Peter Tennant is a prolific writer of
horror,
fantasy
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and
speculative fiction
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, and award-winning columnist and reviewer for
Black Static
''Black Static'', formerly ''The 3rd Alternative'', is a British horror magazine edited by Andy Cox. The magazine has won the British Fantasy Award for "Best Magazine" while individual stories have won other awards. In addition, numerous stories ...
magazine. He has also written or run review columns for genre magazines including ''Whispers of Wickedness'', ''Zene'', ''Touchpaper'', ''Maelstrom'', ''The Third Alternative'', ''Dream'', ''Vector'', ''Dreams from the Stranger’s Café'', ''Black Tears'', ''The Zone'', ''Unreal Dreams'', ''Zest'', ''Sol'' and ''The Fix''.
Bibliography
1980s
* The Conquest of the Earth in ''Jennings Magazine'' 6 (1987)
* The Machine That Turned On, in ''Opus Quarterly'' 4 (1988)
* Swansong in ''Ways of Living'' anthology (1988)
1990s
* The Unpragmatic Gesture: A Pas de Deux for Police Officer and Demiurge', in Exuberance'' 3 (1991)
* The Healer, in ''Dream'' 29 (1991)
* Hunger, in ''Winter Gold'' anthology (1991)
* The Cryptogram, in ''Far Point'' 3 (1992)
* Stay of Execution, in ''Rattler's Tale'' 14 (1992)
* The Rorschach Test, in ''Memes'' 7 (1992)
* Winston and the Demon, in ''Grotesque'' 2 (1993)
* Grist for the Mill, in ''Psychotrope'' 1 (1994)
* Love Hurts, in ''Dreams from the Stranger's Café'' 2 (1994)
* Chameleon, in ''Alternaties'' 18 (1994)
* Late Arrival, in ''Alternaties'' 18 (1994)
* The Men Watching, in ''Dreams from the Stranger's Café'' 3 (1994)
* Special Talent, in ''Alternaties'' 19 (1994)
* Little Monsters, in ''Cold Cuts II: More Tales of Terror'' (1994)
* The Dead Planet, in ''Alternaties'' 20 (1994)
* Storm Warning, in ''Rattler's Tale'' 22 (1994)
* The Homecoming, in ''The Unnameable'' 4 (1995)
* Long Ago and Far Away, in ''Premonitions'' 4 (1995)
* The Eye of the Beholder, in ''Axiom'' 1 (1995)
* Flesh and Blood, in ''Urges'' 1 (1995)
* Taking Care of Patrick: Fact and Fantasy, in ''Axiom'' 2 (1995)
* Sales Pitch, in ''Night Dreams'' 3 (1995)
* The Wisdom of His Words” and Blood After Dark, in ''Sierra Heaven'' 1 (1995)
* Superstition, in ''Footsteps'' 1 (1995)
* The Murder Mystery, in ''Kimota'' 3 (1995)
* A Politically Correct Poem, in ''Encounters anthology'' (1995)
* Man, Woman, Steam, in ''Night Dreams'' 4 (1996)
* Malcolm and the Medusa, in ''Urges'' 2 (1996)
* Loving the Alien, in ''Urges'' 2 (1996)
* Arthurian Romance, in ''Flickers ‘n’ Frames'' 25 (1996)
* Down at the VA Mission, in ''Scar Tissue'' 9 (1996)
* All the Other Books, in ''Sierra Heaven'' 2 (1996)
* Question and Answer, in ''The Snu'' 4 (1996)
* Vox Populi, in ''The Snu'' 4 (1996)
* One Moment in Time, in ''The Snu'' 4 (1996)
* After the War, in ''The Snu'' 4 (1996)
* The Aliens Who Saved the World, in ''RQC'' 4 (1996)
* The Fortune Teller, in ''Kimota'' 4 (1996)
* The Shooting Gallery, in ''
Peeping Tom
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'' 23 (1996)
* Rollover Week, in ''Night Dreams'' 5 (1996)
* The Boy in the Box, in ''Night Dreams'' 5 (1996)
* Blood, Guts and Technicolor, in ''Visions'' 2 (1996)
* The Gods of the Roon, in ''Odyssey'' 6 (1996)
* Are You a Serial Killer?, in ''Hallow-Zine'' 1 (1996)
* The Sculpture Garden: A Tale of Love and Betrayal, in ''Urges'' 3 (1996)
* The Postman’s Tale, in ''Footsteps'' 3 (1996)
* Toward a New Cultural Dialectic, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 1 (1996)
* The Adulterer, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 1 (1996)
* Chicken Run, in ''Visions'' 3 (1996)
* Carrie’s Child, in ''Unreal Dreams'' 1 (1996)
* The Death of a Man, in ''Kimota'' 5 (1996)
