Like Old Photographs in Second-hand Books (With Nicholas Royle)

Nicholas Royle is a short story writer, a novel writer, the editor of the Best British Short Stories series. In this episode, I get to chat with him about his latest collection of short stories, Paris Fantastique (Confingo), and about his passion for second-hand books. Nicholas is also the founder of Nighjar Press, which publishes individual short stories as limited-edition chapbooks. Listen to find out more!

Works mentioned:
Nicholas Royle, Paris Fantastique (Confingo Publishing, 2025).
Nicholas Royle, Manchester Uncanny (Confingo Publishing, 2022).
Nicholas Royle, London Gothic (Confingo Publishing, 2020).
Nicholas Royle, Antwerp (Serpent’s Tail, 2005).
Nicholas Royle (editor), The Best British Short Stories 2025 (Salt, 2025).
Nicholas Royle, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (Salt, 2021).
Nicholas Royle, Shadow Lines: Searching for the Book beyond the Shelf (Salt, 2024).
C. D. Rose, ‘I’m in Love with a German Film Star’, in Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea, (Melville House, 2024).
Joel Lane, The Foggy, Foggy Dew (1986).
Alberto Manguel (editor), Black Water: An Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Picador, 1983).
Shelley Jackson, The Melancholy of Anatomy (Anchor Books, 2002).
Jamaica Kincaid, ‘Blackness’, in At the Bottom of the River (Picador, 1984).

Confingo publishing: PARIS FANTASTIQUE by Nicholas Royle | confingo

Podcast intro and outro credits: Shield, Leroy, Taylor Holmes, and Robert W Service. The shooting of Dan McGrew. 1923. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.