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…
You write a novel about an ancient abattoir discovered in Devon, and then a local university discovers an ancient abattoir in Devon . . . 6 miles from where you live. Adam, don’t meddle with dark things you don’t understand…
DEAD LETTERS is out this week (Titan). I have a story included – ‘The Days of Our Lives’, that ranks as one of the strangest tales that I’ve committed to paper (so far). The invitation to take part in this…
My first short story collection will be published later this year (probably late summer), and in time for The Ghost Story Festival in Dublin, and Fantasycon 2016 in Scarborough, where I will be manifesting as special ghost and guest apparition,…