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Frightfest

FRIGHTFEST - Stories to Unnerve.

About Me

I love Urban, Gothic and Psychological Horror / Thrillers, and over sixty of my short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies such as Dead Things, Midnight Street, Unhinged, Kimota, Oktobyr, Black Petals, Sci Fright plus many more.

My Interests

Writing! Writing! Writing!

I'd like to meet:

Jack Bauer. Tim Burton.

Music:

Keane, The Rasmus, Fleetwood Mac, Robbie Williams, Pink.

Movies:

Tim Burton's 'Ed Wood', 'Mars Attacks', 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'Sleepy Hollow'. Baz Lurhmann's 'Moulin Rouge', 'Strictly Ballroom', 'Romeo & Juliet'. 'The Crow', 'Dark City', 'Near Dark', 'The Lost Boys', 'Don't Look Now', 'Scream 1, 2 & 3', 'Back to the Future Trilogy', 'Final Destination'.

Television:

24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, Tru Calling, Invasion, Angel, Sliders, Life on Mars, Doctor Who.

Books:

Anything by Harlan Coben, Jonathan Aycliffe, Dean Koontz, John Connolly, Kelley Armstrong. 'The Tutor' by Peter Abrahams, 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte, 'Desperation' by Stephen King - best book he has ever written, 'Rebecca' by Daphne Du Maurier. And of course Harry Potter.

My Blog

Red Bull Tall Story Competition

Red Bull - the gives you wings people - are running a 'Tall Stories' Competition for you to write an advert...Check out mine at this address: http://www.redbulltallstorycontest.co.uk/ My story can be ...
Posted by Frightfest on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:29:00 PST

Riot Beneath Grey Skies - A Poem

Iridescent colours cavort in the Cynic's garden,gossamer wings beating purple and orangeabove the stalks of abandoned summer.Free in the air above sodden ground they tease;as heavy boots slip in mud,d...
Posted by Frightfest on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:55:00 PST

Is there such a thing as a good rejection?

Is there such a thing as a good rejection? Probably not but, the below was far better than that awful, soul-destroying thing, the pre-typed form letter. Thank you very much for sending us The Midnig...
Posted by Frightfest on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:28:00 PST

The Usual - Rejection

And so life trundles on in the same old fashion - another rejection today, this one for my novel BREAKING CASSANDRA - which means I am in a really low funk today.  A zillion things to do and not ...
Posted by Frightfest on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:54:00 PST

New Blog Site & A Short Story

Have started a new blog on blogger.com with the intent of posting short stories of mine there which were published in magazines over the last decade.  Below is the first of many.  ...
Posted by Frightfest on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:27:00 PST

The Cotton Prophet - A Very Short Story

Loving the website writersdock.org and urge all writers out there to sign up, especially if you lack motivation or have the dreaded writers block.  I joined up a little over a week ago now -...
Posted by Frightfest on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:44:00 PST

Oh no - I've been blog tagged!

I've been blog tagged which means, apparently, that I have to give out 8 random facts about myself and then tag 8 more people.  Sorry to those I tag, but if you don't want to take part don't worr...
Posted by Frightfest on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:26:00 PST

First Draft

Have almost completed the first draft of a short story - yay! Getting there.  Now all I need is an ending - oops!  And then to the business of finding a magazine to publish it...
Posted by Frightfest on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:06:00 PST

The Weird World of the Imagination

Here's how it's been, barring a dream/nightmare I had a couple of months ago that proved story from beginning to end with plenty of middle, and which I do eventually intend to write as a novel having ...
Posted by Frightfest on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

Back on the Horse

It's a miracle.  She's writing!Okay, so I haven't removed the layer of dust from my notebooks yet, and I blinked away the vision that read 1st Draft 'Dead Girl Rising' when I switched on my compu...
Posted by Frightfest on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:19:00 PST