Following on from the success of their previous events, Twisted Tales will host 'Dark Conspiracies', an evening of readings and stimulating discussion, on Tuesday 23 October, 7-9:30 pm, at Halton Lea Library, Runcorn.  Ramsey Campbell, Simon Bestwick and Stephen McGeagh are due to read from their work, and the event will end off with a Q&A session and book-signing.   Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance from paranormalweel at gmail dot com.  For further information, see the Facebook link here.

Just in my own stuff I’ve moved from imitating Lovecraft to a more contemporary style of psychological horror (a trajectory Robert Bloch’s career also described) and tried to bring the supernatural tale up to my own date (as Fritz Leiber, another author influenced early in his career by HPL, magnificently did). Every so often I make a bid to scale the heights of awe that Blackwood and Machen’s greatest tales occupy. And maybe I’ve even discovered my own little niche in the genre, which I’d call comedy of paranoia. To sum up, I haven’t discovered the limits of the field, and I doubt I will.

Join celebrated writers Jeremy Dyson (League of Gentlemen, Ghost Stories) and Ramsey Campbell (The House on Nazareth Hill, Grin of the Dark) at Waterstones in Liverpool ONE as they each read a deliciously dark tale of the macabre between 6-7pm on Wednesday 30 March.

Join Ramsey Campbell, Conrad Williams, Nicholas Royle, and Tom Fletcher as they each read a deliciously dark tale of the macabre...