I’m delighted to announce that my tenth novel, One Who Was With Me, will be published this Halloween by Earthling Publications, who did such a great job on my last Earthling novel, The Unblemished. Many thanks to Paul Miller. This book would not have happened without his gentle and patient prodding. You can find out […]
Read More One Who Was With MeThese shadows were the same shadows that had swung across the stone walls for decades. Nothing here had changed.
Read More ONE DAY…He hurried back to Grace, imagining a man standing over a nude figure chained and unconscious, paying out rope bunched in his fist, separating the tawse at the end of it.
Read More TWO DAYS…They passed the windows and their shadows — hideously contorted by the flaws in the panes — made grotesque progress across the scarred back wall.
Read More THREE DAYS…But for a dim, rosy stain in the rear-view mirror, it was fully dark. Night came on fast here.
Read More FOUR DAYS…This was not their house.
Read More FIVE DAYS…Watching my son play football yesterday (his team lost to a sickening last-gasp goal), I noticed straight away that the opposition coach had an extraordinarily loud voice. So what else could I do but write down everything he said over the course of the 80 minutes… First Half Keep it moving. Make it stick. Always […]
Read More Sub ref, pleaseEdited by Paula Guran, this year’s BDF&HÂ (Prime Books) contains my story Succulents, which first appeared in New Fears (Titan Books), edited by Mark Morris.
Read More The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018My short story Cwtch, on the heels of a reprint in Best British Short Stories 2018, is to also be reprinted in Best New Horror 29, edited by Stephen Jones. The story originally appeared in my collection, I Will Surround You (Undertow Publications).
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