New foreign editions have been flowing thick and fast over the past four years, and hot on the hooves of The Reddening’s appearance in Russia (Astrel), Under a Watchful Eye has also just projected itself into that language and territory….
From time to time an artist reads one of my books and is inspired enough to interpret something that has affected them in that story. It’s one of the absolute highlights of writing horror: having my own mad creations adapted…
“something unspeakable has visited, or indeed (as we are to discover,) is in the process of visitation” A postmortem of ‘Wyrd’ & raising our horns to writer Tom Adams.
There’s another thoughtful review/essay on ‘Wyrd’, this time from James Pate at Sublime Horror. “There’s an affinity between horror and the avant-garde. From the visceral dystopian visions found in Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition, to the gothic-infused…
My obsidian heart has been warmed. Last night, some very kind folks at the British Fantasy Society gave ‘The Reddening’ The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. I’m elated, my horns are raised. My little black tail may also…
I have a long chat here with Steve Stred, hosted by Kendall Reviews, and lever the lid off my horrors and publishing.
I recently finished a few ongoing TV series (Mr Mercedes 3, The Boys 2 & now watching The Stand as the episodes drop) but have turned most of my eyes back to horror films. So, here are a few lockdown…
The Wyrd parasite wriggles. Our membranes undulate in thanks to Mother Horror. Sadie Lou Who: Best Collections, Anthologies, and Short Stories in 2020. Wyrd wriggles and No One Gets Out Alive at Kendall Reviews. Featured in Gavin’s favourite horrors of…
Really chuffed, not least startled, to see that my least popular novel (Lost Girl), is being discussed this week at an academic conference hosted by Cappadocia University. ‘Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction,…
By 2015, after researching my novel, ‘Lost Girl’, for a few years, I began, increasingly, to imagine a world without us in it (someone has to). ‘Lost Girl’ is about the consequences of runaway climate change, twinned with all kinds…