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
Lists, curation and the power of brevity
Lists and guides can be a great way to find new books to read, films to watch and music to listen to. They’re also difficult to put together and seem to make people furious. As I write, the most recent list to have riled people was The Guardian’s top 100 novels of all time. The…
10: The Lost Seconds – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The tenth and final story in my new collection Thin Places in Hard Concrete is about what might happen if time froze around you for just a few seconds, leaving you out of sync with the world. Here’s a bit from the opening which takes place in the gents toilets beneath London’s Paddington Station: The…
9: Damnatio Memoriae – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The ninth story in my new collection Thin Places in Hard Concrete is about what happens when you read aloud the names on old headstones in your local cemetery. If you follow me on BlueSky, and previously followed me on Twitter, you might know that I collect names from headstones and sometimes share them with…
Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart 