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"Later", a short film by Simon Duric

Note:
It's my opinion that the "Later" experience (for both the short story and the short film) is made all the better by not knowing what's coming, by letting the piece of work guide you and confound you and move you without prior knowledge. To that end, this review/essay won't give you a blow-by-blow plot breakdown but there might be minor spoilers within in. You've been warned!


Sometime in

Drive, a novella

It's now public and official, so I can announce that Chris Teague's Pendragon Press will be publishing my 'dark urban thriller' "Drive", probably next year. I have a real soft spot for this (which was inspired when I was driving to Luton airport at 3am to catch a plane for a business trip and found I was the only person on the M1).

Chris writes, "A departure from Mark's horror writing, though

Some love for "The Mill"

Anthony Watson has posted a review of "The Mill" at his website and, as a writer, it makes for very pleasant reading.

He says, "The emotional content genuinely is moving and is never mawkish or sentimental and the conclusion fits in perfectly with - and is as moving as - everything that's gone before."

Can't ask for better than that, can you?


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In The Rain With The Dead

"In The Rain With The Dead" is now available as an eBook from Tim C Taylor's Greyhart Press.

This is a revised, leaner version of the novel, which originally appeared from Pendragon Press in 2005 (an edition that is completely sold out now). "In The Rain With The Dead" features Jim and Nadia, once teenaged sweethearts, reunited now after a decade apart and Magellan, a demon who is desperate to

My FantasyCon Report

Brighton - 30th September to 2nd October 2011

Friday 30th SeptemberI dropped Matthew at school, then Jay Eales & Selina Lock picked me up and we set off on our ROADTRIP! down to London. We had a playlist of CDs but didn't need them, chattering all the way, though as the traffic was quite heavy and the sun was very hot, it perhaps wasn't quite as glamorous as we'd all perhaps expected. Having

Dead & Buried

When Michael Wilson asked me to be involved with his new horror film site, See-Horror, I jumped at the chance. He liked the reviews I'd been doing for VideoVista and asked what I'd like to do. I suggested revisiting old films that had somehow fallen through the cracks, he liked it, so off I went.

My first film in the Retrospectives section is "Dead & Buried". You can read the essay/review

The Mill

"The Mill" is now available as an eBook, from Tim C Taylor's Greyhart Press.

Previously published in the acclaimed Pendragon Press anthology "We Fade To Grey" (edited by Gary McMahon), "The Mill" is a story about grief, guilt and coughing ghosts and, according to Mark Morris, "is one of the most moving pieces of writing I have read in a long time".

If you choose to give it a chance - and I hope

More love for "Conjure"

The wonderful writer Greg James has just finished reading "Conjure" and left this mini-review on my Facebook wall. I'm really quite chuffed about it!
"What really worked for me about this novel was its evocation of the decaying resort towns along the coast of East Anglia that I grew up in as well as supernatural elements that were reminiscent of folktales from the same area. In this way, it is a

A "Drive-by" interview with me

Thanks to the lovely - and very talented - Angela Slatter, I have a new interview up at her website, as part of her drive-by interview series.

Check it out here

Alt-Dead is here

Freshly available at Amazon right now (in a gorgeous print edition and also as a Kindle eBook) is "Alt-Dead", edited by Peter Mark May and featuring a whole host of cracking writers and stories (including one by me, but don't let that put you off!). It also has some pretty nifty cover art too!

Click the link and give some small press writers a chance!