Mark Chadbourn - ProfilesArchive

About Me

'Alan Garner meets Michael Moorcock down the pub to discuss Henry Treece.'
I'm a fantasy, science fiction and horror author with eleven novels (and one non-fiction book) published around the world.
And when I'm not doing that, I'm writing for TV and film.
Five of my novels have been shortlisted for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel, and I won the British Fantasy Society Award for my novella The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. My writing career started when I won Fear magazine's Best New Author award for my first published short story.
My new novel Jack of Ravens was published in the UK on July 20 2006. It's the first in a new sequence called Kingdom of the Serpent and tells of a modern-day archaeologist who walks out of the mists into the Iron Age more than 2,000 years ago. He has to find his way back home, through several eras of human history.
My next novel is called The Burning Man and will be out in April 2008.
My website is: www.markchadbourn.net and my blog is at www.jackofravens.com .
Also, you can check out my Moli page .
Praise for Mark's work:
'A sumptuous feast of fairytale, magic, dark gothic horror and romance' ~ The (London) Times
'A contemporary bard, a post-industrial Taliesin whose visionary novels are crammed with remixed mythologies, oneiric set-pieces, potent symbols, unsettling imagery and an engaging fusion of genre elements. His work is distinguished by breakneck but brilliantly controlled plots, meticulous research, deft characterisation and a crisp, accessible prose style' ~ Zone-SF.com
'Reminiscent of Alan Garner (the highest compliment I can pay to someone working in this mythic mode).' ~ SFSite.com
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My Interests

Films, comics, books and music. Anything with an imaginative content.

I'd like to meet:

Creative types, independent thinkers, anyone who enjoys books, movies, comics and music.

Music:

Bat For Lashes, Klaxons, Zero 7, Sigur Ros, Gorillaz, REM, Julian Cope, Basement Jaxx, Kate Bush, jazz, trance, Easterhouse, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Kooks, Razorlight, Faithless, U2, Hard Fi, Pixies, The Coral, Sly and the Family Stone, Billy Bragg

Movies:

Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Halloween, Frankenstein, Mulholland Dr, Psycho, Rear Window, The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, The Exorcist, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Blue Velvet, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alien, Almost Famous, It's A Wonderful Life

Television:

24, The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, X Files, Millennium, Carnivale, Shameless

Books:

Contemporary authors: Mark Z Danielewski, Stephen King, Tim Powers, Umberto Eco, Iain Banks. Classic authors: Charles Dickens, Raymond Chandler.

Heroes:

People who kick over the statues and break down doors.

My Blog

Books, Comics and DVDs

One upside of being pathetically weak and sickly for the last week is the ability to put work on one side completely and indulge in all the books, comics and dvds that have been piling up. Actually, I...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:00:00 PST

The Burning Man published today

The Burning Man is published by Orion/Victor Gollancz today. You can read about it and order it here....
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:40:00 PST

National Newspaper Article on Fantasy

UK national newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, asked me to write an article on fantasy for those not familiar with the genre. The result is here....
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:01:00 PST

The Burning Man Extract 2

With The Burning Man published on April 17, I thought I'd supply one more brief extract in an attempt to whet appetites. This one comes from a few chapters in, so I won't spoil the story with a ...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:30:00 PST

New Short Story

I have a new short story about to be published in British Invasion, an anthology out now from Cemetery Dance. It’s called Farewell to the 21st Century Girl and is about a love affair, Chaos Theo...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:54:00 PST

Book Signing for The Burning Man

The one and only book signing event for The Burning Man is to be held at Waterstones, Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham, on Saturday April 19 at noon. If you’re travelling any distance it’s wor...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:03:00 PST

The Burning Man Interview

There’s an interview with me about The Burning Man on UK SF Book News here....
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:37:00 PST

The Lord of Silence Delivered

I've delivered the manuscript for The Lord of Silence to my editor at Solaris. The book, to be published in the US and UK in 2009, is "a sword and sorcery, noir, puzzle-cracking, romance, serial...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:39:00 PST

Hellboy and Me

Hellboy - big red guy, cigar-chomping, protects humanity from the hordes of the supernatural. If you haven't read Mike Mignola's brilliant, scary, funny, wildly imaginative series of comics and ...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:44:00 PST

Jack of Ravens Review

There's a review of Jack of Ravens here which raises some very interesting issues. What I've been working on for the last few years is an epic story covering more than two thousand years of human hist...
Posted by Mark Chadbourn on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:23:00 PST