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ORIGINAL HORROR STORIES

Oldstyle Tales is not solely interested in

the speculative fiction of past generations, and centuries;

we also invest in the future of our broad and expanding genre.

Every year Michael writes two or three spook tales in a feature called "A Ghost Story for Hallowe'en." M. R. James was famous for his annual weird stories, which became a Cambridge tradition. Whether you read Michael's yearly stories, write your own, or

read your own, it is our wish that you will start a tradition of creating or consuming

new speculative fiction as an homage to the past and a gift to the future.

Hallowe'en, like Christmas, is a lovely time to do this, and we hope you will follow along and enjoy "A Ghost Story for Hallowe'en" with a cup of hot tea, hot cider, or cold whiskey

on one of those autumn nights when the leaves clatter on the sidewalk with

mirthless laughter, and the shadows blur with the dark, faceless sky.

THE YELLOW BOOKE

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A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HORROR,

WEIRD FICTION, AND GHOST STORIES

WRITTEN BY OLDSTYLE TALES PRESS READERS

NOTE: We are not currently accepting submissions for "The Yellow Booke"

If you want to contribute to the weird and the horrible, we would love to help with that too. The Yellow Booke is an annual (or biannual, depending on the year) publication for living writers -- amateurs, professionals, and fans alike -- to showcase their speculative

fiction and critical reviews. Horror, weird tales, dark fantasy, ghost stories,

psychological terror, and supernaturalism are all welcome, as are any

short essays examining your favorite horror stories.

R E A D P A S T E D I T I O N S:

SWORDS, SNAKES, & SHIPWRECKS

Culled in part from his many contributions to "The Yellow Booke," we are honored to offer a slight collection of the off-beat stories of Thomas Olivieri. The stories, poems, commentary, and images in this slight collection have been designed to return you to those strange old times. They are not particularly horrific or terrifying -- rather, they are uneasy, uncanny, and gently unsettling, harkening back to the folklore of fairies and saints, knights and dragons, mead halls and castles, masquerades and Hallow-Mass gatherings.

R E A D S W O R D S, S N A K E S, A N D S H I P W R E C K S

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