Guy Haley in -and on- Dark Spires
A late arrival to the Dark Spires team of contributors, former Death Ray editor and SFX columnist Guy Haley has had 
quite a lot to say for himself lately, and rightly so. A few days after we thrashed out the last few edits to ‘Outside,’ his disturbing paean to post-industrial Swindon for the anthology, he launched his blog. (I especially liked the page on that beast of a cat of his — somehow I suspect that Tourette’s Dog may have met her match.)
Among his first half-dozen posts came the news that he had sold a pair of intriguing-sounding novels about a team of 22nd century detectives, Richards and Klein to Angry Robot Books. I p
articularly liked Guy’s take on the future, that —like the past, [it] is a foreign country, not an alien world. And that irrespective of technology, people will still have the same emotions as now. That mirrors my own feelings about it, although I suspect we articulate them in very different ways.
The next day he posted about Dark Spires, announcing his sale, plus some general thoughts of his and mine on the anthology. What struck me this morning is that while there are an equal mix of SF and fantasy stories in the anthology, and while half of said fantasy stories (and one of the SF stories for that matter) slide some way into varying shades of darkness –thereby re-igniting the old dark fantasy vs horror debate– his is the only out and out horror story in the anthology. And it’s penned by an SF writer. There’s versatility for you.
We need to keep a wary eye on this Haley chap, or at the rate he’s been going, he’ll be taking over the world before you know it…
