Rosalie Parker
Rosalie Parker is an author,[1] scriptwriter and editor who runs the Tartarus Press[2] with R. B. Russell.
Parker jointly won the World Fantasy Award "Special Award: Non-Professional" for publishing in 2002,[3] 2004[4] and 2012.[5] The Horror Writers Association gave Parker and Russell the "Excellence in Speciality Press Publishing" award for 2009.[6]
Her anthology, Strange Tales, won the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.[7]
Parker's first collection of short stories, The Old Knowledge, was published in 2010. Her short story "In the Garden" was selected by Stephen Jones for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (Robinson Publishing, 2010). "Random Flight" was included in Best British Horror 2015. Her second collection, Damage was longlisted for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Parker's short fiction has been described by Michael Dirda in The Washington Post as "excellent".[8]
Parker is co-director/producer of Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales,[9] released May 2015, and Coverdale: A Year in the Life,[10] released February 2016.
Literary work
Short Story Collections by Parker
- The Old Knowledge and Other Stories, Swan River Press (Dublin), 2010. Reprinted 2012
- Damage, PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2016
- Sparks from the Fire, Swan River Press (Dublin), 2018.
- Through the Storm, PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2020
- Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories, Tartarus Press (Carlton, Coverdale, North Yorkshire), 2023
Short Stories written by Parker
- "Spirit Solutions", The Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths, Wordsworth Editions, 2008
- "In the Garden", The Fifth Black Book of Horror, Mortbury Press, 2009. Reprinted The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (Robinson Publishing, 2010)
- "Oracle", Dark World, Tartarus Press, 2013
- "The Nurse’s Letter: An Addendum to ‘The White People’", Faunus 27, The Friends of Arthur Machen, 2013
- "The Thames", Terror Tales of London, Gray Friar Press, 2013
- "Untouchable", The Horror Fields, Morpheus Tales, 2014
- "Random Flight", Terror Tales of Yorkshire, Gray Friar Press, 2014
- "Selkie: A Scottish Idyll", Supernatural Tales 29, 2015
- "Homecraft", Uncertainties, Volume II, Swan River Press, 2016
- "The Bronze Statuette", Supernatural Tales 33, 2016
- "The Attempt", Shadows and Tall Trees 7, 2017
- "The Dreaming", Black Static # 59, 2017
- "Waiting", The Book of the Sea, Egaeus Press, 2018
- "Chimera", Great British Horror 3: For Those in Peril, Black Shuck Books, 2018
- "The Moor", Supernatural Tales, 39, November 2018
- "The Decision", Supernatural Tales 45, Winter 2020/21
- "Holiday Reading", Best New Horror 30, Winter 2020
- "Home Comforts", Infra Noir 2020, Zagava Books, 2021
- "Homecoming", Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books, 2021
- "Madre de Dios", Raphus Press, 2021
- "Dream Fox", They're Out to Get You, TK Pulp, 2021
- "All Talk", Supernatural Tales 49, 2022
- "Aircrew", Grotequeries, Zagava, 2022
- "Bipolarity", Grotequeries, Zagava, 2022
- "The Walled Garden: A Fable", Fabulous Aesop, Zagava, 2022
Works edited by Parker
- Tales from Tartarus, edited with R. B. Russell, Tartarus Press, 1995
- Ghost Stories, by Oliver Onions Tartarus Press, 2000
- Dromenon, The Best Weird Stories, by Gerald Heard, Tartarus Press, 2001
- The Collected Macabre Stories, by L.P. Hartley, Tartarus Press, 2001
- Various Temptations, by William Sansom, Tartarus Press, 2002
- Strange Tales I, Tartarus Press, 2003
- Tarnhelm, The Best Supernatural Stories, by Hugh Walpole, Tartarus Press, 2003
- The Suicide Club and Other Dark Adventures, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tartarus Press, 2004
- Father Raven and Other Tales, by A.E. Coppard, Tartarus Press, 2006
- The Sense of the Past, by Henry James, Tartarus Press, 2006
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles, by H.G. Wells, Tartarus Press, 2006
- Strangers and Pilgrims, by Walter de la Mare, Tartarus Press, 2007
- Strange Tales II, Tartarus Press, 2007
- The Triumph of Night and Other Tales, by Edith Wharton, Tartarus Press, 2008
- Sredni Vashtar, by Saki, Tartarus Press, 2008
- The Sandman and Other Night Pieces, by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Tartarus Press, 2008
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories, by Ambrose Bierce, Tartarus Press, 2008
- The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tartarus Press, 2008
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, by Washington Irving, Tartarus Press, 2009
- Strange Tales III, Tartarus Press, 2009
- Nightmare Touch, by Lafcadio Hearn, Tartarus Press, 2010
- Clarimonde and Other Stories, by Theophile Gautier, Tartarus Press, 2011
- Strange Tales IV, Tartarus Press, 2014
- Strange Tales V, Tartarus Press, 2015
- Green Thoughts, by John Collier, Tartarus Press, 2016
Articles Contributed to Magazines
- Aleister Crowley, Book and Magazine Collector 297, August 2008
- Margaret Atwood, Book and Magazine Collector 302, Christmas 2008
- Harry Crosby, Book and Magazine Collector 305, March 2009
- Alastair, Book and Magazine Collector 309, July 2009
- Count Stenbock, Book and Magazine Collector 317, February 2010
- A.E. Waite, Book and Magazine Collector 322, July 2010
- Edith Wharton, Book and Magazine Collector 323, August 2010
Film/video
- Coverdale: A Year in the Life, 2016 (co-director/producer)
- Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales, 2015 (co-director/producer)
- Intrusions: Looking After Aickman, 2014 (co-director/producer)
- Current 93: Live at Halifax Minster, 2014 (co-director/producer)
References
- ^ isfdb entry
- ^ Tartarus Press website
- ^ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2002 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2004 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2012 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stoker Awards Recipients: 2009
- ^ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2004 Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ What’s weird?, The Washington Post, June 1 2023
- ^ imdb entry
- ^ imdb entry
External links
- Rosalie Parker website
- Rosalie Parker interviewed by John Kenny
- Rosalie Parker interviewed (with Ray Russell) by Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column Podcast
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- The Architecture of Fear by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1988)
- The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1989)
- The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1990)
- Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1991)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1992)
- MetaHorror by Dennis Etchison (1993)
- Full Spectrum 4 by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (1994)
- Little Deaths by Ellen Datlow (1995)
- The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1996)
- Starlight 1 by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1997)
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998)
- Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (1999)
- Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas (2001)
- The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison (2002)
- The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2003)
- Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (2004)
- Acquainted with the Night by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (2005)
- The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye (2006)
- Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007)
- Inferno by Ellen Datlow (2008)
- Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (2009)
- American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub (2010)
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer (2011)
- The Weird by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2012)
- Exotic Gothic 4 by Danel Olson (2013)
- Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (2014)
- Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (2015)
- She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (2016)
- Dreaming in the Dark by Jack Dann (2017)
- The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (2018)
- Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo (2019)
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (2020)
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2021)
- The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)