Sunday 26th August, 5pm til 6pm, RBS Corner Theatre, EIBF, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh For those of you out there paying attention, Chris Priestley is one of the finest literary horror writers of recent times. It just so happens his books are sold in the teen/YA section of bookstores. Some attempt by his publisher, Bloomsbury, has […]
Chris Priestley (pictured above at a book festival last year) is the extremely talented author of the Tales of Terror series (Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship, and Tales of Terror from the Tunnel’s Mouth – plus the very rare The Teacher’s Tales of Terror for World Book Day […]
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury, PB, £6.99, out now) It is always an enjoyable thing to see a talented writer challenging himself with an ambitious project. Here we have an exceedingly talented writer doing just such a thing with Mister Creecher, his latest novel. It would have been very easy for the author to produce […]
The British national tradition of Christmas ghost stories is something of which I was uttely ignorant until one December a couple of years ago, when a friend introduced me to the work of M. R. James. Widely regarded as being one of the finest writers of ghost stories in the English language, James would hold […]
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (Headline, 2010, PB, £7.99) This is an easy, entertaining read, that reminds very much of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett at their most mischievous, which of course is a good thing. The titular Johannes Cabal is on a mission to win back his soul from Satan and […]
Curtis Jobling. What inspired the world of Lyssia and the Seven Realms? I’ve been a lover of horror and fantasy from a criminally young age, and knew that if I were to ever get around to writing a novel, then chances were it would be in one of the two genres. Who guessed it would […]