* Signing Out, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 2 (1997)
* The Fall of Man, in ''Visions'' 4 (1997)
* Click!, in ''Dark Eyes'' 1 (1997)
* Proof Positive, in ''Unreal Dreams'' 2 (1997)
* Funeral Customs from Around the World, in ''Strix'' 5 (1997)
* Caught On Camera, in ''Visions'' 5 (1997)
* The Dragon’s Progeny, in ''Odyssey'' 8 (1997)
* Vernissage, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 3 (1997)
* The Victim, in ''Unreal Dreams'' 3 (1997)
* Aversion Therapy, in ''Urges'' 4 (1997)
* The Haunted Town, in ''Footsteps'' 4 (1997)
* Indecent Proposal: Writer’s Cut, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 4 (1997)
* White Rabbit, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 4 (1997)
* The Earthly Paradise, in ''Kimota'' 6 (1997)
* The Magician, in ''Strix'' 6 (1997)
* Eating Out, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 5 (1997)
* The Salesman’s Story, in ''Odyssey'' 9 (1997)
* Healing, in ''Strix'' 6 (1997)
* Notes from a Writer’s Journal, in ''Oktobyr'' 1 (1997)
* The Giving of Names, in ''Scaremongers'' anthology (1997)
* Saved (for later), in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 6 (1997)
* Anachronism, in ''Utter Entropy'' (1997)
* The Book of Forbidden Knowledge, in ''Kimota'' 7 (1997)
* The Alien Enquiry, in ''Zest'' 2 (1998)
* Understanding Man, in ''Unreal Dreams'' 4 (1998)
* Horrorscopes: A Lover’s Guide, in ''Dark Horizon'' 37 (1998)
* The World of Numbers, in ''Axiom'' 4 (1998)
* Requiem, in ''Unreal Dreams'' 5/6 (1998)
* The Old Army Trick, in ''Visions'' 11 (1998)
* Terrible Forming, in ''Zest'' 4 (1998)
* The Secret Agent, in ''Monomyth'' 13 (1998)
* Not By Its Cover, in ''Sackcloth & Ashes'' 1 (1998)
* The Geller Effect, in ''Kimota'' 9 (1998)
* Transference, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 9 (1998)
* A Reputation for Wisdom, in ''Sierra Heaven'' 4½ (1998)
* New Adventures in Technology, in ''Sierra Heaven'' 4½ (1998)
* The Head of Ar, in ''Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'' 3 (1998)
* Notes from an Editor’s Journal, in ''Oktobyr'' 98 anthology (1998)
* New Judaism, in ''Piffle'' 3 (1998)
* The Kundalini Ritual (written with Paul Bradshaw), in ''Sackcloth & Ashes'' 2 (1998)
* Penis Envy, in ''Visions'' 13 (1998)
* A Letter to Lovecraft, in ''Enigmatic Tales'' 3 (1998)
* The Choices You Make, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 10 (1998)
* The Incentive Scheme, in ''Rattler's Tale'' 26 (1998)
* Sexual Politics, in ''Roadworks'' 3 (1999)
* The Saboteur, in ''Roadworks'' 3 (1999)
* Revenge World Inc, in ''Roadworks'' 3 (1999)
* Windows of Opportunity, in ''Monomyth'' 16 (1999)
* Scoop, in ''Strix'' 14 (1999)
* Ancient of Days, in ''Dark Fantasy Newsletter'' 4 (1999)
* The New Law of Economics: A Socialist Fable, in ''Dark Fantasy Newsletter'' 4 (1999)
* Salem’s Parking Lot, in ''Kimota'' 10 (1999)
* The Invaders, in ''Kimota'' 10 (1999)
* Juju, in ''Kimota'' 10 (1999)
* The Bones, in ''Kimota'' 10 (1999)
* A Pleasing Discovery, in ''Monomyth'' 17 (1999)
* The Crash Test Dummies, in ''Monomyth'' 18 (1999)
* Woman’s Lot, in ''Roadworks'' 4 (1999)
* Lost and Found, in ''Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'' 5 (1999)
* Peter, Paul and One Other: A Parable, in ''Peeping Tom'' 33 (1999)
* Dirty Talk, in ''Unhinged'' 2 (1999)
* The Threshing Floor, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 12 (1999)
* A Small Death, in ''Nasty Piece of Work'' 12 (1999)
* The Hit, in ''Maelstrom'' 9 (1999)
* Torquemada 2000, in ''Dark Fantasy Newsletter'' (1999)
* Boxing Clever, in Dark Fantasy Newsletter (1999)
* The Mesmerist, in Dark Fantasy Newsletter (1999)
* Shocking Pink, in Dark Fantasy Newsletter (1999)
* Travellers’ Tales, in ''Sci-Fright'' 4 (1999)
* Jamming with the Dead, ''Electronic Enigmatic'' (1999)
