Horror – Crispian Thurlborn

Exit – book release

I have a new book. It’s called EXIT. It’s out now. Please buy it. That’s what I want to say. The story disapproves of my directness. It wants me to delete the above sentence. I don’t. I won’t. Many authors will tell you that writing …

01134 – book trailer

Never have we been more connected. Never have we been so alone… 01134 is a psychological horror/drama set in Japan. It’s sad. It’s strange. It’s a tad creepy in places. It’s… well, watch the book trailer and decide. 01134 is available in ebook and print …

01134 – book release

About that short story… I started writing the idea back in December 2016 while I was passing through Kansai International Airport. I was just starting my winter vacation and was thinking about cracking on with Glade. Unfortunately, those good intentions got lost in transit and …

CINDER – book trailer

Trailing its fingers across your window late at night comes… CINDER… the book trailer!It’s not scary. Honest. WARNING: This trailer contains flashing images CINDER is available in ebook and print at Click to rate this post!

CINDER – cover reveal

As promised, below is the cover for CINDER. If you haven’t read the preview yet, then you can do so here. I had two ideas for the cover. I went with this one. The other was a moth that spread across the front and back covers. …

CINDER – book release

CINDER is a short story of around 8,000 words that I wrote over the past few months. Yes, I wrote that slowly. The tale itself is one of ghostly horror, although I don’t consider it to be horrific. I often find that our senses have …

“Beware!” – a poem from the novella “A Bump in the Night”

This is the poem that comes from the soon to be released novella, A Bump in the Night. Originally, I had intended to release the novella for Halloween. The fact that living in a rural part of the world that exists outside of the US means that …

13 Monsters (a movie list of bits and pieces)

Monster. The word conjures a multitude of horrors. The original Latin word, monstrum, could also refer to portent or warning. Perhaps that is what they are. We use them to drive home warnings. We have done so throughout history, in song and tale. A classic …

13 Ghosts (a movie list of ‘clear’ quality)

Never is a season more apt than this for walking hand in hand with the dead. As evening draws close and dying light plays upon withered leaf and branch, we are able, for but a breath, to peer into the realms after and see there …

Scream!

Sometime during the twilight hours on an unremarkable day last month, I stumbled across a website entitled “Back from the Depths” (…the website seems to have been abandoned or may possibly be dead… but the content still remains in all its grotesque splendour). “Back from the Depths” is/was a …