As well as the books below, you can also find my favourite individual stories read in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023.
Robert Aickman: Night Voices, The Strangers & Other Writings
Nina Allan: The Race
Stephen Bacon: Peel Back The Sky
Annabel Banks: Exercises In Control
Andrew David Barker: The Electric, Dead Leaves
Matthew M Bartlett: Gateways To Abomination
Simon Bestwick: The Faceless
Simon Bestwick & Gary McMahon: Thin Men With Yellow Faces
Nina Allan: The Race
Stephen Bacon: Peel Back The Sky
Annabel Banks: Exercises In Control
Andrew David Barker: The Electric, Dead Leaves
Matthew M Bartlett: Gateways To Abomination
Simon Bestwick: The Faceless
Simon Bestwick & Gary McMahon: Thin Men With Yellow Faces
Duncan P. Bradshaw: And So The Night Did Claim Them
Daniel Braum: The Wish Mechanics
Keith Brooke: The Accord "Mind-bogglingly good head-fuck science fiction."
Eric Brown: Ghostwriting
Keith Brooke: The Accord "Mind-bogglingly good head-fuck science fiction."
Eric Brown: Ghostwriting
Steve Byrne: Phoenix
Pat Cadigan: Chalk
Ramsey Campbell: Dark Feasts, Just Behind You, The Overnight, Holes For Faces, The Searching Dead
Ted Chiang: Stories Of Your Life And Others
Ramsey Campbell: Dark Feasts, Just Behind You, The Overnight, Holes For Faces, The Searching Dead
Ted Chiang: Stories Of Your Life And Others
Eliza Clarke: Boy Parts
Joanna Corrance: John's Eyes
MR Cosby: Dying Embers, The Trains Don't Stop Here
Nicole Cushing: Children Of No One, I Am The New God
Roald Dahl: The Witches
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Kristi DeMeester: Beneath
Malcolm Devlin: You Will Grow Into Them
MR Cosby: Dying Embers, The Trains Don't Stop Here
Nicole Cushing: Children Of No One, I Am The New God
Roald Dahl: The Witches
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Kristi DeMeester: Beneath
Malcolm Devlin: You Will Grow Into Them
Robert Dunbar: Willy, Martyrs & Monsters
E.M. Forster: Where Angels Fear To Tread
Phillip Fracassi: Altar
E.M. Forster: Where Angels Fear To Tread
Phillip Fracassi: Altar
Gary Fry: The Respectable Face Of Tyranny, Lurker, Emergence, What They Find In The Woods, The Doom That Came To Whitby Town, Mutator, The Death Of Boys
Cate Gardner: Strange Men In Pinstripe Suits, Theatre Of Curious Acts, Barbed Wire Hearts, The Bureau Of Them
Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie: The Phonogram series, and The Wicked & Divine series
Charles L Grant: Nightmare Seasons
Terry Grimwood: Soul Masque
Adam Golaski: Worse Than Myself
Elizabeth Hand: Wyldling Hall
Robert Holdstock & Gary Kilworth: The Ragthorn
Cate Gardner: Strange Men In Pinstripe Suits, Theatre Of Curious Acts, Barbed Wire Hearts, The Bureau Of Them
Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie: The Phonogram series, and The Wicked & Divine series
Charles L Grant: Nightmare Seasons
Terry Grimwood: Soul Masque
Adam Golaski: Worse Than Myself
Elizabeth Hand: Wyldling Hall
Robert Holdstock & Gary Kilworth: The Ragthorn
Claire C. Holland: I Am Not Your Final Girl
Shirley Jackson: The Road Through The Wall, Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest & all the famous ones
Lauren James: The Side Effects Of The Medication
Timothy J. Jarvis: The Wanderer
Stephen Graham Jones: The Elvis Room
Shirley Jackson: The Road Through The Wall, Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest & all the famous ones
Lauren James: The Side Effects Of The Medication
Timothy J. Jarvis: The Wanderer
Stephen Graham Jones: The Elvis Room
Austin Grossman: Crooked
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Chris Kelso: Unger House Radicals
Stephen King: IT, Salem's Lot, IT again
DH Lawrence: The Mosquito
VH Leslie: Skein & Bone, Bodies Of Water
Ira Levin: A Kiss Before Dying, The Stepford Wives
Alison Littlewood: The Unquiet House, A Cold Season, Cottingley, Mistletoe
Kevin Lucia: Through A Mirror, Darkly
Tim Major: Carus & Mitch
Helen Marshall:Gifts For The One Who Comes After, Hair Side Flesh Side
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Chris Kelso: Unger House Radicals
Stephen King: IT, Salem's Lot, IT again
DH Lawrence: The Mosquito
VH Leslie: Skein & Bone, Bodies Of Water
Ira Levin: A Kiss Before Dying, The Stepford Wives
Alison Littlewood: The Unquiet House, A Cold Season, Cottingley, Mistletoe
Kevin Lucia: Through A Mirror, Darkly
Tim Major: Carus & Mitch
Helen Marshall:Gifts For The One Who Comes After, Hair Side Flesh Side
Laura Mauro: Sing Your Sadness Deep
J.A.W. McCarthy: Sometimes We're Cruel
Jon McGregor: Reservoir 13
Gary McMahon: In The Skin, Pretty Little Dead Things, Dead Bad Things, Tales Of The Weak & Wounded, The Night Just Got Darker, The End, The Grieving Stones
Jon McGregor: Reservoir 13
Gary McMahon: In The Skin, Pretty Little Dead Things, Dead Bad Things, Tales Of The Weak & Wounded, The Night Just Got Darker, The End, The Grieving Stones
China Mieville: The City And The City
Cristina Mîrzoi: The Headsman
S.P. Miskowski: Knock Knock, Delphine Dodd, Astoria, In The Light
Michael McDowell: The Elementals
S.P. Miskowski: Knock Knock, Delphine Dodd, Astoria, In The Light
Michael McDowell: The Elementals
Steven Moffat: The Day Of The Doctor
Alison Moore: The Pre-War House & Other Stories; Missing
Sunny Moraine: Singing With All My Skin & Bone
Steve Mosby: Black Flowers, Dark Room, I Know Who Did It
Adam Nevill: The Ritual, House Of Small Shadows, No One Gets Out Alive, Lost Girl, Some Will Not Sleep
Jon Padgett: The Secret Of Ventriloquism
Michelle Paver: Dark Matter, Thin Air
Sarah Pinborough: The Language Of Dying, The Death House
Kit Power: The Finite
Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites (+ nearly all the other Discworld books).
