Tim Jeffreys's Blog

Another of my stories, The Silence of the Heart, has been featured on Kristen Holland's Nocturnal Transmissions.

As with my previously featured story, Here Comes Mister Herribone!, Kristin did an excellent job narrating The Silence of the Heart.  You can listen for yourself here.

The story is linked to my novel, The False Ones, and was first published in The Ghastling #18.  It also appears in my collection The Hollow Hills and other Strange Tales.

Just when you think the final stake has been driven in, all bats rounded up, and the last decaying castle thoroughly mopped down with holy water, up pops another vampire anthology.

This anthology, part of the Creature Feature Classics series from Snake Bite Books, includes my story Old Clawhand.

My thanks to editor Annie Knox for selecting my story for inclusion.

I'm greatly honoured to have had my story 'Here Comes Mr Herribone!' featured on Kristin Holland's Nocturnal Transmissions podcast.  Kristin did a wonderful job narrating the story.  Even though it's my story I found it a genuinely terrifying listen!

Click here to listen to the episode.

For anyone who enjoyed listening to this story, I'd like to give a quick reminder that I since expanded it into a novella, which is available from Dark Lane Books.

It's wonderful to have a story in the latest issue of C.M. Muller's Chthonic Matter Quarterly (#8).  Wild Places is a sequel of sorts to my novelette (and title story of my latest collection), The Hollow Hills.  Journalist Louis Holton's trespass is some ancient Spanish woods continues to impact his life even after he returns to England, with his wife Siobhan and newborn baby, Holly, now dragged into the horrors.

To find out more about this anthology, go here.

Exciting news: my new novel, The False Ones, is due for release on 4th February 2025 from Macabre Ink, an imprint of Crossroads Press, and is now available for pre-order.

As a huge admirer of the work Rebecca Parfitt does on her 'modern day penny dreadful, The Ghastling, it's a real honour for me to have my work appear in it's pages.  'The Silence of the Heart' is another story about those shape-shifters that inhabit the Yorkshire Moors (more info here).Always beautifully designed and illustrated, with carefully chosen stories, The Ghastling is a wonderful thing to have plop through your letterbox, so why not visit their online shop and grab yourself a copy? Or two?

Me and fellow Manta Press author, Michael Wertenberg, recently had a Zoom conversation about my novella Holburn, our writing processes, inspirations, and Michael's own books.  The video, which is part of Michael's 'Author's Talking Shop' series on his Youtube channel, can be viewed below.  It was a pleasure chatting with Michael.

  

Very happy to receive the news that my story The Secrecy of the Heart has been published in the latest issue of Supernatural Tales.  I'm doubly happy to be sharing the table of contents with some great writers such as Charles Wilkinson and Steve Ransic Tem.

The Secrecy of the Heart concerns a confused young man named Benjamin whose car breaks down on the Yorkshire Moors, forcing him to seek refuge at an isolated house.  Things at the house are not as they appear, but his time there will eventually lead him to an important revelation about himself.  This story is linked to two stories I've previously written, The Shape of the Heart and The Lies of the Heart, as well as an as yet unpublished novel called The False Ones.

Writing fiction means getting used to taking disappointment on the chin.  But sometimes a writer  gets a glimmer of recognition when it appears all the hard work, and all those metaphorical uppercuts, might actually be paying off.  And so, I was very pleased to see that two of my short stories made Ellen Datlow's longlist for Best Horror of the Year #14.  First was my creepy costume head story 'Here Comes Mister Herribone!' which was published in Supernatural Tales 46.  Also getting a mention was my folk-horror story, 'The Daughters' which appeared in The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3.

I ain't lying.  See it with your own eyes here.