About the event

Horror is more than vampires, werewolves and ghosts, although we can't get enough of those. Join J.S. Barnes (Dracula's Child), Tracy Fahey (The Unheimlich Manoeuvre) and John McNee (Prince of Nightmares) as they share how they keep their writing fresh and most importantly, scary.

Chaired by James Bennett

About the speakers

John McNee is a Scottish horror author known for the books Prince of Nightmares, Grudge Punk and Petroleum Precinct. His new short story collection, John McNee’s Doom Cabaret, debuts spring 2020. He can easily be found on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, where he hosts the horror-themed cooking show A Recipe for Nightmares.

Jonathan Barnes teaches Creative Writing at Kingston and City Lit in London and has formerly been published by Gollancz (with The Somnambulist and The Domino Men in 2007 and 2008). His most recent publication is Dracula’s Child.

Tracy Fahey is an Irish Gothic writer.  In 2017, her debut collection The Unheimlich Manoeuvre was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award, 2020 sees the release of the third deluxe edition of this collection.  Eight of her short stories have been longlisted by Ellen Datlow for The Best Horror of the Year; her short story 'That Thing I Did' receiving an Honourable Mention in the latest volume. She is published in over twenty Irish, US and UK anthologies and her work has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Fahey holds a PhD on the Gothic in visual arts, and her non-fiction writing has been published in Irish, English, American, Italian, Dutch and Australian edited collections and journals. She has been awarded residencies in Ireland and Greece. She is currently working on her third collection, I Spit Myself Out.

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