My events page has been updated with the latest postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic (which is something no horror writer expects to type outside of one of their own stories).
I hope to see some of you in person sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Meantime, best wishes and stay safe everyone x
Excited to see #TheStayMovie in Official Selection at the prestigious Lift-Off Global Network Sessions, March 2020. Visit thestaymovie.wordpress.com for more info!
Thrilled to have our folk horror film The Stayselected for Lift-Off Global Network Sessions, which is an online movie contest taking place in March 2020.
The first round of voting is open to the public via the festival’s Vimeo channel.
The second round is Jury voting and narrows the final 5 films down to an overall winner.
Best of luck to all the selected filmmakers!
Many thanks to all at #creepytreefilmfestival for this amazing award!
And to the cast, crew and supporters of #TheStayMovie – couldn’t have done it without you – thanks again!
via Writer/Director Frazer Lee awarded Creepy Tree Film Festival Exemplar Award for #TheStayMovie
Way back when, at the Horror Writers Association‘s now-annual event Stokercon, I presented a paper-in-progress on Koji Suzuki‘s seminal J-horror novel Ringu at the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference.
After the event, Annradcon organisers Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak kindly invited me to submit my research as a Chapter for their forthcoming book, which is out now from McFarland with a foreword by former HWA President Lisa Morton and an afterword by Becky Spratford.
Horror Literature From Gothic to Post-Modern – Critical Essays, covers a wealth of topics, from children’s literature to Aboriginal tales, and is a must-read for any horror scholar. My chapter covers Ringu, and its many sequels and adaptations, from a world literary perspective.
As with all academic texts Horror Literature… is pricey it’s true, but there is a Kindle version available for e-readers, which halves the cost.
You can discover other purchasing options at Goodreads.
Congratulations to editors Michele & Nick on birthing this beautiful beast of a book – the first academic textbook from the HWA. And may many more follow!
Oh, and a word of warning from The Ring: “Before you die you see the ring.”
Enjoy!
I tried something new on my Instagram feed this week, posting sneak peeks from my new book cover in sections (which form the ‘bigger picture’ when viewing my profile grid).
I am pleased with the reactions it got from readers!
And now that the social media experimentation is complete, I am posting the cover here.
Feast your eyes on the fear!
Whaddya think? You likey? Let me know in the Comments below!
Greyfriars Reformatory is coming October 2020 from Flame Tree Press.
To coin a phrase — if this one doesn’t scare you…you’re already dead!
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Pre-order from:
Amazon UK
Wordery
or from your local scary book store!
ISBN: 9781787584754
First festival Official Selection & Award Nomination of 2020, and a truly creep-tastic one!
We are delighted to announce that Frazer Lee‘s award winning folk horror film The Stay is officially selected for the 2020 Winter Festival Season at at Creepy Tree Film Festival.
The Stay has been nominated to receive the Creepy Tree Exemplar Award on February 29th.
Our thanks to all the Creepy Tree family for selecting, nominating & supporting our film!
Check Creepy Tree Film Festival out on Instagram, Facebook & search #creepytreefilmfestival for more creepy film fun.
Wondrous news from the wild woods of Scotland!
He’s back!
My third novel, The Jack in the Green, a folk horror tale set in Scotland (originally published by Samhain Publishing in 2013) is available again in a new paperback edition from Crossroad Press/Macabre Ink.
My thanks to the two Davids at Crossroad for making this happen.
He’s in the trees… He’s waiting…
Read The Jack in the Green:
A nightmare made real.
On Christmas Eve, six year-old Tom McRae witnessed an unspeakable atrocity that left him orphaned, his childhood in tatters. Now in his mid-thirties, Tom still has terrifying nightmares of that night. When Tom is sent to the remote Scottish village of Douglass to negotiate a land grab for his employer, it seems like a golden opportunity for him to start over. But Tom can’t help feeling he’s been to Douglass before, and the terrible dreams from his childhood have begun to spill over into his waking life. As murderous events unfold and Tom’s feverish nightmares escalate, he will discover the hideous truth behind the villagers’ strange pagan ritual of The Jack in the Green.
“An intriguing tale filled with genuine horror and a plot that explores some very dark territory” (Horror Novel Reviews)
“Quintessential British horror with vivid interludes of bodily trauma and mental anguish” (Keri O’Shea, Brutal As Hell)
“A romp of a book that combines pagan mythology with visceral contemporary action” (MikaReadsHorrorFiction)
“A captivating read that weaves a spell, leading you into the Scottish countryside to a village that isn’t all that it seems. The shocking ending makes this one of the most satisfying reads of the year. Frazer Lee scores again, big time.”
(Rating: 5/5, Hunter Shea, author of Forest of Shadows and Evil Eternal)
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