Vampires!

Just when you think the final stake has been driven in, all bats rounded up, and the last decaying castle thoroughly mopped down with holy water, up pops another vampire anthology.

This anthology, part of the Creature Feature Classics series from Snake Bite Books, includes my story Old Clawhand.

My thanks to editor Annie Knox for selecting my story for inclusion.

Nocturnal Transmissions

I'm greatly honoured to have had my story 'Here Comes Mr Herribone!' featured on Kristin Holland's Nocturnal Transmissions podcast.  Kristin did a wonderful job narrating the story.  Even though it's my story I found it a genuinely terrifying listen!

Click here to listen to the episode.

For anyone who enjoyed listening to this story, I'd like to give a quick reminder that I since expanded it into a novella, which is available from Dark Lane Books.

Wild Places

It's wonderful to have a story in the latest issue of C.M. Muller's Chthonic Matter Quarterly (#8).  Wild Places is a sequel of sorts to my novelette (and title story of my latest collection), The Hollow Hills.  Journalist Louis Holton's trespass is some ancient Spanish woods continues to impact his life even after he returns to England, with his wife Siobhan and newborn baby, Holly, now dragged into the horrors.

To find out more about this anthology, go here.

The False Ones

Exciting news: my new novel, The False Ones, is due for release on 4th February 2025 from Macabre Ink, an imprint of Crossroads Press, and is now available for pre-order.

The Silence of the Heart

As a huge admirer of the work Rebecca Parfitt does on her 'modern day penny dreadful, The Ghastling, it's a real honour for me to have my work appear in it's pages.  'The Silence of the Heart' is another story about those shape-shifters that inhabit the Yorkshire Moors (more info here).Always beautifully designed and illustrated, with carefully chosen stories, The Ghastling is a wonderful thing to have plop through your letterbox, so why not visit their online shop and grab yourself a copy? Or two?

 

Conversation with Michael Wertenberg

Me and fellow Manta Press author, Michael Wertenberg, recently had a Zoom conversation about my novella Holburn, our writing processes, inspirations, and Michael's own books.  The video, which is part of Michael's 'Author's Talking Shop' series on his Youtube channel, can be viewed below.  It was a pleasure chatting with Michael.