* The Abridged Nostradamus, in ''Kimota'' 11 (1999)
* The Thing in the Park, in ''The Dream Zone'' 4 (1999)
* Letting Go, in ''Sackcloth & Ashes'' 6 (1999)
* Getting Back With George, ''Enigmatic Tales'' 6 (1999)
* Jamming with the Dead, ''Enigmatic Tales'' (1999)
2000s
* Water Baby, in ''The Dream Zone'' 5 (2000)
* Death of a Valkyrie, in ''Haunted Dreams 2: Death of a Valkyrie'' (2000)
* Geraldine and the Wolfman, in ''Haunted Dreams 2: Death of a Valkyrie'' (2000)
* The Head that Wears the Crown, in ''Sci-Fright'' 6 (2000)
* The Case for the Defence, in ''Enigmatic Tale''s 8 (2000)
* A March to the Scaffold, in ''Psychotrope'' 8 (2000)
* Rosemary’s Afterbirth, in ''Kimota'' 12 (2000)
* Love Eternal, in ''Kimota'' 12 (2000)
* Collision, in ''Kimota'' 12 (2000)
* How the Stone was Moved, in ''Kimota'' 12 (2000)
* Pop Quiz: Are You a Werewolf?, in ''Dead Things'' 4 (2000)
* Measureless to Man, in The ''Dream Zone'' 6 (2000)
* Outline, in The ''Dream Zone'' 6 (2000)
* The Object of the Experiment, in ''Roadworks'' 8 (2000)
* The Collaboration, in ''Enigmatic Tales'' 9 (2000)
* O What a Friend We Have in Jesus, in ''The Dream Zone'' 7 (2000)
* Love, and What It Means, in ''Unhinged'' 6 (2000)
* ''A Halloween Story'', 30,000 word novella, self-published (2000)
* ''Confession of a Hollow Man'', 21,000 word novella from Haunted Dreams (2000)
* The Alphabet Stories, in ''The Dream Zone'' 8 (2001)
* Ambulance Chasers, in ''Dead Things'' 6 (2001)
* The Whitechapel Follies, in ''Roadworks'' 11 (2001)
* Schizodemonia, in ''Dark Horizons'' 39 (2001)
* The Necromancer’s Tale, in ''Kimota'' 14 (2001)
* One Bad Apple, in ''Hidden Corners'' 2 (2001)
* Fortunato and Montresor Reconciled, in ''Roadworks'' 12 (2001)
* Five Incidents of Rage and One of Self-Loathing, in ''Hidden Corners'' 3 (2001)
* Peter Tennant and the Truth about Imagination: A Story by Robert Wolfe, in ''The Dream Zone'' 10 (2001)
* Meeting the Victim, in ''Hidden Corners'' 4 (2001)
* The Calgary Beggar, in ''Unhinged Online'' 4 (2002)
* The Stone Which the Builders Rejected, in ''The Dream Zone'' 12 (2002)
* Starting Over, in ''Roadworks'' 14 (2002)
* Where the Bodies are Buried, in ''Darkness Rising V: Black Shroud of Fear'' (2003)
* The Weapon, in ''Monomyth'' 24 (2003)
* Revenge World Inc, in ''Whispers of Wickedness'' (2003)
* Love Hurts, in ''Whispers of Wickedness'' (2003)
* Twisted, in ''Whispers of Wickedness'' (2003)
* The Beautiful Dead, ''
Midnight Street'' 2 (2004)
* Success... and How to Achieve it, ''Whispers of Wickedness'' 10 (2005)
* A Mother's Pride, ''Whispers of Wickedness'' 11 (2005)
* Dissonance, ''Sein und Werden'' 1.1 (2006)
* De Sade: Reinventing his Story, ''Sein und Werden'' 9 (2006)
* A March to the Scaffold, ''Sein und Werden'' 10 (2006)
* Dead Message Drop, ''Whispers of Wickedness'' 16 (2008)
* Special Needs, ''Black Static'' 6 (2008)
* Something from the Wreckage, ''Midnight Street'' 11 (2008)
A Warning to the Spurious ''Whispers of Wickedness'' website (2008)
* The Short Films of David Lynch: A Review?, ''Sein und Werden'' 3.4 (2009)
* The Advent Calendar (25 flash fiction stories published in PDF by
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* Teacher Training Agency, former name of the Training and Development Agency for Schools, England
* Technical Theatre Awards, UK
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References
External links
Case Notes blog
at Midnight Street
Peter Tennant's personal blog
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English horror writers
English science fiction writers
English short story writers
American literary critics
Living people
English male short story writers
English male novelists
English male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)