One week to go until Christmas! Tired of shopping, Slade, and stuffing your face? Then take a break and curl up in front of the fire with a few of my Christmas ghost stories. From 21st to 25th my short story collection Something was Stirring will be free to download onto your kindle. Featuring all … More Christmas horror giveaway
It’s that time of year again! Trees indoors, presents, mulled wine, and horror stories, of course. The grand tradition of telling scary stories goes all the way from the Victorian period (Dickens, Blackwood and others) and on down the line to Gremlins. Last year, in the spirit of the season, I released a small book … More Something was Stirring
You can now read my short story ‘There’s a Joab Oan‘ over on the Glasgow Review of Books website! Deek can see ghosts. Deek lives in a house haunted by its former occupier, Stan. Deek can’t be fucked doing the housework, or doing his job – helping Stan hunt other ghosts for cash – … More Read ‘There’s a Joab Oan’ in the Glasgow Review of Books
When it rains it pours. I’m thrilled to say I’ve had a short story accepted by the awesome Glasgow Review of Books! Due to be published on 3rd October, ‘There’s a Joab Oan’ is like The Sixth Sense only set in Glasgow, and Haley Joel Osment is replaced by a middle-aged rip-off merchant … More The Glasgow Review of Books
I’ve been sitting on this news for a while, so it’s with much excitement that I can say I have a short story appearing in a new Gothic horror anthology by FunDead Publications! FunDead is an amazing indie horror publisher based in the Witch City – Salem, Massachusetts. Back in December 2016 it released a … More New Gothic Anthology by FunDead
Two pieces of awesome news in one here! First up, Surreal Nightmares II (published by James Ward Kirk Publishing) – containing my short story The Dog Walker – is now available on Amazon in print and on kindle. It sits in good company beside other surrealist horror stories and mind-bending poetry. Secondly, The Dog Walker … More Read The Dog Walker in Surreal Nightmares II / Editor’s choice award
It’s been a good start to 2018 for me, with a horror short story of mine, The Dog Walker, being accepted for the second volume of the Surreal Nightmares anthology by James Ward Kirk Fiction. Surreal Nightmares II is a collection of surrealist horror stories and poetry, and is sure to be full to the … More Surreal Nightmares II
Hera sat beneath the reindeer skeleton. It was made of aluminium and flashing fairy lights; its innards were red and gold baubles. It towered three metres above, from bolted-down hoof to the tip of its great antlers, where the electric cable fed into the window of the department store. And in the space between its … More The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
McKinney got the football for Christmas. It arrived on the 24th, last post till after New Year. John got chocolate and a card. He ate half the bar in one go, then gave the rest away, brick by brick. He kept the card under his tin hat. They sang hymns that morning, Christmas Day. They … More War is Over
I was in New York last December on holiday. Following both guide book recommendations and obvious curiosity I visited McSorley’s Old Ale House on East 7th Street in Manhattan. There’s no relation here, just coincidence. Inside, it hasn’t changed much since John McSorley (my father’s name, another coincidence) opened it in 1854. The unvarnished wooden … More Folktale of New York
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