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 is an author whose collection of short stories, The Old Knowledge, was first 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).

Parker is also co-scriptwriter of the feature film The Dark Return of Time, which is in pre-production,^[8] and co-director/producer of Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales,^[9] due for release May 2015.

Literary work

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

Short Story Collection by Parker

• The Old Knowledge and Other Stories, Swan River Press (Dublin), 2010. Reprinted 2012.

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. Hoffman, 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

Articles Contributed to Magazines

• 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

• The Dark Return of Time, 2016 (co-scriptwriter/associate 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

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