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…
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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…
A group of mates get lost in a Swedish forest tonight on Film 4. Kneel. #theritual
And on the telly tonight at 9pm, in the UK, The Ritual makes it debut on Film4. If you haven’t seen the film on Netflix, this is an opportunity to let your mind travel to a northern wilderness, to appreciate…
Again, when and if you have the time and head-space, this is a stunning journal from Dawn Keetley. ‘Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Issue 5: Folk Horror’ “Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative…
Professionally, 2019 has been the most intense year I’ve had since 2016. That was the year I created Ritual Limited and published Some Will Not Sleep, created a new website, started a newsletter and produced the free eBooks, Cries from…
The second list is over at The Quietus and The Reddening was selected by Sean Kitching, who has taken a close interest in my terrors over the years. Really delighted to have the book appear here too. The Red Abides….
I’m really pleased to see The Reddening make a couple of terrific Books of the Year 2019 lists. For a start they’re not exclusively genre lists, so that might be a first for one of my books, and this is…
Publishing, Witchfinder Apprentice, using landscape in stories, future projects … I’m interviewed over at The Quietus by Sean Kitching. The fourth time no less that we’ve put our heads together to chew the fat about horror. This one is infused…
We raise our horns and the red circle dances to offer thanks to these reviewers. I genuinely never really know how a book will be received until it is finished and published and out there. The Reddening took me two…