Jan-Andrew Henderson's Blog

Free book time!!!  For the month of September 2023, you can get a bunch of messing with ‘genetics’ stories including my YA/adult horror novel Carnage.
All you have to do is click on the picture or link below during September to get a bunch of free fiction!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/geneticengineeringgonebad/55nuosmcup

I'm featured in the July issue of the Horror Writers Association Newsletter.
Zoinks! 

https://horror.org/private/newsletter/article/city-of-the-dead-features-dark-history-one-mean-poltergeist

Here’s my new year resolution. A free (or massively discounted) set of books with every newsletter I send out (usually 3 or four times a year) - including one of my own. Here’s the first. Just click on the pic below and subscribe to my newsletter.
Unsubscribe any time...
 

 ​‘That is ALL Wrong!’ is out now, in time for Halloween! The last part of the ‘That is Wrong!’ trilogy of offbeat horror anthologies, we’re going out with a bang!
 
It features award winners Cliff McNish (Salford Book Award. Calderdale Book Award. Hillingdon Award. Virginia Readers’ Choice Award), Geneve Flynn (Bram Stoker Award. Shirley Jackson Award), Brad Cobb (Inscape Prize), Edward Palumbo (Poet’s Page Prize) and me! (Royal Mail Award. Aurealis Award. Doncaster Book Prize).
 
We share a...

​I’m delighted to announce that 'Relics, Wrecks & Ruins' has won the 2022 Aurealis Awards for best anthology. I’m proud to be in it, along with peeps like Neil Gaiman and Robert Silverberg. More importantly, it was edited by my friend Aiki Flinthart, before she died last year.
She’d be well pleased.

I'm already practising my Oscar speech...
(Unrolls huge sheet of computer paper)
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I'd like to thank Jesus, the person who invented Kraft macaroni cheese, all the staff at 20/20 opticians...

https://queenslandwriters.org.au/adaptable-shortlist

Offbeat: ADJECTIVE. Different from normal. Collins English Dictionary
 
I am looking for horror stories to feature in an anthology, alongside award winners like Keith Gray (Smarties Prize. Angus Book Prize), Anita Sullivan (BBC Radio Drama. Writers' Guild. Race in the Media), Geneve Flynn (Bram Stoker Award. Shirley Jackson Award) and me!.
Any length under 7,000 words is acceptable.
Reprints allowed if the story is really good.
They can be funny, gory, sinister, gothic, ghostly, chilling or f...

Delighted to announce my new novel 'Aftonhouse' has reached the finals of the RWA Sapphire Award.
Knew I was the romantic type... [image error]

It's the most wonderful time of the year. And nothing says 'festive' like a good old-fashioned serial killer book sale.

My own chiller HIDE is in there
https://books.bookfunnel.com/serialkillerchristmas/6wqpd0lttq

Edinburgh’s Underground City is famous. But what is it, where is it and how did it come about? The history. The legends. The locations. This is the ultimate illustrated guide to a place of mystery and enchantment.
 
Jan-Andrew Henderson is a multi award-winning author, historian, ex-tour guide and expert on underground Edinburgh.
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