Best British Short Stories 2018

I’m very pleased to announce that my story Cwtch, from I Will Surround You, is to be reprinted in this year’s Best British Short Stories, edited by Nicholas Royle.

I Will Discount You

My collection, I Will Surround You, from Undertow Publications is available now at Amazon at reduced price. For just £13.99 (down from £19.99) for the hardback and £6.99 (down from £11.99), you can get hold of fourteen stories wrapped up in soft or hard loveliness. The perfect Easter gift!

Black Friday: Undertow Publications

My new collection, I Will Surround You, is on offer with VH Leslie’s critically-acclaimed Skein and Bone as part of a British Invasion sale. Get both books here for just $30 (a saving of 40%).

I Will Surround You: Table of Contents

Coming soon from Undertow Publications… I Will Surround You Stories by Conrad Williams Manners Trash Polka * The Closure f/8 The Jungle The Devil’s Interval The Hag Stone Blizzard Crypt † The Offing The Fox Shaddertown Raptors Cwtch * Rain * Original to this collection † Originally entitled ‘Wait’

I Will Surround You

My third collection of short stories, I Will Surround You, is to be released by Undertow Publications in October this year. The collection will include short stories published in recent years and will feature such award-shortlisted fiction as Rain, The Fox and Raptors. There will be two original stories especially written for the book: Cwtch […]

British Fantasy Awards

News hot off the presses: Dead Letters, published by Titan Books, has been shortlisted for the 2017 British Fantasy Awards (Best Anthology). I couldn’t have had a happier time editing this book. All of the contributors were a pleasure to work with and their stories were outstanding. I’m thrilled their collective efforts have led to […]

New Fears

Mark Morris, doyen of all things creepy, has edited a new anthology of horror fiction for Titan Books. New Fears will be published in September and contains my story Succulents. The book also contains stories by Alison Littlewood, Stephen Gallagher, Angela Slatter, Brady Golden, Nina Allan, Brian Keene, Chaz Brenchley, AK Benedict, Brian Lillie, Ramsey […]

Best of Year 2016

It’s a privilege to appear once on a year’s best list, so to have two books on Crime Fiction Lover’s top 5 books of 2016 is a real treat. Joel Sorrell isn’t the easiest man in the world to get along with, and he leads his readers into pretty bleak territory, but Sonata of the Dead […]

Hell is Empty ★★★★★

A corker of a review, thanks to Crime Fiction Lover, who gives the book five stars and reckons the Joel Sorrell books to be ‘the greatest series of crime fiction in recent memory’.

Blog Tour

Hell is Empty is officially published today, apparently (although it seems to have been available on Amazon for a few days already). To accompany the launch of the novel, I’m privileged to be involved in a blog tour. Details are below. Big thanks to all the hosts. I hope you’ll dip in to see what’s […]