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Interview at Geek Retro-Spective

A new interview with the author by Shaun McClure is up now. Unearthing treasures, blending genres, 70s information films, the problems with history and many bookish things! See the Geek Retro-Spective Youtube channel.


British Fantasy Award Shortlisted

A CURIOUS CARTOGRAPHY has been shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award in the Best Collection category. The collection contains twenty short stories that chart a writer’s journey and range across the globe, from Vietnam to Sweden, from London to New Read more…


The Operculum Necklace at The Dark

My short story, The Operculum Necklace, is now available to read online at The Dark. Set in Victorian times, the tale begins with a small child’s fear of a necklace that appears to be made of eyes . . . Read more…


A Curious Cartography in Review

“A brilliant collection of different types of unsettling stories from the past to the present with a host of lost souls about to find their lives changed forever. It reminds us that Littlewood is an incredibly skilled storyteller…” Read the Read more…


News about A Curious Cartography

The paperback of my short story collection, A CURIOUS CARTOGRAPHY, is coming in May 2024 and is available to pre-order now at Black Shuck Books. The limited edition signed hardback is now fully sold out. The twenty short stories in A Read more…


Mini Collection: The Flowering

The Flowering is a micro-collection, published as one of Black Shuck’s popular Shadows series. It features six short stories, all set in the Victorian era: The Zoetrope, The Marvellous Talking Machine, Meet Me at the Frost Fair, The Ballad Box, The Winter Read more…


Close to Midnight and a Best Of Pick

Two lovely bits of writing news! My story ‘In the Wabe’ has been selected for the upcoming Flame Tree Press anthology Close to Midnight, edited by Mark Morris. There’s a terrific line-up, so it’s lovely to be involved! It’s a Read more…


ParSec – and a Cottingley Cuckoo review

It’s lovely to see PS Publishing’s new ParSec magazine heading out into the world, with the ever-capable Ian Whates in the editor’s seat. There’s a terrific line-up of fiction between the covers, which I’m most looking forward to reading – Read more…


Midsummer Macabre

Join us at Midsummer Macabre for story readings by the authors! This video showcase features stories by me, Simon Clark, Paul Finch and host Joseph Freeman. My story is an abridged version of The July Girls, which was first published Read more…


Endangered Shorelines

There’s a really interesting analysis of my short story, The Headland of Black Rock, in this article – Endangered Shorelines and Absent Solastalgia In Recent English, Irish and Northern Irish Short Fiction. It’s by Katharina Andrea Kalthoff and LeonieWindt-Wetzel and Read more…