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
6: The Presence Chamber – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The sixth story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, was inspired by reading about Henry VIII’s colossal Nonsuch Palace. I first learned about Nonsuch from the 1945 book British Architects and Craftsmen by Sacheverell Sitwell, which I read in a yellowing Pan paperback edition from 1960. A chapter about Tudor architecture includes…
5: One Star Review – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story
The fifth weird story in my new collection Thin Places in Hard Concrete is told in the form of a series of reviews of a holiday apartment, and responses from the host. It’s another of my experiments with form along the lines of ‘Modern Buildings in Wessex’ and ‘An Oral History of the Greater London…
Thin Places in Hard Concrete is out
My latest collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is now out, with 10 brand new weird stories. You can buy the eBook and paperback from Amazon wherever you are. For starters, here’s where you’ll find it if you’re in the UK or US: I’ve chosen not to apply digital rights management (DRM) to the eBook…
Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart 