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Read By Dawn: Volume One [Paperback]

Hartley (Author), Ad�le Hartley (Editor), Ramsey Campbell (Editor)

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Paperback: 251 pages
Publisher: Beautiful Books; 1 edition (Sep 1 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0954947673
ISBN-13: 978-0954947675
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 281 g

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Read By Dawn is the first in an annual international series of contemporary horror writing from new and established authors. The series is curated by Adèle Hartley, the influential Festival Director of âDead by Dawnâ, Scotland's International Horror Film Festival. Internationally acclaimed horror author Ramsey Campbell hosts Volume One with an introductory and closing piece, and provides a hugely atmospheric story, "A Place of Revelation".

Read By Dawn Volume One was launched in the UK at the 13th annual Dead by Dawn horror film festival in Edinburgh in April 2006. The volume contains fifteen stunning new stories from British and American horror writers, representing the best in contemporary horror writing.

âDead by Dawnâ is a member of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation and closely aligned with the annual Los Angeles and Montreal horror film festivals.

The Read By Dawn annual collections will be marketed via horror film networks all over the world, and are set to become the new standards in contemporary horror fiction.

Titles included in the collection:

A Place of Revelation and Outro copyright Â© Ramsey Campbell 2006

Before You Say Anything copyright Â© Yolanda Berry 2006

Bloodwalker copyright Â© Michele Lee Freel 2006

Body Hunt copyright Â© Chet Gottfried 2006

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 1943 copyright Â© Lavie Tidhar 2006

Evangeline copyright Â© Andrew J. Wilson 2006

Final Girl copyright Â© Joel J. Kuntonen 2006

For A Steal copyright Â© Stephanie Bedwell-Grime 2006

Frankie copyright Â© Matt Wedge 2006

House Broken copyright Â© James Reilly 2006

Last Day On The Job copyright Â© Jeff Jacobson 2006

Lessons copyright Â© Katherine Patterson 2006

Payday copyright Â© Bryce Stevens 2006

Popee copyright Â© Justin Madison 2006

Special Offer copyright Â© John L. Probert 2006

Stuck copyright Â© Samuel Minier copyright Â© 2006

The Bloom Of Decay copyright Â© Patricia MacCormack 2006

The Bride Wore Black and Zombie Fishing Trip copyright Â© Brian Rosenberger 2006

The Bridge Chamber copyright Â© Christine Hall 2006

The Colour In The Jar copyright Â© David McGillveray 2006

The Face In The Glass copyright Â© Brian G. Ross 2006

The Kylesku Trow copyright Â© Stefan Pearson 2006

The Little Girl Who Lives In The Woods copyright Â© Ralph Robert Moore 2006

The Seventh Green At Lost Lakes copyright Â© Scott Brendel 2006

The Sutherland King copyright Â© David Hutchison 2006

The Woman Who Coughs Up Flies copyright Â© David Turnbull 2006

What Betty Saw copyright Â© Joel Jacobs 2006.A Place of Revelation and Outro copyright Â© Ramsey Campbell 2006

Before You Say Anything copyright Â© Yolanda Berry 2006

Bloodwalker copyright Â© Michele Lee Freel 2006

Body Hunt copyright Â© Chet Gottfried 2006

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 1943 copyright Â© Lavie Tidhar 2006

