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A Sincere Warning About The Free Book On Your Kindle

Hello there!  Today, my ebook ghost story A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home is free to download at all Amazon sites from now until midnight Pacific Standard Time (Sunday 8am, Greenwich Mean Time.)

Yes, free.  You no longer have to part with £0.96, $1.49 or indeed €1.18 in order to own it on your electronic device (which doesn't have to be a Kindle as Amazon UK explains here.)

So why am I making my book free today?  Isn't that a smack in the face for the pe...

Fight For Fighting Fantasy

When I was a kid, I liked books.  Perhaps not quite as much as I liked watching, say, Doctor Who, or whichever horror films I could get away with, but I liked them.

In 1982, one series of books ensured that my nose would remain buried in books for a fair chunk of the decade.  Fighting Fantasy books hit Britain's high streets in a big way: interactive affairs in which YOU were the hero, flitting between paragraphs in a decidedly non-linear fashion, in order to determine how a continu...

A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home: An Excerpt

Dear friend,

This is no chain letter, hoax or prank.

It is a sincere warning about your home and the entity which dwells within.

Your home has been haunted for quite some time.

I am sorry that I could not personally deliver this document.  I did not even post it myself.  The postmark on the envelope will not help you, should you ever attempt to locate me.  When this letter is complete, I shall entrust a friend in another country with repackaging and sending it on my behalf.  This...

"I Will Make Sure You Burn!" - The Writer's Mind & The KLF

I was woken at 5.21 this morning by violent shouting.

Half asleep, I couldn't tell whether this shouting was happening in the streets below, or next door on the other side of the bedroom wall.  It had been loud enough to wake me and was certainly a very vocal debate between a man and a woman.

My reaction was mainly irritation until the man yelled, "I will make sure you burn!".

This phrase was barked out in a style very much befitting a man deranged.  More like "I.  Will.  Make....

Kindle Fiction Updates

Hello!  Now you look great, but please stop grooming yourself and listen up.

In September, my novella Beast In The Basement was fired into the eyeballs of an unsuspecting public.  It's a twisty, turny, shocky horror-thriller story about personal responsibility, revenge, obsession and censorship.

Then in October came A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home.  That one's a short (well, if you can call 10,000 words short) ghost story which simply aims to scare the hell out o...

A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home

Most nights this year, I've attempted to leave the Twittersphere with a chill in its very soul.

Just before bed, I often sign off with an attempt at a disquieting goodnight-tweet.  It's fun, trying to generate unease with 140 characters or less, and I'm sure I'll continue to do it.

After a while, I realised this was good research.  I was testing the waters with frightening ideas.  Which goodnight-tweets provoked the biggest response from people mock-chiding me for ruining t...

Beast In The Basement Competition: Week Four

Time flies!  Here we are in Week Four, the final week of this series of pre-Halloween competitions.  The first week's prize was a copy of action blockbuster The Raid on DVD or Blu Ray.  The second week's prize was an exclusive Sinister quad poster.  Week Three's prize has been the supernatural shocker Stormhouse on DVD.

The deadline for Week Three's prize announcement has arrived.  Having drawn a random number using Random.org, I can reveal the winner is... Justine Lar...

Beast In The Basement Competition: Week Three

Here we are in Week Three of this series of pre-Halloween competitions.  The first week's prize was a copy of action blockbuster The Raid on DVD or Blu Ray.  The second week's prize has been an exclusive Sinister quad poster.

The deadline for Week Two's prize announcement has arrived.  Having drawn a random number using Random.org, I can reveal the winner is... Rob Stickler, aka @robstickler on the Twitter.  Splendid work, Rob!  The Sinister poster will be with yo...

Beast In The Basement Competition: Week # 2

Last Friday, this series of pre-Halloween competitions kicked off, with the first prize being a copy of action blockbuster The Raid on DVD or Blu Ray.

The deadline for that prize announcement has arrived.  Having drawn a random number using Random.org, I can reveal the winner is... Stephen Fallows, aka @falcoholism on the Twitter.  Splendid work, Stephen!

It's time to commence Week Two of the ongoing competition,  in which you can win a theatrical quad poster for the horror movie...

Beast In The Basement: Competition # 1

Remember my recent mention of a competition for buyers of my horror novella Beast In The Basement?  This was the truth.  In fact, there'll be weekly competitions from now 'til Halloween.  A series of prize draws which you only have to enter once.

The first competition starts NOW, on Friday, September 28.  It will end at 11.50am GMT on Friday October 5.  Every Friday in October, I'll randomly select one buyer of Beast In The Basement who'll win the latest priz...