Published to coincide with publication of my novel The Workshop Of Filthy Creation… You’ve previously written a whole variety of books, covering a wide range of genres for an array of readers, including best-selling children’s literature (as Simon Cheshire). What draws you to writing science fiction, horror and speculative fiction specifically? They’re the genres inContinue reading “Q&A”
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My horror reading Top 10
I’ve been a horror fan all my life. As a kid I loved listening to my BBC Death & Horror Sound Effects record (on blood red vinyl!) as if it was Beethoven, I made those old Aurora plastic kits of Dracula and The Mummy, and the best film I’d ever seen was Abbott & CostelloContinue reading “My horror reading Top 10”
Never give up, never give in
Sometimes, when you’re a writer, an idea takes up residence in your head, demands squatter’s rights and simply won’t leave. My new novel The Workshop Of Filthy Creation is a case in point. When it’s published at the end of October (coming soon! watch this space!) it will have been lounging about in my brain,Continue reading “Never give up, never give in”
A brief history of gothic horror
Horror stories – for the most part, anyway – are all about bodies. Bodies changing, bodies dying, bodies coming back to life, bodies being bitten with fangs. All the things which can transform, or damage, or distort us (physically or emotionally!) are what’s at the heart of most scary fiction, either in books or onContinue reading “A brief history of gothic horror”