Evangeline copyright Â© Andrew J. Wilson 2006

Final Girl copyright Â© Joel J. Kuntonen 2006

For A Steal copyright Â© Stephanie Bedwell-Grime 2006

Frankie copyright Â© Matt Wedge 2006

House Broken copyright Â© James Reilly 2006

Last Day On The Job copyright Â© Jeff Jacobson 2006

Lessons copyright Â© Katherine Patterson 2006

Payday copyright Â© Bryce Stevens 2006

Popee copyright Â© Justin Madison 2006

Special Offer copyright Â© John L. Probert 2006

Stuck copyright Â© Samuel Minier copyright Â© 2006

The Bloom Of Decay copyright Â© Patricia MacCormack 2006

The Bride Wore Black and Zombie Fishing Trip copyright Â© Brian Rosenberger 2006

The Bridge Chamber copyright Â© Christine Hall 2006

The Colour In The Jar copyright Â© David McGillveray 2006

The Face In The Glass copyright Â© Brian G. Ross 2006

The Kylesku Trow copyright Â© Stefan Pearson 2006

The Little Girl Who Lives In The Woods copyright Â© Ralph Robert Moore 2006

The Seventh Green At Lost Lakes copyright Â© Scott Brendel 2006

The Sutherland King copyright Â© David Hutchison 2006

The Woman Who Coughs Up Flies copyright Â© David Turnbull 2006

What Betty Saw copyright Â© Joel Jacobs 2006A Place of Revelation and Outro copyright Â© Ramsey Campbell 2006

Before You Say Anything copyright Â© Yolanda Berry 2006

Bloodwalker copyright Â© Michele Lee Freel 2006

Body Hunt copyright Â© Chet Gottfried 2006

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 1943 copyright Â© Lavie Tidhar 2006

Evangeline copyright Â© Andrew J. Wilson 2006

Final Girl copyright Â© Joel J. Kuntonen 2006

For A Steal copyright Â© Stephanie Bedwell-Grime 2006

Frankie copyright Â© Matt Wedge 2006

House Broken copyright Â© James Reilly 2006

Last Day On The Job copyright Â© Jeff Jacobson 2006

Lessons copyright Â© Katherine Patterson 2006

Payday copyright Â© Bryce Stevens 2006

Popee copyright Â© Justin Madison 2006

Special Offer copyright Â© John L. Probert 2006

Stuck copyright Â© Samuel Minier copyright Â© 2006

The Bloom Of Decay copyright Â© Patricia MacCormack 2006

The Bride Wore Black and Zombie Fishing Trip copyright Â© Brian Rosenberger 2006

The Bridge Chamber copyright Â© Christine Hall 2006

The Colour In The Jar copyright Â© David McGillveray 2006

The Face In The Glass copyright Â© Brian G. Ross 2006

The Kylesku Trow copyright Â© Stefan Pearson 2006

The Little Girl Who Lives In The Woods copyright Â© Ralph Robert Moore 2006

The Seventh Green At Lost Lakes copyright Â© Scott Brendel 2006

The Sutherland King copyright Â© David Hutchison 2006

The Woman Who Coughs Up Flies copyright Â© David Turnbull 2006

What Betty Saw copyright Â© Joel Jacobs 2006.

About the Author

Adèle Harley has directed âDead by Dawnâ, Scotlandâs International Horror Film Festival, for 13 years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A horror book not to be missed, April 5 2007

Joel Sutherland - See all my reviews

This review is from: Read By Dawn: Volume One (Paperback)

Read By Dawn: Volume 1

edited by Adele Hartley

hosted by Ramsey Campbell

With twenty-eight stories filling its pages, it would not have been surprising if a few of the stories in Read By Dawn: Volume 1 had missed the mark, fell flat or just plain old stunk. That's why I approached it with a deep sense of caution, ready to be disappointed by a few of the stories but hoping to find a few gems. The gems I found in spades; the disappointments I did not.

This book is that rare beast: a collection of horror stories so diverse from a group of international authors that come together and form a tenacious unit. It's the Frankenstein's monster of anthologies, the stories - the parts - all the more terrifying due to their effortless cohesion. True, a few of the stories show their stitches (an odd word choice here, a typo there), but these are few and far between. Credit for this must go not only to the authors but to the editor as well.

With so much variety in the selected stories, everyone will doubtlessly have their own unique favourites. Mine, in order of appearance:

"The Color in the Jar" by David McGillveray: As the first entry in the anthology, this story has the formidable task of getting the train rolling, of making the reader want to carry on with the rest of the stories. It's with an equal mix of fantasy and familiarity that it succeeds, and the book is on the right track. It's the Pulp Fiction style of intrigue and the quest of the strong, silent Smiling Man that sets this story apart.

