Interview: Horror Author Briana Morgan
Briana Morgan Interview
1. Congratulations on the upcoming release of your latest book The Reyes Incident! Without giving away any spoilers, could you tell us a bit about the premise?
Thank you! Here’s the back-cover summary:
A local legend gone haywire.
A small-town cop.
An impossible eyewitness testimony.
Which is easier to believe—that killer mermaids exist, or that one person is worth risking everything for?
For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Into the Drowning Deep comes a chilling horror story steeped in urban rumor.
2. What was the inspiration behind this book?
It’s always hard for me to pin down a single source of inspiration, but this article about an abandoned nuclear aircraft lab in Dawsonville, GA, was major. Also, this video, which I think everyone who loves spooky places should check out.
I’ve also wanted to write a killer mermaid book for a while. Those resources just provided the perfect setting for it.
3. As someone with experience in the self-publishing world, what is one tip about self-publishing you wish someone had passed on to you before you embark on that journey?
Don’t pay too much attention to what everyone else is doing. Focus on making your writing better and improving your craft with each release. The rest is just noise.
4. Do you have any marketing tips you can pass on to readers?
Make sure your profile pictures and names are the same across all your social media platforms! It makes it so much easier for readers and fans to find you.
5. In addition to writing books, you’re a part of the gaming community. What’s your favorite video game?
I want to say the entire BioShock trilogy, but if we’re going with one, the first BioShock game. I even have a tattoo inspired by it.
6. If you could turn one of your characters/stories into a video game, which would you pick and why?
Horror Author Briana Morgan
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t thought of this! Unboxed would make a great first-person horror game. Since it’s a script, it would be fairly easy to convert, and I think there would be some solid jumpscares in the gameplay.
7. What’s the scariest horror book you’ve ever read?
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica. It’s also the most extreme. I don’t recommend it for the faint of heart or squeamish.
8. If you could collaborate with any author, living or dead, who would you pick?
This is so tough! Probably one of my horror friends, like Todd Keisling, Cat Scully, or Gemma Amor. I’m biased, but they’re awesome.
9. Thank you so much for chatting! Where can readers find more information about you and your work?
I am all over the Internet. For almost everything, including information about my books, check out my author website. I also have a Patreon if you’d like to support me and my writing. Otherwise, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Thank you so, so much.
Horror Author Loren Rhoads #Interview
Loren Rhoads Interview
1. Congratulations on your upcoming novel Angelus Rose! This is a sequel to Lost Angels, a book you co-wrote with Brian Thomas. Can you please tell us a little about the series and what we can expect with this much anticipated new book?
The As Above, So Below series explores the story of the succubus Lorelei who saw Azaziel in her master's nightclub and thought it might be fun to bring an angel down. She never expected him to possess her with a mortal girl's ghost -- and he never expected to fall in love with her.
Angelus Rose is your basic Romeo + Juliet story, if Romeo had wings and Juliet had a barbed tail -- and all the angels and demons of Los Angeles were trying to keep them apart. The angels were inspired by Chrisopher Walken in The Prophecy. They think they are the good guys.
2. What inspired this series?
My co-writer Brian Thomas found a burned-out church in LA and wondered who might have lived there and how he might have provoked Hell to set fire to his home. One weekend when I was down in LA visiting Brian, I noticed that one of the apartment buildings near his house was called The Lorelei. Pieces started falling together, almost like fate.
3. If this series was made into movies, who would play Lorelei and Azaziel?
Wow, casting Lorelei is hard. When we first started writing the book, we were inspired by Angelina Jolie, especially as she played Kate Libby in Hackers. These days, Elodie Yung (she played Hathor in Gods of Egypt -- definitely the best part of a bad movie) or Rosa Salazar, who has been in the Maze Runner movies and Alita: Battle Angel. Azaziel is easier. I envision him as Matt Ryan, who has played John Constantine on a couple of different TV shows.
4. How autobiographical is your work? Do you draw off real events?
There are scenes in Angelus Rose that are very autobiographical. Lorelei and Aza have a date in Westwood Memorial Park, the cemetery where Marilyn Monroe and several of the cast of the Poltergeist movies are buried. Brian took me there one evening. He meant to get us there about sunset, but we couldn't find the cemetery. It's really tucked in amongst the skyscrapers. By the time we found the graveyard, it had gotten really dark. Red vigil candles burned on some of the graves, but other than that, we couldn't see much. It was surprisingly quiet in the heart of the city. I was glad to be able to work that memory into the novel.
