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NP Cunniffe

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NP Cunniffe was born in the West of Ireland, surrounded by dark forests, fairy hills and deep, mysterious lakes. He won a young writers scholarship to the Winchester Writers' Festival in 2017 and was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award in 2020. When the pandemic hit, he self-published a novelette, The Wake: An Irish Ghost Story, in August 2020, selling over 500 copies by the end of that year. He holds an MA in Writing the Modern World from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich. The Weejee Man is his first novella. ...more

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The Weejee Man

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When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
""you know what, fuck werewolves, i should write about evil cartoons and daddy issues" - nat cassidy after writing the first 65 pages of this book, probably"
NP Cunniffe and 2 other people liked Sam Spade's review of The Wake:
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"This is the second book I read by NP Cunniffe and I have enjoyed both. The Weejee Man is the more horror of the two whereas The Wake has more of a gothic feel to it. A man arrives at a wake to pay his respects but all is not as it seems...dum, dum, d" Read more of this review »
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" Hello Sam, thank you for the review. Stay tuned on Instagram/Facebook for updates on my current project, which leans even more into Irish Gothic Horro ...more "
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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"Scary as shit with an amazing atmosphere. But left a lot of my questions unanswered. Either way, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Fairies and the hat man? Count me in."
NP Cunniffe and 2 other people liked Sam Spade's review of The Weejee Man:
The Weejee Man by NP  Cunniffe
"My first read of this author and I found the book creepy and foreboding and very good. The story of an author with writers block who sets off to a cottage in the Irish countryside to get the creative juices flowing. Walks into a local small town pub " Read more of this review »
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass
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Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
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Real Ghost Stories by Tina Vantyler
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Ancient Legends of Ireland by Jane Francesca Wilde
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“Maybe the parties were to keep the dead entertained through an otherwise long and lonely night. He’d once heard his father say the dead could never be left alone in the house.”
NP Cunniffe, The Wake

“His face had grown dark, except for the reflection of the red fire in his eyes. The house, too, seemed to have filled with shadow, as if a storm was brewing outside. Jim’s eyes beamed red from the shadows. Why wasn’t he moving? Why wasn’t he helping his son?”
NP Cunniffe, The Weejee Man

“His face had grown dark, except for the reflection of the red fire in his eyes. The house, too, seemed to have filled with shadow, as if a storm was brewing outside. Jim’s eyes beamed red from the shadows. Why wasn’t he moving? Why wasn’t he helping his son?”
NP Cunniffe, The Weejee Man

“Maybe the parties were to keep the dead entertained through an otherwise long and lonely night. He’d once heard his father say the dead could never be left alone in the house.”
NP Cunniffe, The Wake

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