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Kev Harrison

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Kev Harrison is a writer of dark fiction and English language teacher from England, living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. He has previously lived in various areas of the UK, as well as Turkey and Poland.

His Independent Press Award-winning debut novel, Shadow of the Hidden, is out now from Brigids Gate Press. His latest novella, 'Below' is also available from the same publishing house.

His debut novella 'The Balance', was released through Lycan Valley Press, while his debut collection 'Paths Best Left Untrodden' was released through Northern Republic.

His forthcoming release, Pyres, is a politically-charged novel of supernatural horror, set in the New Forest.

He is a staff writer for This is Horror and has had short fiction published in a var ...more

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	Below 3.72 avg rating — 208 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
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	Shadow of the Hidden: A Novel of Adventure Horror by Kev Harrison (Goodreads Author), Elle Turpitt (editor), Mustapha Design DZ (illustrator) 4.57 avg rating — 91 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
	Paths Best Left Untrodden 4.26 avg rating — 74 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
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	Pyres by Kev Harrison (Goodreads Author), Elle Turpitt (Editor), Adam Hulse (Introduction) 4.54 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2025 — 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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2017 - The Year of Writing

This year, 2017, I made a decision that I would start to take my writing seriously and a friend and colleague of mine, Michael David Wilson of This is Horror and Lit Reactor, gave me a challenge to help me along with that. https://litreactor.com/columns/2017-w...

So I took the challenge and it's been great. Frenetic, but great. As you can see, I've had one short story published in the 9 Tales antho Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 20, 2017 07:55 • Tags: 52-story-challenge, 9-tales, this-is-horror, writing

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Kemberton

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Below: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

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How to Fake a Haunting

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Kev Harrison and 5 other people liked Adam Hulse's review of When the World Stopped: "I have a story in this anthology so I am rating it based on the other stories. This is a CHONK of an anthology which is just as well because it holds an insane amount of talented authors. Wayne Fenlon has done an excellent job of recruiting a lineup " Read more of this review »
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Kev Harrison and 8 other people liked Don Gillette's review of When the World Stopped: "I have a story in this anthology. but I'm not rating my own work--I'm rating the anthology as a whole--and the other 30 authors. Anyway, this anthology is honestly top-drawer. I've been in quite a few and this one is very possibly the best collection " Read more of this review »
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I have a story, 'Husk and Hearth,' in this anthology, so this review excludes that story, of course. When I saw the line-up for this anthology, I was delighted to have been asked to be involved but, even then, I didn't anticipate a book so completely ...more
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Kev Harrison rated a book it was amazing Down We Go Together by Tracy Fahey (Goodreads Author)	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
An extraordinarily captivating fusion of crime and horror, some stories leaning more one way and others the other. What really grabbed me about this book was the differing points of view. As surprising as they are varied, you see crime scenes from ev ...more
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Kev Harrison rated a book it was amazing Night Bleeds Into Dawn (Jack Carlton #1) by Graeme Reynolds (Goodreads Author)	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
This book had everything you could ask for from an occult detective novel, the down on his luck PI with a dry, brutal sense of humour, the compelling case with more to it than meets the eye and, on the horror side, a genuinely horrific, demonic entit ...more
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Kev Harrison rated a book it was amazing Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist (Goodreads Author)	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
I enjoyed the hell out of this. Tamsin is such a relatably awkward character - I'm sure this says a whole load of things about me, but never mind - and the combination of her desperation to make her move into the unknown work and the regular emotiona ...more
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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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