Simon Kurt Unsworth

British writer of supernatural fiction (born 1972)

Simon Kurt Unsworth (born 1972) is a British writer of supernatural fiction. Unsworth was born in Manchester, England. He grew up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy.^[1] He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Dundee where he received a Master of Arts degree in Psychology (Hons).

Unsworth's first novel is called The Devil's Detective and Unsworth's most recent novel is The Devil's Evidence, a horror novel set in Hell.^[2] James Lovegrove, in a review for the Financial Times, called the novel "an entertaining Dantean spin on the police procedural...The Devil's Detective is damned good".^[2]

Works

Books

At Ease with the Dead: New Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre, (with others) Ash-Tree Press, 2007. ASIN B000VGTJ0K.
Creature Feature (with Guy N. Smith and William Meikle), Ghostwriter Publications, 2009. ISBN 1-907190-07-4.
The Devil's Detective : A Novel. New York : Doubleday, 2015. ISBN 9780385539340
The Devil's Evidence : A Novel. New York : Doubleday, 2016. ISBN 9780385539364

Collections

Lost Places. Ash-Tree Press, 2010. ISBN 9781553101192
Quiet Houses. Dark Continents, 2011. ISBN 9780983624516
Strange Gateways. PS Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9781848637269
The Martledge Variations. Black Shuck Books, 2018. ISBN 9781720995500
Uneasy Beginnings. With Simon Kurt Unsworth. Black Shuck Books, 2020. ISBN 9781913038502

Awards

2008 - World Fantasy Award nomination for best short story for "The Church on the Island"^[3]

References

^ "Chorlton Book Festival". Libraries. Manchester City Council. Simon Unsworth. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
^ ^a ^b ‘The Devil’s Detective’, by Simon Kurt Unsworth Financial Times, 20 February 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Retrieved 4 February 2011.