The editors of The Alchemy
Press Book of Ancient Wonders asked their contributors some searching
questions. Now it’s the turn of JOHN HOWARD.
Tell us a little about yourself,
and what you like to write?
I like to write about things
which interest me – often to do with forgotten or alternate histories, obscure
places, ambiguous people.
What inspired you to write “Time
and the City”?
The title of the anthology!
Something ancient, something wonderful. I love SF pulp magazine artwork from
the 1920s and ’30s: those cities and buildings, wonderful machines and
spaceships by the likes of Frank R Paul and Leo Morey. So a story about an
incredibly ancient city full of wonders came into my mind…
If the TARDIS could drop you off
to any one site in its heyday, where would you go?
Rome.
What appeals to you most about ancient
sites/landscapes?
The sense of standing on the edge
of the abyss of time.
What do you have coming out next?
A couple of stories in
anthologies, plus a collection from Swan River Press called Written by
Daylight.
[John Howard was born in London.
He is the author of the collection The Silver Voices and the novella The Defeat
of Grief. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including
Beneath the Ground, Never Again, and The Touch of the Sea. John has
collaborated with Mark Valentine on a number of short stories, six of which
featured Valentine’s long-running occult detective The Connoisseur. These tales
have been reprinted in The Collected Connoisseur. Most recent to appear is
Secret Europe, (written with Mark Valentine) to which John contributed ten of
the twenty-five stories, set in a variety of real and fictional European
locations.]
Photo (c) Peter Coleborn
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