"The Seventh Green at Lost Lakes" by Scott Brendel: My personal favourite. It's easily one of the most readable entries, it's laced throughout with a sardonic wit and it's about a mysterious golf course. Brendel is a skilled writer of horror/comedy, right up there with Jeff Strand and Christopher Moore. If you're going to read only one of the stories, this is the one.

"The Bridge Chamber" by Rayne Hall: A story so familiar in its nostalgic knowledge of childhood's myriad challenges, anyone who was once a child themselves will be simultaneously chilled and panicked while reading. A very claustrophobic story.

"Popee" by Justin Madison: The second most humourous of the offerings, but first in its sublime sense of gruesome laughs. It's the zombie version of Little Miss Sunshine, with the grandfather rising from the dead, and the dysfunctional family struggling to find their way in an undead world.

"The Little Girl Who Lives in the Woods" by Ralph Robert Moore: Clearly the most disturbing story in the book, and the hardest to swallow, but it's vivid prose and raw imagery make it a powerful read, and one that's impossible to forget. The title alone sends shivers down my spine.

"The Place of Revelation" by Ramsey Campbell: Mature and literary; it's on the outset very grownup, which renders the reader in awe as it unfolds. It is a children's fairytale of sorts, akin to a 21st century telling of a Grimm tale, although much more dark and engrossing.

"What Betty Saw" by Joel Jacobs: The final story, and one of the briefest, which is exactly its greatest strength. What Betty sees will undoubtedly leave you speechless and shaking, unwilling to let the book go, and will remind you that in the creation of powerful, memorable fiction, size doesn't matter.

That's only seven of the stories that worked best for me, with twenty-one remaining for you to discover on your own. It's time to sew the gory parts together, hook the monster up to the power generator and flip the switch. The monster is alive, it's alive, and it's waiting for you...

Read By Dawn: Volume 2 will be released in April 2007 by Bloody Books.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Read By Dawn a Must!!!, Nov 6 2006

By Nickolas Cook - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Read By Dawn: Volume One (Paperback)

READ BY DAWN: Volume 1

This has been a great year for anthologies. First we got Lee and Wilbanks' knock out collection, "Damned Nation", and then Skipp's long awaited zombie anthology, "Mondo Zombie", and now from Bloody Books we have READ BY DAWN. Put together by Adele Hartley, Director of "Dead By Dawn", Scotland's International Horror Film Festival, the anthology showcases writers from around the world, including Finland, America, Scotland, Canada, and Australia. If there is an international language for horror, this anthology is it. Among the 30 stories within, I consider only a few to fall into the mediocre category, most go straight to my favorite short stories of the year list. If this collection doesn't sweep the International Horror Guild and the Stokers awards next year, and get some respectable page space in Ellen Datlow's "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror", there is no justice.

Some of my particular favorites- I mean the ones that downright made me gasp aloud or shiver while reading them- were "Bloodwalker" by Michelle Lee, an alternative universe tale of practical evil, "The Face in the Glass" by Brian G. Ross, and Rayne Hall's "The Bridge Chamber" (take that, The Descent). I'd also like to call attention to Samuel Minier's "Stuck" as a particularly well-written piece, subtle and heart wrenching, even to the bloody end. And I liked the way Lavie Tidhar takes the Alice In Wonderland theme across the world and plops it into war torn Germany in "Eine Kleine Nachmusik (1943)". But I think if I had to choose a favorite it would be "The Kylesku Trow" by Stefan Pearson; the tale's last riddle will haunt me for many years to come.

Bloody Books knows how to package. The austere red, white, black and gray cover draws you in, and the font is easy reading despite the size of the slim volume. I have only one complaint with the book's construction: There are no author names listed with the tales themselves, neither in the Table of Contents or the traditional top of the page of each story. If one needs to find the author, one must either go back to the first page of the story, or scan the tiny print of the copyright page. But this is such a small thing compared to the fine stories this volume gives us. My hope is that subsequent volumes will fix this issue. But in the professional hands of the editor, I think the next volume will be even more engrossing and bring to light some of the new names in horror. And the U.K.'s most respected living horror author, Ramsey Campbell, must think they've got what it takes to become something quite special, as he adds a touching story of his own to the collection and provides a wrap around piece as well. "The Place of Revelations" seems to be his nod to the new voices in the genre and is, as usual, brilliantly written work from a master of the craft.

