Simon Bestwick

My new novella, Jaeger , will be published on 29th February by Black Shuck Books. It's a follow-up to my earlier novella Roth-Steyr , pi...

Well I had a different first post planned for 2022, but I couldn't let this go by unannounced - Black Shuck Books are relaunching the fi...

It's been... eventful since I last blogged. Not all of it is stuff I can talk about publicly right now, and not all of it's good. Th...

So, two nights ago I got an email from Ellen Datlow, about a short story of mine called 'A Treat For Your Last Day,' letting me know...

I have a new mini-collection coming out from Black Shuck Books. It's called Nine Ghosts. There are nine stories. There are nine ghosts. ...

Normally, I try to list the various things (hopefully nice ones) that the week has had in store, but this week-and-a-bit (various things pop...

Sorry, Dave - I only had room  for one author picture!   A Different Kind Of Light is released by Black Shuck Books on February 25th, and ...

So, another week ends, and the lockdown rolls on. Hope you've all been keeping well. Meanwhile, at Castle Bestwick, a few little victori...

The main event of the last week has been my first appearance in Horrified Magazine ! 'In The City In The Smog', a dark and hallucina...

Jon's the one in the middle. Jonathan Oliver is an award winning editor and writer. Once a former 2000 AD droid, he is best known as t...

2020 has been, I think we can all agree, a bloody weird year. I'm not even going to try to summarise all the weird shit - the political ...

Joseph Freeman's seasonal ghost story extravaganza, Winter Tales , is now live on his YouTube channel . It features readings by Ramsey C...

In the words of Dr Frank-N-Furter: "Tonight is the night that my beautiful creature is destined to be born!" Or at least, download...

I meant to write a ghost story especially for the occasion, to help promote Roth-Steyr , but then again Roth-Steyr is the new story I have ...

Another day dawns, and we're another night closer to Halloween and the launch of Roth-Steyr . And so here I am, yattering away to those ...

Saturday brings both the best night of the year, and the launch of my novella Roth-Steyr from Black Shuck Books! My skull-shaped goblet of ...

It's very hard to believe that it's nineteen years since the World Trade Centre attacks in New York. I remember very clearly what I ...

The strangeness that is 2020 continues. I'm still off work, as I have been all year, trying to find a way back through the anxiety maze....

Sean is a writer and filmmaker living in Margate. He has published three books to date:  England's Screaming, Three Mothers, One Fat...

John Llewellyn Probert's latest book is the British Fantasy Award-nominated The Last Temptation of Dr Valentine , the second sequel to...