The second milestone I am going to mark is that of my own imprint, Ritual Limited, making it across the 5 year line in April 2021. In that time I’ve published 3 collections of my own short stories and one…
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Couple of milestones I’m going to mark on here. First up: my novel, ‘The Ritual’, is 10 years old this year. A lot of readers continue to discover the book today and that delights me. It also makes me consider…
A new book website called Shepherd launched in May – an online experience akin to wandering around a book shop that enables readers to find shortlists and recommendations on particular subjects. I liked the concept so contributed an entry. In…
My latest Newsletter for the Damned has just flown but if you don’t take it, I can be found at the other end of this link, reading the prologue of my forthcoming novel, ‘Cunning Folk’ (published Halloween 2021 by Ritual…
Flame Tree sent me copies of their new horror hardback anthology, Terrifying Ghosts, edited by Clare Frances Elliott. My short story ‘Enlivened’ has been reprinted among a host of writers of horror; both classics and contemporary authors. Wyrd and Other…
A group of mates get lost in a Swedish forest tonight on Film 4. Kneel. #theritual
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…