Nestled within it, among wayward roots, and stiffened by a thin layer of ice, a body of impossible size lay in repose.

A Ceremony In A Place Best Forgotten

This morning it's an Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree kind of day.

My band are making their tri-monthly pilgrimage to Warsaw next weekend. I've alerted the city to their impending arrival – imagine the stargate scene in 2001, and then multiply that tenfold.

Our mission: to undo the space-time continuum and to defy all earthly expectations.

The Resurrection Children.

Set in Liverpool during the coldest winter on record, a young teacher searches for his missing sister. Pitted against a supernatural entity and a serial killer, the question is how far will he go to uncover the truth?

The face hovered above the pavement with a disorienting horizontal flatness. There was a gradual right-hand rotation of the neck, a clockwork key was turning and lengthening the trapezius muscles. How could they maintain the position without toppling forward?

They Cannot Know Until It Is Too Late

Simon Kurt Unsworth's latest book has arrived. A Gathering of the Morose, published by Black Shuck Books, is part of the micro-collection series Black Shuck Shadows.

I stood there, refusing to incriminate myself in whatever lurked behind her words, waiting for her to continue. She turned to somebody I could barely see, a figure in the smoke behind her—someone unanchored, somebody whose mouth opened and closed in soundless agreement.

The No Longer Lost

This is an excerpt/sentence from a novel I have yet to submit.

Like your teenage nephew, whose anxiety has resurfaced to alarming levels, emanating out of him like a warning to stay away, here lies human radioactivity.

Interior Lives

The river was perfect at distracting me from my late-night wanderings, a cliché that I enjoyed and one which I played with consummate ease.

Mountains of Smoke

His eyes searched the misted surface beyond, where lifebuoys tipped back and forth like a dozen disembodied heads in unison to the metrical lapping of the waves against their round metal bodies.

The Resurrection Children (Demain Publishing).

A wailing banshee of outrage, vulnerability wielded like a sledgehammer.

Interior Lives: Four Walls

I revamped an old trailer and outtake from my short film Response Time to accompany a story from my upcoming sixth collection, We Take Them When You're Not Looking, due out in March 2026 from Uncomfortably Dark Horror.