Terror Scribes is a satisfyingly diverse anthology, furnished with nebulous, original tales guaranteed to set your teeth on edge and give you bouts of gooseflesh. From the home-grown talent of Sue Phillips to prolific US gore-hound Deb Hoag, from the satirists to the psychopaths to the traditionalists, from demonic possession of celebrities to masturbating werewolves, from hair-raising fairytales to disturbing accounts of everyday terror, you will shiver and gasp and question. We are not oblivious to the fear Terror Scribes will evoke. Quite the contrary, we're advocates of it . . .

Glaikit, mockit, droukit, drouthy, couthy, scunner, thrawn - the Scots language is rich with words too gallus not to glory in, dialect terms that deserve better than to be boxed away as precious oddities. Here we've collected some of the strangest writers of Scottish descent to bring these terms to life - that's Scottish by heritage or residence, adoption or initiation...

..".part-time hitman/ exterminator, Ignius Ellis's dream is to buy a candy-apple red Nova Supreme. In the process of trying to earn enough cash to make his dream come true he gets sucked into the rough world of Visitacion Valley, SF. When the tenants in his apartment complex reveal their various extracurricular activities this take an even more bizarre twist and Ellis soon becomes acquainted with the nightmarish Slave State dimension..."

'Dada Hue, dada Tza...surreal grandeur from every corner of Europe's sunken wens. Dark and absurd fiction that penetrates the subcutaneous fat of our psychosphere - writing that curves and bends the branches of the Pluplusch. Welcome to dada bourgeoisie, honoured poets and fictionists, who are always writing with words but never writing the word itself...' Feat: Joe Ambrose, Rhys Hughes, Neil Williamson, Seb Doubinsky, Krsysztof Dabrowski, Claude Pelieu, Achilleas Kyriakidis, John McNee, Lee Kwo, Mike Jansen, Mary Beach, Matthew Bialer, Charles Plymell, William Burroughs, Love Kolle,m Mike Kazepis, Raf De Bie, Gio Clairval, Gabino Iglesias, Gerard Malanga, Ole Wesenberg Nielsen, Michael Faun, Michael McAloran, Adam Millard, Terence-Jaiden David Wray, Andrew Coulthard,S.Clay Wilson, Wallace Berman, Scott Coubrough, Konstantine Paradias, George Cotronis, Ginger Eades, Brion Gysin, Gerard Malanga, Ralph.W.Ackerman, Charlotte Baker, Rob Harris, Preston Grassmann, Darren Rae and Joel Hubaut

Everyone gets their message through sometime. Dan Smear is on the run. It won't be long until the Slave State finds him and makes him work in a forced labour enclave for the duration of his pathetic little life. But Smear doesn't know that he has another very real threat in keen pursuit - Denny Carr, the boy from Shell County who just brutally murdered his own father and who now wants bloody vengeance on Smear. Meanwhile Mr M is working as a covert agent for the Slave State and with the promise of a starring role in the hottest new soap opera, he's dedicated to the cause... You can't run away from the Slave State...