Paul Kane Returns to Luna with a New Chilling Collection
Paul Kane is back with a brand new horror collection: Fresh Wounds. It will be released at Fantasycon 2027, in Birmingham, and it will be his third collection for Luna and his second for our Harvester series (and if you have not discovered the Harvester series, you really should!). In typical Harvester style, you can expect a suitably surprising bonus section!
The cover art is by the very talented Ben Baldwin - always a pleasure to have his artwork in the Luna family!
Once again, Paul brings us stories which takes us straight into the intricate and strange realities of the human condition. Stories that cut deep, that makes us think and put ourselves into the protagonists' shoes.
And it’s in such moments that Kane’s work shines.
When he reminds us how little time we have. How cruel the numbers. Then dares to pose two terrible questions:
What will you do? And what will it cost you?
Jamie Flanagan
Paul on the collection:
I’m delighted to be working with the amazing Luna Press yet again, for my third collection with them. This one draws together a lot of material from the last few years, but as with all of my stuff you can usually see a through-line. Most horror contains wounds of some sort, and this collection is no different; whether they be physical or mental, deserved or not. The past can wound as easily as the present, a supernatural being as easily as someone – or something – solid. The title is a huge nod to my dear late friend Christopher Fowler’s collection Flesh Wounds, one of my favourites of all time – please do hunt it down if you’ve not read it. And I was over the moon when the wonderful Jamie Flanagan agreed to pen the introduction for the book, and said such lovely things about the writing. Forever grateful! I hope everyone else gets a kick out of reading it, too.
Paul is a cornerstone of the horror short fiction world, bringing us intelligent horror stories that truly leave a mark. More news in due course!
‘Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned.’
(Clive Barker – Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone & The Scarlet Gospels)
‘Paul Kane’s lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that’s very much fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows and the cracks in the pavement.’
(Mike Carey – Award-winning, bestselling author of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the Gifts, Once Was Willem and Outlaw Planet as M.R. Carey)
‘Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out and serves them up in these deliciously dark tales.’
(Kelley Armstrong – Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Spell Bound and Thirteen)
‘An artistic visionary for our times. A deft and daring writer, Paul is equally accomplished at editing, filmmaking, illustrating, and painting, and in all these forms he asks a set of probing questions about life, destiny, meaning, and “something else”.’
(Nancy Holder – Bestselling and award-winning author of Crimson Peak, Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Book of Fours, Wonder Woman and On Fire).
‘Paul Kane is a name to watch. His work is disturbing and very creepy.’
(Tim Lebbon – New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin in the Woods, The Silence and Secret Lives of the Dead)
About Paul:
Paul Kane is the award-winning (including the British Fantasy Society’s Legends of FantasyCon Award 2022), bestselling author and editor of over a hundred and seventy books – such as the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts, Wonderland (a Shirley Jackson Award finalist) and Pain Cages (an Amazon #1 bestseller). His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue and DeathRay. He has been a Guest at Alt.Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, Edge-Lit in 2014 and 2018, HorrorCon, HorrorFest and Grimm Up North in 2015, The Dublin Ghost Story Festival and Sledge-Lit in 2016, IMATS Olympia and Celluloid Screams in 2017, Black Library Live and the UK Ghost Story Festival in 2019 and 2023, plus the WordCrafter virtual event 2021 – where he delivered the keynote speech – and Rhyller Thriller in 2026, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention, and a fiction judge at the Sci-Fi London festival. A former British Fantasy Society Special Publications Editor, he has also served as co-chair for the UK chapter of The Horror Writers Association and co-chaired ChillerCon UK in May 2022. His work has been optioned and adapted for the big and small screen, including for US network primetime television, and his novelette ‘Men of the Cloth’ was turned into a feature by Loose Canon/Hydra Films, starring Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re Next): Sacrifice, released by Epic Pictures/101 Films. Paul was also asked to pitch, along with a co-writer, for the remake of Hellraiser in the 2010s. In 2023 HorrorCon screened a retrospective of his Film & TV adaptations, and interviewed Paul in front of the live audience. His audio work includes the full cast drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart for Bafflegab, starring Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and the Robin of Sherwood adventure The Red Lord for Spiteful Puppet/ITV narrated by Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint), plus his plays have been performed at FantasyCon and by Hideout Theatre in London. He has also contributed to the Warhammer 40k universe for Games Workshop and has been asked to pitch on projects for both DC/Warner Bros. and Marvel. Paul’s latest novels are Lunar (set to be turned into a feature film), the YA story The Rainbow Man (as PB Kane), the sequels to RED – Blood RED & Deep RED, all collected in an omnibus edition – the award-winning hit Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell, Before (an Amazon Top 5 dark fantasy bestseller), Arcana and The Storm. In addition he writes thrillers for HQ/HarperCollins as PL Kane, the first of which, Her Last Secret and Her Husband’s Grave (a sellout on Waterstones.com and at The Works) came out in 2020, with The Family Lie released the following year (all three novels were Amazon sellouts). His books have been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Bulgarian and Polish. Paul lives in Derbyshire, UK, with his wife Marie O’Regan. Find out more at his site www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Charlaine Harris, Robert Kirkman, Catriona Ward, Dean Koontz, Olivie Blake and Guillermo del Toro.
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