5. When did your love of the horror genre develop?
I grew up watching the black & white Universal horror movies on TV on Saturday afternoons. My mom pointed out that many of the monsters were inspired by books, so I read The Invisible Man and Frankenstein and Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. I really fell in love with horror novels when I read Mina's baptism of blood in Dracula. After that, I was well and truly hooked.
6. What tips would you give newbie writers looking to break into the industry?
Join the Horror Writers Association and work with a mentor. It's wonderful to be able to have a professional who can answer your questions and help make connections. Mentorship is free, beyond the price of a membership.
7. What book(s) are you reading right now?
I'm reading E. M. Markoff's The Deadbringer. It's a Latinx-inspired dark fantasy about colonization, indigenous gods, and necromancy. It's completely unlike anything I've read before.
8. What is next for you? Anything in the works?
I drift back and forth between writing fiction and nonfiction. I think my next project will be to finish a guide to the pioneer cemeteries in the San Francisco Bay Area. The area's Western population began with the Spanish missions in 1776, then exploded with the Gold Rush. All kinds of people are buried here from Levi Strauss to survivors of the Donner Party to Wyatt Earp, Mary Ellen Pleasant, and Robert Ripley. The cemeteries are threatened by earthquakes and erosion, of course, but also by California's wildfires. I want to record them before they vanish.
9. Where can people find you online?
10. Thank you so much! This is you chance to say anything that wasn’t asked. Closing thoughts?
I've read some really great horror recently. Leigh Bardugo's The Ninth House was amazing. I just finished L.S. Johnson's story collection Rare Birds got better and better each story I read. I'm looking forward to Dana Fredsti's third Lilith book. This is such a great time to be a horror reader.
Dark Fiction and Horror Author Beverley Lee #Interview
Beverley Lee Interview
1. Congratulations on your supernatural series The Gabriel Davenport Series! (The Making of Gabriel Davenport, A Shining in the Shadows and The Purity of Crimson). Can you tell us a little about the inspiration behind these books?
Thank you so much, Nico. I’ve always written dark fiction, and I have a particular love for vampires and the nocturnal world they inhibit. But when I was writing Gabriel, I had no idea that it would span into a whole series. Back at the beginning, I had the idea for a house that was used as a base for a paranormal investigation team, and had even tried in the past to pen something, but nothing stuck until Gabriel and then it all became a monster that insisted on dragging me along for the ride! I’m a huge fan of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles (the early ones) and my vampires are very much inspired by the ones Anne created. There’s something so appealing about intelligent but deadly creatures who are very much at the head of the food chain. But my series isn’t only about vampires. There are witches and ghosts, monsters and people, a constant heartbeat of loyalty and courage and atmosphere, all mixed together with a healthy dose of mythology and the drip feed of dread ;)
2. Out of the three, which was the most challenging to write and why?
Definitely Purity, as I had to tie up all of the loose threads from the previous books and bring all the point of views together. This was the rebel child of the three, refusing to be hurried, and I really thought at times that it would beat me. I think I wrote over 300k in my search for the right pathways, and countless times I ended up at dead ends with the feeling it just wasn’t working. And then an idea struck for a character, which I knew was right, and that was the catalyst for the last third of the story. It stands at about 92k now and I bled through every word ;)
3. What tips can you give writers looking to develop a series versus a singular book?
I probably did everything wrong if you follow the other advice out there on writing a series. As I mentioned above I had no idea when I was writing Gabriel that there would be more, even though I knew my ending. But it was clear when I finished that there was much more to tell. When I started Shadows, I went into it knowing the character arcs of two of my main characters and the ending. That’s all I had. I just started writing and then another character threw me a lifeline (I’m hugely character led, I listen to what they tell me all of the time). What he gave me shaped the rest of the book, and a great deal of Purity too. So I’ll say do whatever works for you. Would it have been easier to have the whole series planned out before I started? Without a doubt. Would that have given me what I have now? I don’t think so. I have a huge admiration for writers who can do this, but I’m definitely not one of them!
4. How would you brand yourself as a writer? Supernatural? Dark fiction? A bit of fantasy?
I’m not a great fan of putting myself in any particular box. My stories are a genre blend of horror/dark fantasy/supernatural suspense, so I guess dark fiction would be the correct tag. I don’t think there is one book out there that can be identified as just one. A good story is a good story, and I’m simply a story teller.
