February 19, 2017
A new short story, The Orphan Bird, has just been published in this new anthology of avian tales edited by Ellen Datlow. The full table of contents is: O Terrible Bird by Sandra Kasturi The Obscure Bird by Nicholas Royle (reprint) Read more…
August 5, 2015
Those lovely folks at Nightmare Magazine have just run another one of my stories – this time a tale set in the wild Croatian forests, called Wolves and Witches and Bears. They’ve also produced it in audio and run an Read more…
I was recently contacted by Meagan Meehan, a lovely lady who asked if I’d like to be featured in an author spotlight in The Examiner. Meagan had read my short story Black Feathers, which was featured in Ellen Datlow’s The Read more…
July 15, 2015
I’m absolutely thrilled and delighted to have won a Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction! The awards were presented on Sunday alongside Readercon. The award was given for The Dog’s Home, which appeared in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Read more…
March 18, 2015
A while back, the very lovely Simon Clark approached me to ask if I’d contribute a story to a new anthology of Sherlock Holmes tales – The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad. I must admit, I took a very Read more…
May 29, 2012
Those clever people at Tales to Terrify have included one of my short stories in their latest podcast – number 20. You can listen here: http://talestoterrify.com/ ‘4 a.m. When the Walls are Thinnest’ was first published in the Ghosts issue Read more…
April 21, 2012
Copies of the special limited edition hardback of A Cold Season have landed . . . and they look stunning! I knew they would be lovely, coming from PS Publishing, but I was blown away by just how lovely they Read more…
I was absolutely thrilled recently to hear that About the Dark, my short story that first appeared in Black Static magazine, has been picked by Stephen Jones for the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #23. I’ve got a stack Read more…
February 28, 2012
It’s especially nice to be the featured author in Black Static magazine (issue 27) from TTA Press. I first picked up a copy of the magazine back when I was an aspiring writer of short genre fiction (though it was Read more…
January 21, 2012
I was thrilled to hear that Black Feathers, a short story that was first published in issue 22 of Black Static magazine, has been selected for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume 4. Really pleased too for Simon Read more…