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R.R. Newman

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Raymond Chandler, Ruth Rendell, Gladys Mitchell, James Ellroy

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I grew up in Somerset and Devon, lived in London and Penzance, and am now based in Bristol. I'm fascinated by the dark side of West Country life – ditches, dark woods and declining towns where people go to disappear. ...more

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The Grave Digger's Boy

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Horror Hotels: you can check in but…

Hotels are fundamentally weird places and the sense of unease they prompt is powerful fuel for weird stories.

Even before we consider aspects of the uncanny, and the hotel in weird fiction, the very concept of the hotel is troubling. 

You’re telling me I’m going to a strange town to sleep in a strange room, in a strange house, where someone I don’t know has a master key to my room?

It’s no wonder

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Intervals of Darkness by Ray Newman
"There are certainly stories here which could huddle under the umbrella of the subgenre Ray self-defined with the title of his first collection, Municipal Gothic. The slipshod academics of MR James are updated into a John Harris-esque purveyor of half" Read more of this review »
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