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
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…
8: The Dead Spot – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The eighth story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is just as long as it needs to be. Which is another way of saying it’s very short – just shy of a thousand words. I’ve mentioned before how inspiring I found ‘24 Rules for Writing Short Stories’ by Owen Booth. There’s plenty…
Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart 