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
Reading, thinking, doing autumn 2026: Like, zoinks – what a creepy old house!
This autumn I’ve been revelling in the coolth (that’s a real word) and writing spooky stuff in various formats. A little context: this type of blog post is what I decided to do instead of starting a newsletter. You can subscribe to this blog (enter an email address, get updates when I post) using a…
FICTION: Piloti
Trident House is an aching place where nobody dwells by choice. The Inquiry team was sent to Trident House ostensibly because it is the only office building in the Council’s property estate with space for enough desks and for the hundreds of boxes of historic paperwork. That it is a distasteful business – that the…
The most magical two seconds in pop music
It’s amazing to think that we can pinpoint the most magical two seconds in pop music, which occur exactly one minute into ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ by The Beatles, as Take 7 melts into Take 26. Listening casually, all you’ll hear at this point is the song ‘kicking in’ – the gentle, dreamy introduction giving way…
