If you believe the naysayers, there's no market for horror and there's a limited market for short story anthologies.

Why then would a new publisher launch with two dark fiction anthologies — Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2006 edition and Book of Shadows Volume One? Articulate spoke to Brimstone Press co-founder Shane Jiraiya Cummings to find out. WA-based Cummings and co-founder Angela Challis are no strangers to publishing and the Australian dark fiction scene.

Together they established Shadowed Realms as one of only a handful of recognised professional dark fiction magazines in the world (as determined by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and the international Horror Writers Association).

Shadowed Realms was the first electronic publication to be nominated for the Australian SF Achievement Award (the Ditmar Award) for Best Collected Work and published last year's Aurealis Award-winning horror story.

Brimstone Press' first anthology - the Shadow Box e-anthology CD - was nominated for the Australian Shadows Award and the WA SF Achievement Award ("Tin Duck award").

The publisher has at least 10 titles produced or scheduled.

Check out the full interview courtesy of ABC's Articulate by clicking here.

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