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Simon Bleaken

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Born

in Cheltenham, The United Kingdom

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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

Influences

H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Clark Ashton Smith, Terry Pratchett, Ro ...more

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October 2010

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Simon Bleaken lives in Wiltshire, England.

His work has appeared in magazines, ezines and podcasts including Lovecraft’s Disciples; Tales of the Talisman; Dark Dossier; Strange Sorcery; Lovecraftiana; The Horror Zine; Schlock Webzine; Night Land; Weird Fiction Quarterly, Eternal Haunted Summer and on The NoSleep Podcast, Creepy Podcast and HorrorBabble Originals.

He has also appeared in the anthologies: Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales (2008); Space Horrors: Full-throttle Space Tales #4 (2010); Best Gay Romance (2015); Eldritch Embraces: Putting the Love Back in Lovecraft (2016); Kepler’s Cowboys (2017); Twilight Madhouse Vol. 2 (2017); The Shadow Over Doggerland (2022); The Horror Zine Magazine Summer 2022 (2022); HellBound Books’ Anthology of ...more

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Ashanna's Whispers Excerpt

An excerpt from my story "Ashanna's Whispers" which appears in the collection Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales

The book is a collection of short Cthulhu Mythos and Lovecraftian fiction.

Eldritch Horrors Dark Tales (hplmythos.com Vol. 1) by Henrik S. Harksen

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Average rating: 4.19 · 221 ratings · 73 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	House of Haunts by Heather Daughrity, Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Christy Aldridge (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings — 4 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
	Hospital of Haunts by Heather Daughrity (Editor), Clay McLeod Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Blaine Daigle (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 64 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
	Eldritch Investigations: Lovecraftian Tales of Occult Detection by Glynn Owen Barrass, Simon Bleaken (Goodreads Author), Gavin Chappell 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	The Basement of Dreams & Other Tales 4.10 avg rating — 29 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
	Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales (Hplmythos.com, #1) by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen (Editor), Paul S. Kemp (Goodreads Author), Linda Navroth 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008	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
	HellBound Books' Anthology of Science Fiction by Chris McAuley (Compiler), Benjamin DeHaan (Goodreads Author), Carlton Herzog (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	A Touch Of Silence & Other Tales 4.42 avg rating — 12 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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Simon’s Quotes

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: appearance, lost, strength

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