Simon Bestwick

Simon Bestwick (born 1974) is an English author of British contemporary horror.

Biography

Bestwick attended the University of Salford which he graduated from in 1996 with a 2:1 degree in Media and Performance.^[1]

Writer Ramsey Campbell has described Bestwick, along with Gary McMahon, Alison Littlewood and Joel Lane, as part of a class of contemporary British writers developing a “consciously political form of horror fiction, using the genre to examine and symbolise Thatcher’s Britain and the country’s subsequent decades”.^[2]

His short stories have been reprinted in Best Horror of the Year #1 'The Narrows', Best Horror of the Year #4 'Dermot' and 'The Moraine', Best British Fantasy 2013 'Dermot',^[3] and his short story ‘Below’ is due to be reprinted in Best Horror of the Year # 12 (September 2020).^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours

• 2009 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best novella for “The Narrows”^[4]
• 2012 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best short story for “Dermot”^[5]
• 2019 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best horror novel for “Wolf's Hill”^[6]
• 2019 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best novella for “Breakwater”^[7]

Selected works

Books

• Power of the Dog: Precinct 13 Publications, 1998.
• Tide Of Souls: Abaddon Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1906735142
• The Faceless: Solaris, 2012. ISBN 978-1907992742
• Let's Drink To The Dead: Solaris, 2012. ASIN B00AIM7PTE
• The Condemned: Gray Friar Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1906331412
• Hell's Ditch:  Snowbooks, 2015. ISBN 978-1909679696
• Devil's Highway:  Snowbooks, 2016. ISBN 978-1909679900
• The Feast of All Souls: Solaris, 2016. ISBN 978-1781084618
• Angels Of The Silences: Omnium Gatherum Media, 2016. ISBN 978-0692619384
• Wolf's Hill: Snowbooks, 2018. ISBN 978-1911390503
• Breakwater: Tor, 2018. ASIN B079Y41MRR

Collections

• A Hazy Shade Of Winter: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. ASIN B006WBJ4IK
• Pictures Of The Dark: Gray Friar Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1906331085
• And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost: ChiZine, 2019.  ISBN 978-1771485227 (Out of Print), and reprinted by Horrific Tales, 2020. ISBN 978-1910283264

As editor

• Oktobyr '98:: Precinct 13 Publications, 1998.

References