Christopher Priest: The Affirmation; The Prestige
Laura Purcell: The Silent Companions
Priya Sharma: All The Fabulous Beasts
Robert Shearman: Love Songs For The Shy & Cynical, Everyone's Just So So Special
Christopher Slatsky: Alectryomancer & Other Weird Tales
Phil Sloman: Becoming David, Broken On The Inside
Anthologies & Magazines:
Aickman's Heirs, ed. Simon Strantzas
Asian Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir
Horror Uncut, ed. Joel Lane & Tom Johnstone
House Of Fear, ed. Jonathan Oliver
Alison Moore: The Pre-War House & Other Stories; Missing
Sunny Moraine: Singing With All My Skin & Bone
Steve Mosby: Black Flowers, Dark Room, I Know Who Did It
Adam Nevill: The Ritual, House Of Small Shadows, No One Gets Out Alive, Lost Girl, Some Will Not Sleep
Jon Padgett: The Secret Of Ventriloquism
Michelle Paver: Dark Matter, Thin Air
Sarah Pinborough: The Language Of Dying, The Death House
Kit Power: The Finite
Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites (+ nearly all the other Discworld books).
Christopher Priest: The Affirmation; The Prestige
Laura Purcell: The Silent Companions
Iain Rowan: Ice Age, One Of Us, Nowhere To Go, Sea Change, 52 Songs, 52 Stories
I.F. Rowan: Welcome To The Underworld
Nicholas Royle: Ornithology, The Dummy
Lynda E Rucker: The Moon Will Look Strange, You'll Know When You Get There
I.F. Rowan: Welcome To The Underworld
Nicholas Royle: Ornithology, The Dummy
Lynda E Rucker: The Moon Will Look Strange, You'll Know When You Get There
Alan Ryker:,When Cthulhu Met Atlach Nacha, The Hoard, Dream Of The Serpent; Burden Kansas
Jose Saramago: The Double
Neil Schiller: Oblivious, (Slight Return)Priya Sharma: All The Fabulous Beasts
Robert Shearman: Love Songs For The Shy & Cynical, Everyone's Just So So Special
Christopher Slatsky: Alectryomancer & Other Weird Tales
Phil Sloman: Becoming David, Broken On The Inside
Simon Strantzas: Nightingale Songs
David Surface: Terrible Things
Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance
Stephen Volk: Whitstable, Leytonstone, The Little Gift
Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger, Affinity
D.P. Watt: Almost Insentient, Almost Divine
David Surface: Terrible Things
Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance
Stephen Volk: Whitstable, Leytonstone, The Little Gift
Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger, Affinity
D.P. Watt: Almost Insentient, Almost Divine
Neil Williamson: Secret Language
Anthologies & Magazines:
Aickman's Heirs, ed. Simon Strantzas
Asian Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir
Horror Uncut, ed. Joel Lane & Tom Johnstone
House Of Fear, ed. Jonathan Oliver
Impossible Spaces, ed. Hannah Kate
Infinities, ed. Keith Brooke: a brilliant sampler and advert for the Infinity Plus press
Infinities, ed. Keith Brooke: a brilliant sampler and advert for the Infinity Plus press
Pretty much any volume of Shadows & Tall Trees, ed. Michael Kelly from Undertow press
Also, pretty much any volume of Supernatural Tales, ed. David Longhorn
And again, pretty much any volume of Tales From The Shadow Booth, ed. Dan Coxon
The Weird, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer
The Weird, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer
Uncertainties V, ed. Brian J. Showers - has an intro that should be read by all authors & connoisseurs of creepy, unsettling fiction. And the stories that follow more than live up to its promise.
Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume 1, ed. Michael Kelly & Laird Barron
Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume 2, ed. Michael Kelly & Kathe Koja
Non-Fiction
S.J. Bagley (ed): Thinking Horror #1
Non-Fiction
S.J. Bagley (ed): Thinking Horror #1
Dan Coxon (ed): Writing The Uncanny
Robert Dunbar: Vortex
Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
S.T. Joshi: The Modern Weird Tale
Joel Lane: This Spectacular Darkness: Critical Essays
Joel Lane: This Spectacular Darkness: Critical Essays
Paul StJohn Mackintosh: Casting The Runes RPG
