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HECK is back, ROGUE ready to pre-order
At long last I’m able to post this. The e-book of ROGUE, the next Heck novel, Number 8 in the series, is now available for pre-order right HERE, with the paperback to follow shortly.It will officially...
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Promote your book with some acting talent
Want to do something different to promote your next book? How about this? Select certain sections of text and condense them down to the raw dialogue - in other words, turn them into snippets of audio...
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Uncompromising action, demented villains
Today is publication day for ROGUE, the eighth novel in the Mark Heckenburg series. I’m delighted but also aware that it must seem - certainly to those who follow the Heck books - as if it’s been an...
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Great reviews, eerie art, Christmas chillers
Apologies for my tardiness on here during the course of this autumn. I’m sorry I haven’t been posting more. The truth is that November in particular has been a phenomenally busy time, what with my...
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DECEMBER: A festive supernatural foray
Greetings, all. Hoping you’re enjoying the build-up to the holiday. As regular readers may know, I always like to mark this festive time of year by posting an original Christmas ghost or horror story...
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Incoming titles to darken your spring days
A belated Happy New Year. Sorry folks, a very tight deadline prevented me getting that message out to you any sooner. Not everyone loves the New Year of course. They feel it's another year gone, but...
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Sadness, joy - an astonishing year thus far
It’s a big announcements day here on WALKING IN THE DARK, most of it concerning forthcoming Finch publications. Those in the know will remember that I forecast three new books for 2025, and now at last...
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A holiday from Hell - in every possible way
You’ve had a rough time of it. You need a break. Then you secure the holiday of a lifetime. But when you get there, where is everyone else? Slowly, you start to realise that this isn’t somewhere you...
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Can we bring terror to the isles ... again?
Don’t you just love islands. The way it’s really easy to trap people there, out of sight, out of earshot, out of reach. The way it’s really easy to cut their communications, to cut the power, to maroon...
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A dark fiction deluge is heading your way
So, bewilderingly, it’s almost Midsummer. I don’t know where the time goes, and as I get older, it seems to go faster and faster. But anyway, all that aside, we’re again halfway through a year - a...
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Horrors and terrors lurk on lonely islands
After a headline like that, it probably won’t surprise you good people to know that today I’m going to be talking about THE ISLAND again. And why not?, I ask you. It’s my first title with Thomas &...
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When the Devil was definitely not mocked
Greetings all. Autumn is well and truly with us, which means that, by rights, we should now be delving into the Ghosting Season. However, today I’m switching identities from Paul Finch, the writer of...
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Wallowing in the real-life hellscapes of war
In three days’ time, my third historical novel, THE DEVIL’S KNIGHT, will be published by Canelo. I’m truly delighted about this, as it’s the first part in a new medieval adventure series, and though...
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It’s time for TERROR TALES OF CHAOS
It’s my great pleasure today to finally reveal the cover and contents of the latest volume in the TERROR TALES series.TERROR TALES OF CHAOS is a special bumper edition, available in hardback as well as...
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Heck is back to take on a real nasty BEAST
I have a bit of a mid-autumn treat for all Heck fans today. A brand-new Heck novella, BEAST OF THE FIELD, which is already up for pre-order as an e-book (just follow the link). It wasn’t originally on...
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Twelve months of torments and triumphs
Okay, well ... we’re fast approaching the end of 2025. It’s been a strange year here at Finch Towers. One of my most prolific ever in terms of publications, and yet hugely stressful in many ways. I...
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See in the season with a festive spook story
Okay, it’s that time of year again. Best wishes of the season to all you regular readers of this column, and those who only pop in now and then. As always in mid-December, my Christmas present to you...
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New bunch of book scares coming at you
Well, how about that. Christmas was coming, we blinked, and it’s gone already. But never mind, there’s always next December. Meanwhile, at the time of this writing, New Year is yet to arrive ... but...
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Why do I dabble in this deepest darkness?
Someone asked me the other day: ‘Why do you dabble in the darkness so much? Why, in your writing, are you so obsessed with the frightening and the horrific?’ It was a fair enough question, and it got...
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When thrillers intensify into full-on horror
So … at what point does Thriller fiction delve so deeply into the darkness that it also becomes classifiable as Horror? In addition to that, does it ever stray into the realms of the Gothic? Does it...
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Wildblood takes on a new horde of slayers
I’m very pleased today to be able to unveil my next medieval action-adventure novel, THE DARK ARMY, and to announce that it’s now available for pre-order. Just follow the link. Those who enjoy...
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Festival season approaches, and book news
Humble apologies for the long delay in posting on here. There are very good reasons for this, which I’m not yet at liberty to discuss in full, but I can’t wait for that day to arrive. In the meantime,...
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Fancy a foray into the tangle of the mind?
Humble apologies for what’s been a massive period of time since I last posted. I can now come clean and admit that my new deal with Avon Books at HarperCollins has been my highest priority this last...
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Sample the dark stuff in the months ahead
So, there we are. The longest day has been and gone, and the nights are closing in. We’re already into the second half of the year. But fear not, because this next six months also promises to offer us...
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Demonic horror classic set for immortality
A quick and to-the-point blogpost this week. This year is the 15th anniversary of THE DEVIL’S ROCK, a World War Two era horror movie, which I co-wrote way back in 2010 and which finally hit the cinema...
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