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Out now: Shadows on the Water

Gorgeous, innit?

Happy to announce the publication of Shadows on the Water from Flame Tree Publishing, which features my short story To Take the Water Down and Go to Sleep.

This gorgeous book is stacked with so many amazing authors and stories, both classic and contemporary, and is a must for Gothic Fantasy & Horror readers.

Don’t delay, order your copy today!

https://mybook.to/shadowsonthewater

Cheers for reading,

Frazer x

Happy Goat Horror’s Top 10 Horror Novels of 2023

Thanks to Happy Goat Horror for including my novel Greyfriars Reformatory in their Top 10 Horror Novels of 2023! Some amazing authors & books on this list, it’s a great honour.

https://happygoathorror.com/2024/01/05/my-top-10-horror-novels-of-2023/

A nervous glance back at 2023 & a cheeky peek forward to 2024

As i sat beside the fire last night, nursing a Guinness & burning the Yule Log & last year’s Xmas tree offcut, i got to thinking about the importance of rituals in daily life.

And, as is customary on this blog, it’s time once more to ritualistically take a quick look back at events of last year before stepping into the unfolding mystery of the new.

(I know these year-in-review posts can be the last thing you might wish to read if you’re struggling right now. If that’s the case, I’d jus...

#TheCure concerts I have known & loved: Hammersmith Apollo, 21 & 22 December 2014

©️Frazer Lee

Hard to believe it’s already nine(!?) years since The Cure played their festive run of gigs at the Hammersmith Apollo, a venue that keeps changing its name but which to me will always be, well… Hammersmith Apollo.

There was a lot of speculation from fans online about the gigs. Would they be like the Trilogy shows? Would they play the Top, The Head on the Door, and Kiss Me albums over the three nights? Would there be new songs?

©️The Cure

The announcement of the support a...

Happy 60th, #DoctorWho

Photo © Frazer Lee

Seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating the 50th & yet somehow today is the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who’s first appearance on our tellybox screens!

I remember an excitable & (much) younger me dragging my poor Grandmother around the Dr Who Exhibition in Blackpool like it was yesterday too…

And as a grown up (or perhaps because I refused to become one!?) I feel very blessed indeed to have been allowed to make my own small contribution to the Whoniverse du...

Check out Happy Goat Horror’s review of my novel #GreyfriarsReformatory

Greyfriars Reformatory – by Frazer Lee – Book Review

Grateful to Happy Goat Horror for this thoughtful review of Greyfriars Reformatory. Here’s a snippet.

“Lee’s character work is great. We have five young women thrust together in this old girls’ reformatory, and Principal Quick who is in charge […] I had no trouble distinguishing between them as their personalities were all so strong and fully-formed. I love a writer who can just drop individuals into a story like that.”

Read the ...

Coming in 2024! Shadows on the Water…

Thrilled to have my short story ‘To Take the Water Down and Go to Sleep’ in this gorgeous anthology from Flame Tree Press (publishers of my novels Hearthstone Cottage & Greyfriars Reformatory).

Never in a million years would I have dreamt that my work would be in a book with Bram Stoker & so many luminaries.

Can’t wait to read them all!

The book is out January 2024 (February 2024 in North America).

Full Table of Contents and further details here.

Thanks for reading,
Frazer...

#TheCure concerts I have known & loved: Crystal Palace Bowl, 11th August 1990

The hot ticket of that Summer!

This time 33 years ago(!) I was aboard a coach & stuck in traffic en route from sunny Staffordshire to an even sunnier Crystal Palace for the event of the year — The Garden Party.

For their South London Pleasure Trips show The Cure had put together a dream lineup with All About Eve, James & Lush providing sonic support.

I remember packing 2 cassette tapes in my bag (Scarlet & Other Stories by the Eves and the B52s Cosmic Thing) and persuaded the coach ...

#TheCure concerts I have known & loved: Finsbury Park, 13th June 1993

Thirty years(!) ago today I was in a London park in the sunshine, rocking my socks (and my paratrooper boots) off.

Still got the ticket! And the tee!

Great X-pectations was a special one-day gig in support of indie radio station XFM. Around this time, The Cure had taken to the airwaves and hosted Cure FM a weekend of choons (and by all accounts also a weekend of debauched, erm, XS) on the station, which was pitching for a London-wide license so it could bring the magic to the masses. Rather...

Celebrating The Daniel Gates Adventures paperback release!

Celebrating the publication of my occult horror novella series The Daniel Gates Adventures in paperback by baking a batch of banana and chocolate mini muffins (with a fresh pot of coffee as standard).

Previously available in ebook or very limited hardcover only, this paperback release means all of my books are now in print!

I hope you’ll pick up a copy and let me know what you think of the stories.

Contained within the pages of this handsome paperback are four novellas: The Lucifer...