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NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEW. HAPPY GOAT HORROR ON YOUTUBE

And over here I gibber and rabbit with the wonderful Kayleigh at Happy Goat Horror.

Fear. Writing horrible things. Writing female characters. Style & processes. Indie publishing & traditional publishing. Time management and mismanagement. And more.

We got stuck in. Get some.

And thank you, Kayleigh, for having me on your show.

THIS IS HORROR INTERVIEW - ALL THREE PARTS NOW AVAILABLE

Amidst the ringing of bells and the sound of breaking glass, the final part of my chat with This is Horror, is up and dancing online.

 

 

NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW AT NOVEL PRO JUNKIE

And to mark the tenth anniversary of No One Gets Out Alive, I took part in an interview with Mike I. at NovelProJunkie -"In one word, how would you sum up your journey writing and releasing "No One Gets Out Alive" to the world 10 yrs ago?""Morbid."

ADAM NEVILL AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH THIS IS HORROR - parts 1 & 2 of 3

It's been getting on for five years since I sat down and chewed the fat about horror with Michael Wilson and Bob Pastorella at THIS IS HORROR. Last month, while split between three time zones (the UK, Japan and the US), the three of us discussed all manner of matters, ranging from All the Fiends of Hell, Lost Girl, the pandemic, AI, indie publishing, Samuel Araya's artwork, the making of No One Gets Out Alive, and all across a whopping three hours. 

That, mercifully, has been edited down, but we finished our chat around three in the morning. At that point, I may have been hallucinating from sleep deprivation and now can't remember much of what I said. But it's always a great pleasure to hang out with Michael and Bob, and for the record, at the dawn of This is Horror, Michael first interviewed me in a pub beer garden, in Notting Hill, in 2011, near where I lived at that time. The Ritual had not long been published in trade paperback.

Parts 1 and 2 are now available.

 

ADAM NEVILL AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH THIS IS HORROR - parts 2 & 3 of 3

It's been getting on for five years since I sat down and chewed the fat about horror with Michael Wilson and Bob Pastorella at THIS IS HORROR. Last month, while split between three time zones (the UK, Japan and the US), the three of us discussed all manner of matters, ranging from All the Fiends of Hell, Lost Girl, the pandemic, AI, indie publishing, Samuel Araya's artwork, the making of No One Gets Out Alive, and all across a whopping three hours. 

That, mercifully, has been edited down, but we finished our chat around three in the morning. At that point, I may have been hallucinating from sleep deprivation and now can't remember much of what I said. But it's always a great pleasure to hang out with Michael and Bob, and for the record, at the dawn of This is Horror, Michael first interviewed me in a pub beer garden, in Notting Hill, in 2011, near where I lived at that time. The Ritual had not long been published in trade paperback.

Parts 1 and 2 are now available.

 

NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE TURNS TEN YEARS OLD

2024 also marks the ten year anniversary of No One Gets Out Alive, published in 2014, By Pan Macmillan and St Martins. This story was intended to be, aesthetically, a companion piece to The Ritual, only set indoors. A story in which a character is taken to the end of their physical and mental endurance, during a battle for survival against both human and supernatural evil.

 

Each of these novels were stories that I visualised as imaginary horror films; films that I wanted to watch. Interestingly, each novel became an actual horror film. I even wrote a logline for NOGOA (NOGOA was the nickname we all used during the making of the film): "Fifteen ghosts, three serial killers, and something much worse in the cellar".

 

I also added a sequel to each film within each novel. That's why they fall into two parts.

MY 20TH ANNIVERSARY AS A HORROR NOVELIST.

Marking a couple of anniversaries this year. Milestones significant to my time as a writer. The first: 2024 marks my twentieth anniversary in print as a horror novelist.

Twelve novels and three collections published since 2004, all still in print. To date, including forthcoming editions, their fleshless feet have crept across new ground in around 50 foreign editions/translations.

 April 2004 opened my account, when PS Publishing published Banquet for the Damned in a print run of 700 hardbacks, with Les Edwards cover artwork. Banquet' was my debut novel. I began writing the book in September 1997, in St Andrews, Scotland, while a mature student. I finished the first draft in London in 2000. I continued rewriting the book into 2001, and was still tinkering with it through 2002.

 Ramsey Campbell, who published my first horror short story in 'Gathering the Bones', recommended I send the novel to his UK publisher (and he also wrote the introduction to the first edition). So Ramsey ultimately bears the responsibility for my short stories and novels! And I remember the day when Pete Crowther called me at work – I was front desk porter of the west wing of an exclusive block of flats, in Mayfair, clad in full livery (part inspiration for Apartment 16, and several short stories). He said, "I'm going to publish your book."

 In 2024, I published All the Fiends of Hell through my own press, Ritual Limited, April 2nd.

Twenty years of continuous writing and publishing later and I am as relieved as I am surprised and grateful. And it would have been a far more miserable expenditure of time, energy and hope, without the timely interventions of Ramsey, Pete, John Jarrold (who took me on as an author in his literary agency in 2006), and Julie Crisp who rolled the dice at Pan Macmillan for Apartment 16 and The Ritual in 2009.

I still take nothing for granted. Horror fiction, to my eye, is one of the hardest fields in which to make a career as a writer. And yet horror is much more than publishing; for me, it's a purpose, a form of responsibility (to maintain quality control), a creative vision, and a strange form of chaos magic (I cast curious things out there, and all kinds of curious and unexpected things are offered in return).

A long road since 2004, folks, but many of you have enabled me to keep walking it. And for this, I salute you with both horns.

If I can avoid getting cancelled, and if readers don't desert me like plague rats from a dead ship, I hope to continue unleashing the horrors for another 20 years.

 

FIENDS HITS TOP BRITISH HORROR SPOT ON AMAZON

Fiends clawed its way to #1 on one AMZ chart last night. British Horror (an old friend of my books). Like an 80s metal record, however, it may only occupy top spot for a brief period.I'm most intrigued by its appearence as a first timer on 3 other charts: Alien Invasion, Post-Apocalyptic, First Contact.

Unfamliar ground, but I dig it.

Saluting all who bought the new album/book! As well as those who have boosted the extra terrestrial signal. You all get an exemption from genetic harvesting, because you rock!

DARK MUSINGS REVIEW ALL THE FIENDS OF HELL

Always a real pleasure to read the thoughts of Anthony Watson at Dark Musing. He's also been among the Fiends to study their form and intent.For his time and thoughts, we bathe him in an unearthly red light.

'Cosmic awe and existential dread make fine bedfellows and rarely have the two been combined to such devastating effect as in All the Fiends of Hell.' Dark Musings - Anthony Watson

Full review here:

HYPNOGORIA REVIEW ALL THE FIENDS OF HELL

On day two of the invasion, my vaporous face stops swirling and forms into a smile.

Jim of Hypnogoria has written about the Fiends. And for this I salute him with an array of bony limbs!

'While there is eerie dread, creeping terrors and visceral horror, there is also a huge imagination at work here that you cannot help but admire. This is an invasion story like no other, an unpreceded apocalypse like no other, where the world falls to foes that are as intriguing as they are horrific. ' Hypnogoria 

Full review here.