Rosalie Parker is an author, scriptwriter and editor who runs the Tartarus Press with R.B. Russell.
Parker jointly won the World Fantasy Award "Special Award: Non-Professional" for publishing in 2002, 2004 and 2012. The Horror Writers Association gave Parker and Russell the "Excellence in Speciality Press Publishing" award for 2009.
Her anthology, Strange Tales, won the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.
Parker's first collection of short stories, The Old Knowledge, was 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). "Random Flight" was included in Best British Horror 2015. Her second collection, Damage is on the longlist for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.
Parker is also co-scriptwriter of the feature film The Dark Return of Time, which is in pre-production. She is also co-director/producer of Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales, released May 2015, and Coverdale: A Year in the Life, released February 2016.
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"Selkie: A Scottish Idyll", Supernatural Tales 29, 2015"Homecraft", Uncertainties, Volume II, Swan River Press, 2016"The Bronze Statuette", Supernatural Tales 33, 2016"The Attempt", Shadows and Tall Trees 7, 2017Short Story Collections by Parker
The Old Knowledge and Other Stories, Swan River Press (Dublin), 2010. Reprinted 2012Damage, PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2016Works edited by Parker
Tales from Tartarus, edited with R.B. Russell, Tartarus Press, 1995Ghost Stories, by Oliver Onions Tartarus Press, 2000Dromenon, The Best Weird Stories, by Gerald Heard, Tartarus Press, 2001The Collected Macabre Stories, by L.P. Hartley, Tartarus Press, 2001Various Temptations, by William Sansom, Tartarus Press, 2002Strange Tales I, Tartarus Press, 2003Tarnhelm, The Best Supernatural Stories, by Hugh Walpole, Tartarus Press, 2003The Suicide Club and Other Dark Adventures, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tartarus Press, 2004Father Raven and Other Tales, by A.E. Coppard, Tartarus Press, 2006The Sense of the Past, by Henry James, Tartarus Press, 2006The Man Who Could Work Miracles, by H.G. Wells, Tartarus Press, 2006Strangers and Pilgrims, by Walter de la Mare, Tartarus Press, 2007Strange Tales II, Tartarus Press, 2007The Triumph of Night and Other Tales, by Edith Wharton, Tartarus Press, 2008Sredni Vashtar, by Saki, Tartarus Press, 2008The Sandman and Other Night Pieces, by E.T.A. Hoffman, Tartarus Press, 2008An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories, by Ambrose Bierce, Tartarus Press, 2008The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tartarus Press, 2008The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, by Washington Irving, Tartarus Press, 2009Strange Tales III, Tartarus Press, 2009Nightmare Touch, by Lafcadio Hearn, Tartarus Press, 2010Clarimonde and Other Stories, by Theophile Gautier, Tartarus Press, 2011Strange Tales IV, Tartarus Press, 2014Strange Tales V, Tartarus Press, 2015Green Thoughts, by John Collier, Tartarus Press, 2016Articles Contributed to Magazines
Margaret Atwood, Book and Magazine Collector 302, Christmas 2008Harry Crosby, Book and Magazine Collector 305, March 2009Alastair, Book and Magazine Collector 309, July 2009Count Stenbock, Book and Magazine Collector 317, February 2010A.E. Waite, Book and Magazine Collector 322, July 2010Edith Wharton, Book and Magazine Collector 323, August 2010The Dark Return of Time, 2016 (co-scriptwriter/associate producer)Coverdale: A Year in the Life, 2016 (co-director/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)