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…
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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…
Hark Hear the Red Folk Sing! On Publication day, the Red has left the cave. I started researching and writing notes for this novel in Romania on The Ritual shoot in 2016. The actual start I began on a plane…
Visitors to these pages may have twigged that my new novel, ‘The Reddening’, is unleashed tomorrow. If you’re undecided and would like to read a sample from the book, or get started before your copy arrives, I have created a…
“The creature’s torso suggested a heavily-breasted woman with wide hips. Part of one arm had been fashioned, the other side was damaged. But if that was a head then it was the head of an animal. A dog, he thought:…