In the absence of so many beloved ongoing anthology series, this is one to keep your eyes on in the future to give you the well-written, exciting horror fix you need.

--Nickolas Cook

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, Oct 24 2006

By M. Jason Lush - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Read By Dawn: Volume One (Paperback)

Read by Dawn is a delightful anthology of horror stories, from moody and atmospheric to wicked, cruel, amusing and oh-my-god-they-went-there. It's a book to have and keep and read over and over. I highly recommend it for horror fans everywhere.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightfully Wicked, Jun 11 2007

By Michele Lee - Published on Amazon.com

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Let's just forget for a moment that I have a story in this anthology (Read by Dawn volume 1) and say it just happened to be an Amazon.com order mistakenly delivered to my house. I'm not going to go over story (because there are 27 of them), as I do with magazines. Instead I'm going to highlight a few stories that stood out to me. In the order they appear in the book these are:

# Last Day on the Job by Jeff Jacobson- I loved the imagery of the world of skyscrapers which so many take for granted raining down upon the bug-like people below. The ending sort of fizzled, but the middle was creepy and amusing, a combination I love.

# The Seventh Green a Lost Lake by Scott Brendel- Golf horror. I love it!

# Lessons by Katherine A. Patterson- One of the creepiest stories in anthology. It's troubling on many levels, with a just desserts style ending and centers entirely on family dynamics, not violence per se.

# Popee by Justin Madison- My co-favorite in the anthology. I love dark humor and I can't even look at the title anymore without picturing a old man zombie gnawing on his grand son, being shoved back and leaving his dentures behind. When I go back through this will be the first one I read.

# The Bloom of Decay by Patricia McCormack- This one wins the creativity award in my opinion. It takes a strong veer from the rest of the stories. The horror in this one comes not from something that happens, or something the character has earned, but from who the character really is. I'm not sure it's flattering to the author, but I'd consider it flattering if someone said it of me, but this story inspired a little story of my own. This one most definitely made me think.

# Final Girl by Joe L. Murr- This one is my other co-favorite. (Hah! And you thought it was going to be my own.) This one caught me by surprise. It's so wrong but so right. It all makes sense with those last few lines, but the situation isn't the only horrible aspect of this tale.

# Frankie by Matt Wedge- This one wins the "I'd need therapy" award. In fact, just browsing the story again as I thumbed through the book to do this review made me put the book down fast, lest I reread a disturbing scene. I'll tell you one thing, these horror writers know human behavior too well. No wonder why normal people are scared of us. We use them against themselves.

# The Woman Who Coughs Up Flies by David Turnbull- This kind of story gives me hope, as a writer. The plot I guessed close to the beginning, but the sheer beauty of the writing sold me this one. It give me hope when I see those "the plot was too predictable" rejects.

# Special Offer by John Llewellyn Probert- I will never channel surf by HSN or QVC again and not think of this story. I really like that it gives a physical pain to people who spend recklessly, either due to a psychological problem or to plain old greed. I know many of these people who show off their neat new playthings while my family makes sure all bills are paid first and fully. I wonder if they would still act the same if they had the consequences presented in this story.

# Body Hunt by Chet Gottfried- Had the above mentioned "Popee" not been in this collection this tale would have won my humor vote. Amusing and dark but a natural dark, not forced. It almost reads like a dark sitcom.

# What Betty Saw by Joel Jacobs- A nice story at the end about the end. I would not have placed this story anywhere else in the collection as it does a fantastic job of bringing the anthology to a very final (burning) end.

I'd also like to note that there were no bad, poor, or even fair stories between these white covers. Every story had it merits, some merely connected better with me than others. My complete reading only serves to make me more proud of being including among these fantastic writers' tales. I am definitely putting volume two on my to buy list, as I will not be within it pages.

Good luck to Bloody Books and all the authors who have been included within their publications. May you receive the recognition you deserve.

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