5. When did your love of dark fiction begin?
I’ve always loved the darker side of anything. As a child, I used to visit an old stately home near where I lived, and I remember walking down a very ornate staircase, completely alone, looking at all of the portraits of long-dead people on the wall and wishing I could see one. I’ve had a few very shivery moments regarding things that can’t be explained, so bringing my interest and encounters into my love of words seemed only natural.
6. If you could co-author a book with any author, living or dead, who would it be and why?
Ooh, tough question! I’d love to write something with Neil Gaiman. He has the incredible knack of blending genres seamlessly and making magical realism seem perfectly feasible. I’d love to co-author something very dark with him, exploring not just things monstrous and wicked, but those same characteristics inside the human psyche.
7. What book(s) are you reading right now?
I’m reading The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read, and then it’s Dear Laura by Gemma Amor and Pretty Marys All in a Row by Gwendolyn Kiste. All the love for the ladies of horror in women in horror month!
8. What is next for you? Anything in the works?
I have a standalone novel due out on April 7th 2020. It’s very dark and combines my love of folk and fable together with horror and a twisted dash of dark fantasy.
Barrington Hall is a place of secrets—something Dan Morgan has worked hard to forget. But when a heart-breaking loss brings him back to the place where he spent his childhood summers, Barrington Hall will do what it must to make him remember.
Faye Morgan blames her husband for the death of their teenage son. She doesn’t want to leave the place Toby called home. But after she catches a glimpse of a strange boy in the midnight woods and learns of his connection with Barrington Hall, her need to learn more pulls her further and further into a nightmare world filled with past atrocities and the burning flame of revenge.
A tale of grief and horror, A Ruin of Delicate Things explores how loss can leave a hole inside of us. A hole large enough for anything to crawl into.
9. Where can people find you online?
All my books and where to find them are listed on my websitewhere you can download a free short story, a dark and twisted fairy tale, a kind of taste before you buy ;)
My favourite place to hang out is on Instagram, but you can also find me on:
10. Thank you so much! This is your chance to say anything that wasn’t asked. Closing thoughts?
This is such an exciting time to be involved in the horror community. There’s been a wonderful influx of new writers into the fold over the last few years. From all walks of life. Diverse, intelligent writers with their own stories to tell, driven by how they view their world and fuelled by their backgrounds and experiences. I think in the future we’ll see a break away from some of what is considered traditional horror, with more emphasis on cosmic horror, body horror and cross overs into noir. And, of course, the horror of a post-apocalyptic world, with the political climate and the environment. It’s a very sobering thought that this last one might be more fact than fiction.
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Horror Author Sola Cordis #Interview
Sola Cordis Interview
1.Congratulations on the release of Anhedonia! What inspired this plot?
Thank you so much I'm very proud of all the work I put into this book. The idea came around because of that old mother goose thing, "Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, And all of them out to sea".
I was just thinking about those three people and sort of daydreaming. It also occurred to me that there are certain monsters you just don't see in many forms of media, so I wanted to find a way to use them and make them really dominant.
I also wanted to show different forms of villainy. People don't always choose to be evil. It's just the path they wind up going down, and it happens without realizing. Sometimes the nature of a thing is just that- its nature, you know? It;s only evil when you feel like the victim much of the time. The relationship between the two main characters was important too because I myself was in a relationship that I was beginning to realize was...troubled. So, I imagined what something good could be like. The relationship that you see reflects a lot of my own.
Many books and movies romanticize couples in rather violent or abusive relationships. I think it's weird how stalking someone is considered romantic. I just wanted a romance that included respect. I wanted to do so much. Honestly, a great deal of the small domestic scenes got scrapped because they didn't really move the story forward. I'm still unsure if I should have pulled them. They were things that, to me, seemed like those trivial things that make life worth living. The original draft was actually much longer, but I had to pull the parts that didn't move the plot.
2. Do you believe in writer’s block? If so, how do you combat it?
Writer's block is something that happens when you don't know what happens next. So about halfway through this book I decided to actually write out an outline of the story. That allowed me to smooth out a lot of kinks and helped me sort of steamroll forward. Yes, writer's block can happen but I guess at that point you can just look things over to make sure what you have so far is cohesive. Well, that's what works for me, and also a good playlist of course!
For this book, I listened to a vast list of tavern-style music and some of that old 'chant' music.
