New Interview

Yes, that's right, some poor misguided soul saw fit to conduct an interview with me, and he wasn't a Detective Inspector with the local constabulary...

Dark Wolf Interview

Free Fiction

Click the link to read a new story: What Must be Done

Dark Pictures

Pictures of the Dark is a brand new collection from my friend Simon Bestwick. The book contains about 100,000 words of Bestwick's fiction, which combines pulp horror sensibilities with social realism to produce something scary, relevant, and often heartbreakingly tragic.

In my opinion, Simon is the real deal, and that's why I agreed to write the introduction to this major retrospective collection of his work. Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy. I can't recommend the book highly enough.

Another Monster Review

Another positive review of How to Make Monsters has surfaced. Dark Wolf's Fantasy Review calls me a "new powerful and scary voice", which is nice.

Dark Wolf Fantasy Review

British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that I've received four seperate nominations on the official shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards:

Best novel - Rain Dogs
Best Collection - How to Make Monsters
Best Anthology - We Fade to Grey
Best Novella - Heads (from We Fade to Grey)

Please, if you're eligable pop along to the BFS website and vote, even if it's not for me (but I'd prefer if it was): BFSA

New Review

There's a nice new review of "How to Make Monsters" here: SFFE

I'm very pleased with that; the reviewer (Sharon Ring) really seems to get what I was trying to achieve with the book.

Pieces of Midnight

I'm absolutely delighted to announce that my next collection, Pieces of Midnight, will be published by Ash Tree Press.

The book will consist of 17 supernatural stories, some new and some original, with each tale using traditional techniques of the weird tale to hopefully examine modern themes and concerns. This book has been five years in the making, and I can't wait to see it unleashed on an unsuspecting readership.

Update:

Here's the table of contents (in alphabetical order - final running order TBA):

• A RUSTLE OF PAPER (previously unpublished)
• ALL THE LONELY PLACES (previously unpublished)
• A SHADE OF YELLOW
• BEFORE SHE LEAVES (previously unpublished)
• BLACK GLASS
• BROKENBACK IDLE
• BRUTAL SPIRITS
• LOVING ANGELS
• MEG O' GREEN WEEDS
• MY AUTUMN HANDS (previously unpublished)
• MY GRANDFATHER'S GHOSTS
• PAINT IT BLACK (previously unpublished novelette)
• ROAD FLOWERS (previously unpublished)
• SLAP
• SAFETY DANCE (previously unpublished novelette)
• THE KNOCKING
• THE SAND KING