A quiet year, 2022
2022 has been my quietest year since I started writing seriously. Sure, I’ve continued to work on the novel, and I hope to ramp this up in 2023. And yes, I’ve been very busy on the music front, with new singles, a new album, and lots more to come. But with everything else that’s been…
Autumn flashes 2021
I guess the dark half of the year must be here because I have four new flash horrors to unleash on the world! On 3 September 2021, Dread Stone Press published The Pumpkin Agent, an urban legend-style story where the antagonist doesn’t take kindly to families who fail to decorate their homes for Halloween. On…
Kendall Reviews review: The Lamppost Huggers
Steve Stred, who previously championed my Short Sharp Shocks! publications (The Forest is Hungry, and Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions), has given The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales a glowing review for Kendall Reviews, and awarded it five stars in Goodreads. If you’re looking for a reading slump buster or something that is quick…
Book Tube: Video Reviews
Fellow Bristolian Ross Jeffery has recently moved his book reviews onto YouTube, giving them an authentic and personal touch that really enhances the experience. Over the past few months he’s recorded an incredible 52 videos, including The Forest is Hungry (#41) and Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions (#44). Please check them out – in fact…
The Horror Tree review: Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions
Another review has come in for Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions and I think it’s one of the best reviews I’ve had (and they’ve all been lovely). Here, I had an advantage: Alyson Faye (the reviewer) and I are both Birmingham University alumni, and with the title story being set on the Birmingham campus, it’s…
S J Budd review: Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions
Sarah Budd, who kindly reviewed The Lamppost Huggers earlier this year, has also reviewed my latest offering, Unbecoming Me & Other Wretched Tales, and she’s given it five stars on Goodreads. I’m so happy. I’ve had three reviews in so far, and each reviewer has had a different favourite – which is probably a good…
Publication Day: Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions
Another collection has been unleashed in the wild! This time it’s my three-story mini collection, Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions, which kicks off the second series of Short Sharp Shocks from Demain Publishing. The second story was ‘Hell’s Teeth,’ which to me was the highlight of the three. A twist on a classic fairy tale,…
Kendall Reviews review: Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions
My forthcoming short story collection, Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions has received a fantastic four-star review from Steve Stred at Kendall Reviews. Check out his review now, including what he liked, what he didn’t like, and why you should buy it. Each story is high on the creep factor and Stanley sucks the reader in…
New short story collection and interview
My new short story collection, Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions, will be published by Demain Publishing on 18 September 2020, and is available to pre-order now from Amazon UK and Amazon US. Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions will be book #51 in the Short Sharp Shocks! series, and the first book of season 2. The…
Cover Wars – Victory!
Well that was intense. Shortly before The Lamppost Huggers was published, I sketched out a marketing plan, and Cover Wars seemed like a refreshing change to the reviews and interviews that are the mainstay of our profession. I had no idea. Every week, five books go up against each other. On Sunday afternoon, the covers…
The Horror Tree interview
In my third (and final – for now) interview to promote The Lamppost Huggers, I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Lional Ray Green for The Horror Tree. We talked about a whole range of stuff, including writing with kids (a theme that crops up in the collection), my love of making music, and…
Ginger Nuts of Horror interview
Writers have blind spots – that’s why we can read the same typo a hundred times and not see it. Sometimes we make mistakes. This is why it’s so important to have beta readers and editors who are at the top of their game, and why we need to listen to their feedback. I recently…
Gwendolyn Kiste interview
Christopher and I discussed favorite authors, inspirations, and what’s next…Gwendolyn Kiste Gwendolyn Kiste is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Madiens, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, and Pretty Marys All in a Row. She’s also really nice. I’m a big fan of her short stories, and The Rust Maidens was…
Ginger Nuts of Horror review: The Lamppost Huggers
There’s even a spooky appliance story which gives Stephen King a run for his money…. Ben Walker, Ginger Nuts of Horror The next review of The Lamppost Huggers is from Ben Walker at Ginger Nuts of Horror. I was a bit nervous about this one as I don’t know Ben well, but he’s written a cracking…
STORGY review: The Lamppost Huggers
I know, I know, it’s odd to read a review where the reviewer doesn’t tell you anything about the stories held within the collection, but that is just what I’m going to doing, and for good reason. You see the stories held within this collection need to be discovered by you…Ross Jeffery, STORGY Fellow Bristolian…
Aphotic Realm review: The Lamppost Huggers
…there is a terrible darkness held within these pages.Morgan Tanner (Aphotic Realm) Morgan Tanner has written a fantastic review of The Lamppost Huggers, including a summary of all his favourite stories, for Aphotic Realm magazine’s review corner – check it out. Aphotic Realm is a print and online magazine, which publishes “short stories of any…
S J Budd review: The Lamppost Huggers
What really shines out from this collection is the scope of Christopher Stanley’s imagination and his ability to draw upon a huge variety of terror…S J Budd Reviews are starting to trickle in the The Lamppost Huggers so word is obviously getting out, which is very exciting! I wanted to share the reviews as they…
Create50 blog: Lamppost hugging for beginners
Back in December 2018, I won Create50’s ‘The Singularity’ competition with a story called Hive Mind, about robot bees. I found out that I’d won during a lavish award ceremony at the Cinema Museum in London, and it was an incredible night! I wrote a blog for Create50, talking about my journey from that once-in-a-lifetime…
Publication Day!
It’s here! It’s now! The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales has finally been released to the wild where it belongs. If you haven’t done so already, I hope you’ll buy it or seek it out in your local library. And I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. My…
Kendall Reviews interview and review: The Forest is Hungry
Demain Publishing has put out so many stunning releases with their stellar Short! Sharp! Shocks! series that you’d be hard pressed to pick out an absolute best. Saying that – what I read with ‘The Forest is Hungry‘ would be a strong contender in that category.Steve Stred, Kendall Reviews Kendall Reviews have posted Steve Stred’s…
Book post is the best post
It must be nearly publication day because ten copies of my collection turned up in the post this morning, courtesy of the kind folks at The Arcanist. Over the past few years, I’ve seen so many photos and videos of writer friends opening boxes containing copies of their latest publications, but this was a first…
Brand new flash fiction
Anyone who has read my collection, The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales, will know the important role The Molotov Cocktail lit zine has played in inspiring and influencing my work. The good news is that the editors, Josh and Mary (pictured with me at the UK Flash Fiction Festival 2018, below), continue to put…
Debut flash fiction collection coming soon
My debut flash fiction horror collection, The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales will be published by The Arcanist on 1 June 2020. The Lamppost Huggers features the very best of my flash fictions from the past five years. It contains twenty-six stories, including six competition winners and three stories that have never been published…
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