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Lots of writers have an ‘orphan’ manuscript.

It sits in a file or in a box. The box has gathered dust, but there are fingermarks from where the writer has cracked it open on occasion, just to peer inside to see if the orphan is still there.

A year or so back, I shoved my orphan into a box. I’d had what I thought was a great idea. A story that would be relentless in its horrors, yet psychologically acute.

Reader, it didn’t work, despite major revision.

I was done with it. Or was I?

The thing is, I...

It's been a busy period, getting ready for the release of 'The House That Screamed', my haunted house meta-horror.

Early reactions have been lovely. Writing is such a solitary and strange occupation. Much of my time is spent at the keyboard, in monastic silence, hoping that what I am writing will find a reader (or more than one!) who loves it as much as I do.

As well as getting ready for readers to walk through the doors of an infamous haunted house, I was thrilled that 'The Forest...

Well, setting up a new website is one of them. It's fair to say that I am not technically-minded.

If you've read my work, or if you're curious about it, then welcome. Pull up a chair.

My nightmares? Trauma, grief, loss of control. You'll find them all in my tales of horror. Ordinary people pushed to the limit by things they do not, cannot, understand.

The Harvest, my debut novel, was born from a dream, a nightmare so vivid I've never forgotten it. Waking, in shock, I said to myself 'that...