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S.P. Oldham

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Horror, Dark Fantasy, Fiction

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S P Oldham lives in the beautiful Sirhowy Valley in South Wales. Although she writes mainly horror and dark fiction, she likes to dabble in other genres from time to time. She is also an avid reader.

S P Oldham currently has nine titles available on Amazon. Three of these make up The Mindless Trilogy - The Zombie Apocalypse: Where a Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing.
Book 1: Sleep, Think, Die
Book 2: The Undertaking
3. Brutal Truths

Short story collections:
Hag's Breath: A Collection of Witchcraft and Wickedness
Wakeful Children: A Collection of Horror and Supernatural Tales. Wakeful Children is also available in paperback.

The Dragon Has Wings and Wicked Little Blade are dark fantasy tales also available on Amazon.

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	Sleep, Think, Die (Mindless Trilogy #1) 4.22 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wakeful Children 4.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hag's Breath: An Anthology of Witches 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Undertaking (Mindless Trilogy, #2) 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brutal Truths (Mindless Trilogy #3) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dragon Has Wings 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cymru Horrorcon/Horrorcon Wales - Saturday October 10th 2026

Well, I just attended my first ever #horrorcon with #valleyscon in Cardiff on Saturday. It was a great day, loads of fun. Lots of fabulous cosplay outfits, stalls, actors such as Fedor Steer, Madeleine Smith and Caroline Monroe. Books sold, I was even interviewed, which I was not expecting! Well worth it, looking forward to next year! As ever, thank you to my wonderful husband Adam Oldham for your

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“I stopped trying to stand on my own two feet and started letting them fight my battles for me, and the less I fought, the more scared I became,”
― S.P. Oldham, Sleep, Think, Die

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“Write like the whole world's reading.”
― Lillian White

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“A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere.”
― Lillian White

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“…we must be careful not to do our enemies’ work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator – what logic is this?”
― Robert Harris, Dictator

tags: dictator, historical-fiction, orator, robert-harris, rome

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“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Robert Harris, Dictator

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