3. You’re a self-published author. What tip do you wish you knew ahead of time, before
entering into the self-publishing world?
Editing is way more expensive than I thought it would be. I wish I would have started saving money for a really good editor as soon as I started writing the book. A good editor is worth every penny. At this point, I did manage to find an editor that I could afford, but I didn't pay very much. As a result, a few things were missed, and that's my fault for not saving up ahead of time; however, it is a lesson I did learn well. Since I've started writing my second book, I've been putting some money aside and looking around for good editors. I want the next book to be more polished.
Even though I do intend to hire an editor, I still need to brush up on grammar and for myself. That and outlines. I spent six years 'pansting' one story that still isn't finished, so if I could go back and tell myself something it would be to stop being a brat and just outline my work.
That's really the biggest thing I've learned.
4. We all know that authors have, um, unusual search histories. If the FBI were to search
through your history, what would that find that is totally, complete for “research?”
I don't even know where to start with that one, especially right now. I mean how much research on cults can you do before they flag you? I was researching scarification and blood loss and you know for a writer it's all pretty tame stuff i suppose.
5. When did your love of all things creepy and eerie begin?
One day, I wanted to be a vet. Then, I wanted to do comic books, and I have absolutely no idea at what point I fell in love with beasties and all the lore that follows them. I guess it just crept up on me, but it is really wonderful. I love being able to explore fantasy and fairy tales in a different light. I love the concept of mermaids as maneaters. These things are meant to be ugly and repulsive. They're excuses for why bad things happened when people couldn't explain why tragedies happened. Monster and ghost stories are what many mothers would use as a warning for why children and people should behave because if you didn't you might change and become something else or something wicked might reach out to take you away. Some foolishness like that. So many monsters were and are like strange guardians of a sort. I love monsters. I love them most when they're not the villain or don't see themselves that way.
6. Do you have a favorite author?
Gerald Brom. He wrote the Child Thief and Krampus and few other books. He does such spectacular paintings to adorn his writing but honestly even without the art his worlds are visceral and substantial. He took Peter Pan and made him ominous for a very different reason than one might think. He wrote a first page so hurtful that I had to close the book and brace myself for the rest. The man is absolutely amazing
7. What book(s) are you reading right now? At the moment, I'm adjusting to a new work schedule so I mostly read my friend's fan fiction on the bus rides to and from work.I used to write a lot of fanfics myself too. It's kinda funny now.
8. What is next for you? Anything in the works?
I have one manuscript that's nearing a close. I'm almost finished writing the 1st draft, and I have another planned to start after that. For now, I'm trying to focus on the 1st draft of what I think might be more thriller than horror. The one I have lined up after that s definitely going be a fantasy type horror.
9. Where can people find you online?
I don't know anything about manning a website but boy am I trying. Check it out here. I'm also on twitter but it's under @aleushadrake because I have no idea how to change that handle.
10. Thank you so much! This is your chance to say anything that wasn’t asked. Closing thoughts?
I'm afraid i must get back to my writing now. This was an absolute pleasure. I hope one day to do it again!
Horror Author Yolanda Sfetsos #Interview
Yolanda Sfetsos Interview
Horror Author Yolanda Sfetsos
1. Congratulations on your 2019 release of Breaking the Habit! Can you tell us a little about the plot? Thank you! Breaking the Habit is about a woman with many dark and violent secrets that catch up with her on her wedding night, and turn her honeymoon into a very bloody ordeal.
2. If Breaking the Habit were made into a movie, who would you like to play the leads? This is a great question. I think Marie Avgeropoulos would be great as Isla, Diego Boneta would be a perfect Cisco, and Joe Manganiello might make a good Teo.
3. What is something about the publishing world you wish you knew before you started writing? That there's a lot of nervous waiting involved. Definitely enough for neurotic writers to get anxious and double guess themselves about everything. Including whether or not emails are received, so you end up refreshing the page for a reply every couple of seconds.
4. Where did your love of horror come from? I've loved horror since I was very young. I'm a kid of the 80s, so video shops and video nights were very popular during my teenage years and I watched as many horror movies as I could!
5. As an estimate, how many books would you say you read in a year? I give myself the annual goal of reading 100 books. That includes short stories, anthologies, novellas, novels, comic books and even picture books. Though last year I managed to read 150.
