I’m Ray Newman, a writer, editor and content designer based in Bristol.
My crime novel The Grave Digger’s Boy was published in 2019 and my short ghost stories are collected in Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness.
I post on my blog my fairly regularly. Recent posts are below or you can check out the whole back catalogue.
Recent posts
4: Bruising the Scene – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The fourth story in my new collection Thin Places in Hard Concrete is about a wannabe street photographer standing in a backstreet in Brussels with that itchy feeling something isn’t quite right. I’m not sure where this story came from, exactly. It might have started with the title, with its misleading whiff of body horror,…
3: Unreleased – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The third story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is called ‘Unreleased’ and is about a haunted Mellotron tape bank. It isn’t about The Beatles, exactly, but it is very clearly inspired by my reading of books and articles about them over the course of many years. It’s funny that I sometimes…
2: Wolf in Exile – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The second story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is called ‘Wolf in Exile’ and is about the son of a deposed dictator trying to live a quiet life but (literally) haunted by his past. I wrote the first draft of this story in a single day in a fairly gloomy apartment…
Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart 