar Press.
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April 2013: Rosalie Parker's story "The Nurse’s Letter: An Addendum to ‘The White People’" is published in Faunus 27, the journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen.
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20th February 2013: M.R. Cosby's Strange Designs blog includes 'Rain' by Rosalie Parker at number eight in his top ten short stories in horror, complied to celebrate Women in Horror Month.
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4th February 2013: Rosalie Parker's story "Oracle", set in the Yorkshire Dales, is published in Dark World. All profits from this new collection of ghost stories will be used to help the Amala Children’s Home, funding a three-week working trip in July 2013, and being donated directly to the cause.
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28th November 2012: Robinson is shortly to publish an ebook of a mini-anthology, The Unexpected, containing Rosalie Parker's short story 'In the Garden'.
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5th November 2012: Last night in Toronto, Rosalie Parker (along with Ray Russell) received the World Fantasy Award for Tartarus Press.
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1st October 2012: There is a new, favourable review of The Old Knowledge at The Pan Review.
1st September: A second printing of The Old Knowledge is now available from the Swan River Press.
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31st May 2012: Rosalie Parker has been interviewed by John Kenny at the Swan River Press.
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21st July 2011: The Old Knowledge is reviewed by The Stars at Noonday: "... straightforward, unassuming prose belies a keen psychological insight. Old knowledge is never without its secrets and mysteries, and neither is The Old Knowledge."
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9th July 2011: The Old Knowledge is now available as an ebook direct from Tartarus Press or Amazon.
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16th February, 2011: The new issue of Black Static includes a good review for The Old Knowledge. Peter Tennant writes: ". . . a beautifully produced collection of nine stories by Rosalie Parker, in which themes of ancient knowledge intrud[e] into the modern world. . . My favourite out of all that’s on offer, there’s a delightful ambiguity to ‘The Cook’s Story’ . . . The atmosphere of a country house and the life of wealthy people are brought to vivid life . . . with a sense of the madness and alienation that’s bubbling away beneath the surface and just waiting to explode."
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5th January: A fine review by Kate Haynes in the Ghostly Company Newsletter: "The Old Knowledge is perfect reading for a winter's afternoon when the light is beginning to fail. Curl up by the fire in your holiday cottage, open a good bottle of red, and enjoy."
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1st December: Peter Tennant describes "In the Garden" as a "creepy little delight" in his review of the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #21 in Case Notes for Black Static.
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28th December: The Old Knowledge is reviewed by Mario Guslandi at The Short Review:"Well crafted prose hinting in soft tones at the darker side of reality" , and Rosalie Parker is also interviewed on the same site.
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21st November: A new review of The Old Knowledge has been published at The Black Abyss.
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13th November 2010, A good review at Publishers Weekly for The Old Knowledge: "Parker shows considerable skill at creating dramatic tension and moods of menace that will appeal to fans of subtly told tales of the macabre."
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21st September: The Old Knowledge is currently subject to a "real-time" review by Des Lewis.
"This book, despite its disarmingly simple pure prose style and traditional-seeming supernatural plots, is possibly more intriguing than many a book with dense textured styles and ostensibly complicated plots. An eye-opener for me."
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18th September, 2010: The Old Knowledge, published by The Swan River Press is now available. It was launched at Fantasycon 17th September, 2010, at the Britannia Hotel, Nottingham.
At the same convention Rosalie Parker attended the signing for the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #21 which contains her story "In The Garden" from The Fifth Black Book of Horror.
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30th January 2010: Rosalie Parker's story 'In The Garden' is singled out for praise at Tales from the Black Abyss in a review of The Fifth Black Book of Horror. It is described as "an almost poetic short piece full of emotion and atmosphere" and later as "elegiac".
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29th September 2009: Rosalie Parker's story 'In The Garden' is now available in The Fifth Black Book of Horror, edited by Charles Black, September, 2009.
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20th June, 2009: Rosalie Parker's short story 'The Picture' is published in Supernatural Tales 15, edited by David Longhorn.
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29th May 2009: 'Spirit Solutions' is now available in The Black Veil.
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