“Shelly couldn’t decide if their campsite possessed a single redeeming feature. The landscape was all that Greg had promised: it was open, wild, hewn from steep valleys, framed by great vistas of sky and sea, and uninhabited. Though the land…
Samuel Araya has created some new artwork inspired by ‘The Ritual’ novel. I find that incredibly flattering and generally awesome. Samuel has also created the artwork for my new novel, ‘The Reddening’. I revealed this stunning original picture in my…
Nice inclusion of our monster, although the Jotunn wasn’t actually CGI because we used a real god and let it go afterwards. See the list here.
Flattered to have one of my books make this list of “lesser known books” – I think it’s a pretty good selection that deviates from the usual. I’ve read them all, some several times. Number 1 being one of my…
The Ritual has continued to enjoy positive notices online, not least from guitar god and Metallica legend, Kirk Hammett, here . I’m a big Metallica fan and first saw them play in 1986, supported by Anthrax, so to see Kirk…
Very pleased to see The Ritual canter onto this list. I guess the downside is that the book has made so many underrated book lists, that if it still remains obscure, my other books must be buried so deeply that…
While the Amazon promotion lasts on THE RITUAL tie-in edition, the paperback is now only £3.75 and the eBook 99p in the UK. I think that’s the lowest price any of my books have ever had in print. As a…
“This movie has just about every classic horror element that you can imagine: a scary forest at night, grotesque violence, a witch, mummies, a giant creature-beast, and jump scares. But I found the script to be so human and the…
Great to see ‘The Ritual’ make this list, as well as ‘Evolution’ and ‘Canal’. Among other terrific foreign horror films (though they’re not on Netflix yet), I’d also add ‘The Borderlands’, ‘The Ghoul’ and ‘Awakening’ from the Brits, the Italian…
Here’s a really informative and interesting interview with the filmmakers of The Ritual: David Bruckner (Director) and Andrew Shulkind (Director of Photography). Starts at 39 minutes, and is like a really good DVD extra. The crafting of the creature scenes…