My new book, Intervals of Darkness, with 14 weird stories, is now out.
You can buy it as a paperback or eBook more-or-less anywhere in the world, including
From the ghosts of marching soldiers haunting marshland to delivery drivers lost in nightmarish tower blocks, and from reanimated skulls to psychogeographers encountering ancient spirits on council recreation grounds, it’s a wide-ranging collection direct from my subconscious to you.
I hope you enjoy it.
Praise for Intervals of Darkness
“Newman returns to haunted Britain with fourteen more wonderful stories… Fans of folk horror and weird fiction will find a lot to love in this collection.” – Rowan Lee in her review at The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
“Impressively eerie and packed with shocks, Intervals of Darkness ushers the reader through 1970s grime and Gothic opulence, with moments of powerful poignancy and startling strangeness. You’ll want to linger over these stories.” – Verity Holloway, editor of Cloister Fox and author of Pseudotooth and The Others of Edenwell
“Housing estates, factories, tower blocks and caravans, nowhere is safe from Ray Newman’s dark imagination. Existing somewhere between Robert Aickman and JG Ballard, these blackly funny tales are sure to chill you, no matter how high you turn the central heating. It’s every bit the equal of Municipal Gothic, and if anything it’s darker and stranger.” – John Grindrod, author of Concretopia, Iconicon and Outskirts
“You don’t know what you’re getting next – Cronenberg in a dingy terrace, Tim Powers jumping at shadows, M.R. James in a piss-soaked alley. The canvas feels bigger than Municipal Gothic.” Thom Willis, editor of Microwrites
“Witty, creepy, moving, and brilliantly written weird fiction…” – Jamie Evans
“Chilling, atmospheric and darkly witty.” – Stephen Graves, director of The Dead of Winter
How I wrote these stories
I’ve written a ‘behind the scenes’ breakdown of each story in the collection without, I hope, any spoilers. A friend has been reading each story, then reading my notes, and that’s probably a good approach.
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