It’s not a metaphor. Call your mum. Call your best friend. Do the things you love even if you think you’re too tired to do them. You’ll feel better afterwards. Go for a walk. Talk to strangers. Stop trying to make the world so convenient that you forget to live.
Author Interview
Jasper Bark Interview Part 2: Harmed and Dangerous, Bark Bites Horror, and the Stories That Can Kill
After a career that includes on-air banana incidents, Bonfire Night riots, and a near shooting by Rupert Murdoch’s bodyguard, Jasper Bark has learned to push boundaries. The first half of our conversation covered his river gypsy upbringing, his theatre bans, and the moment his wife nearly grabbed a kitchen knife. Now we move to the work itself. His fiction.
Jasper Bark Interview: The Horror Writer Who Became the Story – Part 1
A life lived at the edges, where the only way out is further in. Jasper Bark Interview: The Horror Writer Who Became the Story – Part 1 A horror writer’s biography usually reads like a dust jacket afterthought, a few tame lines about cats and teaching jobs. With Jasper Bark, … Jasper Bark Interview: The Horror Writer Who Became the Story – Part 1Read more
The Hospital at the End of the World: Justin C. Key on AI Medicine, Human Healing, and the Mysteries of Consciousness
What happens to healing when machines replace human touch? In his electrifying debut novel, The Hospital at the End of the World, acclaimed speculative fiction writer and practising psychiatrist Justin C. Key delivers a gripping medical thriller that pits human intuition against artificial intelligence in a battle for the soul of … The Hospital at the End of the World: Justin C. Key on AI Medicine, Human Healing, and the Mysteries of ConsciousnessRead more
Anthony Ferguson is Resting in Pieces
Anthony Ferguson is an author and editor living in Perth, Australia. He has published over seventy short stories and non-fiction articles in Australia, Britain and the United States. He wrote the novel Protégé, the non-fiction books, The Sex Doll: A History, and Murder Down Under, edited the short-story collection Devil Dolls and … Anthony Ferguson is Resting in PiecesRead more
Southern Gothic, poetic prose: Horror maestro Michael Wehunt
“I’m fascinated by death, but even more so by those who are left behind after it, that feeling of sorrow that is so large, it seems that it will never end and maybe shouldn’t end. Inconsolability can come to be an identity of sorts, and that’s partly where the collection … Southern Gothic, poetic prose: Horror maestro Michael WehuntRead more
“What needs to happen is a unification of the genre – filmmakers, authors, musicians, fans”
“What needs to happen is a unification of the genre – filmmakers, authors, musicians, fans” Interview with New Zealand short story writer and novelist Denver Grenell By Michael Botur Denver Grenell is a writer of horror & dark fiction who lives with his family in the small rural town New … “What needs to happen is a unification of the genre – filmmakers, authors, musicians, fans”Read more