The Celestial Omnibus

The Panda Book of Horror

Miss Wildthyme & Friends Investigate

The Obverse Book of Ghosts

News and Headlines from the Obverse

The Obverse book of Ghosts Announced

Think ghosts just hang around spooky old houses or crumbling graveyards?

Think again.

Obverse Books is proud to announce a new collection of contemporary ghost stories that will unnerve and terrify. The Obverse Book of Ghosts collects 14 tales of spectral terror, guaranteed to leave you awake at night.

Editor Cavan Scott says: “The Obverse Book of Ghosts follows in the phantasmagorical footsteps of those classic supernatural anthologies of the past, but drags the unquiet dead screaming into the 21st Century. After all, isn’t it about time we were once again afraid of things that go bump in the night?”

Miss Wildthyme Investigates Released

The third book in the Iris Wildthyme series - Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate has now been released. Described as a set of four mystery novellas which, when combined also make one single mystery novel, the writing line-up is Cody Schell, Jim Smith, Nick Wallace and Stuart Douglas, with stories featuring Sir ArthurConan-Doyle's Professor Challenger, Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Manleigh Halt Irregulars and Senor 105 as seen in previous Iris collections and - of course - Iris and Panda themselves.

Book of Horror Released

The Panda Book of Horror was released on 12 December 2009! Buy a copy from our Catalogue pages now!

Book of Horror Submissions Now Closed

Thanks to everyone who submitted but we've closed the book as it were for submissions for The Panda Book of Horror. General Iris related pitches are still gratefully received but with future books in mind.

Interview with a Panda

Panda had his first ever interview published by Dan Berry of Unreality SF - you can read it here.

A second Iris collection is announced!

Having sold enough copies of The Celestial Omnibus to prove to ourselves that there's a market for Iris fiction, Obverse Books are delighted to announced a seconed volume, 'The Panda Book of Horror'!

Slated for release in late 2009, The PBofH (as it will be known) will feature all new stories by an all new set of authors, including a couple of stories from the submissions pile - so please do submit somthing via the form on the website!

The first review!

The Shiny Shelf team win the race to provide us with our first review - and it's a good one (or we wouldn't be mentioning it, obviously!). Click here to read it...

The Full Celestial Omnibus Cover

The full wrapround cover for the 'Celestial Omnibus', created by Mark Michalowski from artwork supplied by June Hudson and Anthony Dry, can be seen here...