6. Do you have a favorite author? My favourite authors have always been Clive Barker and Stephen King. I've picked up others through the years, but these are my two forever faves.
7. When you’re not writing, what are you up to? I'm probably hanging out with my hubby watching Seinfeld because we never get sick of the show about nothing. Or thrifting for books and games. Maybe I'm out for one of my two daily walks. If not that, then I'm reading or sorting through my many piles of books, stationery and toys.
8. What is next for you? Anything in the works? I’m always working on something. It's the beginning of the year so I'm at the planning stages. I started a horror short story in December that I’ve been itching to finish, and I know I'd like to write at least two novel first drafts and one novella this year. Not to mention revision. I have WAY too many first drafts that need to become finished novels.
9. Where can people find you online? They can check out my website, where I post about my writing projects, progress, releases and post reviews. Or they can find me on Twitter , where I pop in all the time. And if you want to know what I'm reading, check out my Goodreads page
10. Thank you so much! This is you chance to say anything that wasn’t asked. Closing thoughts? I just wanted to mention that I have a story in the recently-released UNDER HER BLACK WINGS: 2020 Women of Horror Anthology. I’m so excited about being part of this anthology featuring so many great horror authors! Also, thank you for the very cool interview.
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Horror Author Jessica Guess #Interview
Jessica Guess Interview
1. Congratulations on your novel Cirque Berserk! How did you come up with the concept of a haunted carnival?
Thank you! The premise actually started with a character. I had this image in my head of someone doing something really terrible to the tune of Rhythm of the Night by Debarge (I can’t say anymore because spoilers) but the image so bizarre that I had to write it. I had to put together why this person was doing this bad thing and the idea of the carnival was the only logical place to me. Once I had the place down, everything else came pretty easily.
2. Did you ever have any first-hand run-ins with ghosts? Do you believe they exist?
Yes. When I was around 6 or 7, I saw an angel while I was sleeping over at my cousins house. No, it was not a dream. I literally pinched myself to make sure. Not quite a ghost but it the same realm, right? Also, I’m pretty sure my childhood home is haunted. I’ve personally never seen anything, but my mom and I smell coffee and tobacco in the early hours of the morning and late at night when nobody is cooking and neither of us smoke.
3. Cirque Berserk promises the reader “brutality, bloodshed, and betrayal”, which certainly feels like a recipe for an amazing horror book. If you had to describe the type of horror you love to write in only three words, what words would they be?
Crazy Killer Girls
4. Your website Black Girl’s Guide to Horror highlights a common problem in the horror community. As you state, “Horror is for everyone, but it doesn’t always feel that way with the lack of representation in the genre.” As horror continues to evolve, what changes do you hope to see?
Oh, man. So much. I want more black women as final girls and villains. Do you know how few black female villains we have? I want to see more Indigenous people in horror movies, and more LGBTQ+ people in horror. I want more horror movies directed by women. I want to see a plus sized final girl. I want to see voodoo and Pan African mysticism that isn’t filtered through a white lens or portrayed as “evil.” I want more black witches.
5. You’ve estimated yourself to have watched over 1000 movies, so this question is going to be tough. What is your all-time favorite horror movie?
The Descent. It has almost everything I love in a horror movie: blood, a tasteful amount of gore, an all-female cast, terrifying monsters, and there’s some heart to the story.
6. What book(s) are you reading right now?
Two. Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer. I haven’t read it all the way through, but I open it whenever I need a pep talk about creativity and not sacrificing that wonder and silliness we’re born with. I also just started There Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins. It’s really good so far.
7. If you could co-author a book with any author, living or dead, who would it be and why?
Gillian Flynn. She doesn’t exactly write horror, but thrillers are close enough in my opinion. She has a style that I love and identify with and I think she also has an affinity for crazy killer girls, so we’d probably mesh well.
8. What is next for you? Anything in the works?
I’m re-working my novel right now. It was my thesis for my MFA, but I have some ideas I think will make it stronger. I’m also working on a short story about South Florida’s iguana infestation. They’re literally everywhere down here. Picture The Walking Dead, but instead of zombies it’s iguanas.
9. Where can people find you online?
You can check out my website, Black Girl’s Guide to Horror, at and follow me on Twitter HERE and HERE
10. Thank you so much! This is you chance to say anything that wasn’t asked. Closing thoughts?
Thank you for having me! There are some awesome novellas being published this year by Unnerving Magazine as a part of their Rewind or Die series. My novella, Cirque Berserk, will be out February 20th, 2020, but all of them look really cool. Check out @UnnervingMag for updates and release dates.
