Wereworld: Rise Of The Wolf by Curtis Jobling (Puffin, 2011, PB, £6.99, out now) Every now and then a genre can be reinvigorated by a title. Fantasy for younger readers is one such genre, and is in constant flux, changing and developing constantly – dictated either by publishers reacting to market trends or by authors […]
Chris Priestley What inspires you as a writer? All kinds of things. All the books I’ve read, movies I’ve seen, things that have happened to me, or happened to people I know. Good work of any kind is inspiring. I am very interested in the setting of a story and so I am constantly inspired […]
Mortlock by Jon Mayhew (Bloomsbury, PB £6.99, out now) Every now and then a book comes along that blows your mind. Mortlock, by the very talented storyteller, Jon Mayhew, is the latest to impress. It’s billed as a Teen Fiction book (a burgeoning genre in itself) but it would stand proudly next to any book in […]
The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics, PB, £9.99, out now) When discussing influential horror books, Shirley Jackson’s excellent, timeless novel marks itself as one of the all-time classic ghost stories by perhaps not truly being a ghost story. More concerned with the incredibly well-realised psyches of its characters and how […]
Tales Of Terror From The Tunnel’s Mouth by Chris Priestley, illustrated by David Roberts (Bloomsbury, 2010, PB £6.99, out now) This is the third in this excellent series of spooky yarns. The first was great (Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror), the second was even better (Tales of Terror From The Black Ship) but this latest […]
The Dead Of Winter by Chris Priestley (published by Bloomsbury, PB £6.99 – out October 2011) Edgar Allan Poe. M.R. James. Wilkie Collins. Now we can add Chris Priestley to that list, as an esteemed storyteller of ghostly delights. Following on from his Tales of Terror trilogy (of which this book is a great companion […]