Welcome to the cybersquat of Paul Pinn, writer of dark tales and purveyor of unusual provisions for the curious reader.
Spring 2009: The news -
SKULL WARS is out!! 
The new book, slightly delayed due to cover design problems, has finally hit the streets and cybershops The book is a 'frame story', although not entirely in the tradition of One Thousand and One Nights, The Decameron or Canterbury Tales (to say the least!). Concerning murder and madness, the main story is set among Croydon's pub-going alcoholics, with a brief side trip to a corrupt Tunis and a riotous Amsterdam before crash landing back where it all began, but doesn't end. Full details of the book plus links to those places selling it - Amazon, W.H.Smith, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, Blackwell, etc - can be found at http://www.freewebs.com/paulpinn/thebooks.htm. This includes a large image of the cover which knocked the publishers somewhat sideways. For an expanded version of the cover and what is on the other side of the head, plus other photographs sourced from the same place (an old forensic museum in Bangkok) visit http://www.freewebs.com/paulpinn/photoshoot.htm.
Listed for the British Fantasy Society's Best Short Fiction Award, the time-warping, shape-shifting story Borderline Charm, set around the Mississippi River and Lousiana-Texas state line, appears in the paperback anthology New Writings in the Fantastic edited by John Grant and published by Pendragon Press. The story has been favourably mentioned in reviews of the book, available at http://www.pendragonpress.co.uk and elsewhere.
Stench Man Killer Boy, a nihilistic tale of terrorism, misogyny and godlessness, appeared in Chimeraworld #3 edited by Mike Philbin, and was apparently given an 'Honorable Mention' in Ellen Datlow's The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007. Chimeraworld #3 is still available from http://www.lulu.com/content/216869.
For information on these -
- visit http://www.freewebs.com/paulpinn/thebooks.htm.
Stories set in foreign lands = http://www.freewebs.com/ppforeign/index.htm.
Verse of all sorts = http://paulpinn.bravehost.com.
I can be contacted at paul12pinn@btinternet.com.