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 […]
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 […]
Norwood by Charles Portis (published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, out now, £8.99) This is the debut novel from Portis, most famous for True Grit, the book that inspired two movies. Norwood was released in 1966, and featured the laconic lead, Norwood Pratt, a wandering drifter with no aim. It’s a classic tale of […]