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Horror Author Tracy Fahey #Interview
Tracy Fahey Interview
Horror Author Tracy Fahey
1. Gothic fiction. Folk Horror. Young Adult. You do it all! When did you first develop a love for the dark and creepy?
My obsession with the macabre goes back as far as I can remember. I was fascinated by dark folktales in my locality; stories of banshees, the good folk, holy wells, hauntings. My grandmother was a wonderful storyteller, and her tales very much influenced my 2018 New Music For Old Rituals, a collection of contemporary folktales, and especially my 2017 YA novel, The Girl In The Fort.
2. Your 2019 short story ‘The Thing I Did’ received an Honourable Mention by Ellen Datlow in her The Best Horror of Year Volume 11. Congratulations! Can you please tell us a little about the inspiration behind this story?
This is a story that developed from a tiny, tragic article of a domestic accident I read many years ago. I’m obsessed with everyday horrors; the deepest horror we experience is when someone close to us is affected. With this story I also wanted to probe the idea of male grief as something unspoken and overpowering.
3. You have three incredible books published, New Music for Old Rituals (2018), The Unheimlich Manoeuver (2018), and The Girl in the Fort (2017). What tip would you give a newbie writer who wants to, one day, be published?
Read, read, read. Write, write, write. And then, submit, submit, submit.
You learn so much from reading and appreciating and noticing the way others write. You learn hugely by doing – by the act of writing, re-writing, editing. Finally, it’s through submitting and getting feedback that you learn to hone your work – and hopefully get it published in the process.
4. What is your least favorite horror trope?
Probably body torture. I won’t watch it. However, perversely, I am working on a collection of female body horror at the moment – but quiet female body horror. It’s a challenge to write from the body without being explicit and gory.
5. If you could co-author a book with any author, living or dead, who would it be and why?
That’s an interesting question! I’ve co-written before -The Black Room Manuscripts IV which was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award in 2019 was co-edited by myself and J.R Park – we also co-wrote a prologue and epilogue for it. I found it fascinating that although we have very different styles and influences, we write together very effectively. From that I learned that the way to co-author is to respect each other’s work, listen to each other’s criticisms and carve out a way of working that suits both parties. I’d love to work with J.R Park again and with other contemporary horror writers I admire such as Priya Sharma, Georgina Bruce, James Everington and many MANY more.
6. What book(s) are you reading right now?
I generally read a few books at a time – right now I’m finishing Yrsa Sigurdsdottir’s Icelandic noir novel The Reckoning, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s multi-dimensional time-travel This Is How You Lose The Time War, and Sarah Read’s marvelous short story collection, Out of Water.
7. If you weren’t a writer, what job would you have?
I’m a part-time writer, so I already have a full-time job working in an art college, which is rather wonderful- as a Gothic writer I also get to run research projects and teach a class on the Gothic. But apart from that I do have an abiding love for forensic science – I’ve taken a few online classes on forensics, so that’s something else I’m really interested in.
8. What is next for you? Anything in the works?
I’m excited to say that on Friday the 13th of March my publishers, the Sinister Horror Company, will release the deluxe edition of The Unheimlich Manoeuvre with five new stories, two new essays, and story notes on all tales in the collection. They’re also bringing out a chapbook, Unheimlich Manoeuvres In The Dark, a chapbook of this new material, so anyone who’s read and enjoyed the original book can simply buy the additional writing as a stand-alone.
I’m also working on two short story-collections, the body-horror I Spit Myself Out that I’ve mentioned, and a collection on liminality and ‘other’ spaces, provisionally titled In-Between Days.
9. Where can people find you online?
I hang out on Twitter where I tweet about writing, books, the Gothic and esoterica related to medieval monsters, folk traditions and fine art.
10. Thank you so much! This is your chance to say anything that wasn’t asked. Closing thoughts?
First of all, thank you for the interview. It’s been a pleasure to answer these questions. And if any reviewers are interested in advanced reader copies of the deluxe edition of The Unheimlich Manoeuvre or the chapbook, Unheimlich Manoeuvres In The Dark please contact me via my website and I’ll be delighted to send on a copy. I’m also generally available for blogs, interviews or articles on the Gothic, the domestic uncanny, folk horror, body horror or contemporary female horror writing