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Gary Budden writes fiction and creative non-fiction about the intersections of British sub-culture, landscape, psychogeography, hidden history, nature, horror, weird fiction and more.

His collection of uncanny psychogeographies and landscape punk, HOLLOW SHORES, was published by Dead Ink Books in October 2017. His dark fiction novella JUDDERMAN (as D.A. Northwood) is published in 2018 by the Eden Book Society.

He was shortlisted for the 2015 London Short Story Award, and his story ‘Greenteeth’ was nominated for a 2017 British Fantasy Award and adapted into a short film by the filmmaker Adam Scovell.

His work has been published widely, including Black Static, Structo, Elsewhere, Unthology, The Lonely Crowd, Gorse, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. ...more

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Mortal Danger in Enchanted Waters

An image dredged from memory came to me the other day: a degenerate being, a creature monstrous and hungry, doll-like, like a beakless platypus with tendrilled hair. I dated the image from sometime in the early nineteen nineties, in Kent near the waters of the Hollow Shore. The misty time of childhood. The creature was opening its wide maw displaying a row of carnivore’s teeth; it lurked in the de Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 24, 2018 00:32 • Tags: animals-of-farthing-wood, fall-of-efrafa, folk, folk-horror, hollow-shore, hollow-shores, landscape, landscape-punk, punk, the-ancestral-trail, watership-down, weird-fiction

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	This Dreaming Isle by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Michael Hurley, Ramsey Campbell 3.77 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Hollow Shores 4.19 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2017 — 9 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
	London Incognita 4.09 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted by Gary Budden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marian Womack (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Leena Likitalo (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2019	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
	Acquired for Development By...: A Hackney Anthology by Gary Budden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kit Caless (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee Rourke (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 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 White Heron Beneath the Reactor by Gary Budden (Goodreads Author), Maxim Griffin (Illustrator) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2019	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
	These Towers Will One Day Slip Into The Sea by Gary Budden (Goodreads Author), Maxim Griffin (Illustrator) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021	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
	Connecting Nothing with Something by Gary Budden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kit Caless (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Salena Godden 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	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
	Knotweed (Galley Beggar Singles Book 0) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	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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