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R.R. Newman

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Crime, Fiction

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Raymond Chandler, Ruth Rendell, Gladys Mitchell, James Ellroy

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April 2012

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I grew up in Somerset and Devon, lived in London and Penzance, and am now based in Bristol. I'm fascinated by the dark side of West Country life – ditches, dark woods and declining towns where people go to disappear. ...more

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We need our flinches: on the cosiness of horror

It’s cowardice, isn’t it? That instinct that draws horror fans to old movies; camp, arch, silly films; and contemporary films set in the comforting warmth of the hand-knitted past.

The word ‘cosy’ has become an irritating background note in conversations around horror fiction.

It’s usually spoken about as a specific subset of work in the genre that offers “that happy ending, or low stakes”, as e

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R.R. Newman wrote a new blog post We need our flinches: on the cosiness of horror It’s cowardice, isn’t it? That instinct that draws horror fans to old movies; camp, arch, silly films; and contemporary films set in the comforting w Read more of this blog post »
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R.R. liked Alex Sarll's review of Intervals of Darkness: "There are certainly stories here which could huddle under the umbrella of the subgenre Ray self-defined with the title of his first collection, Municipal Gothic. The slipshod academics of MR James are updated into a John Harris-esque purveyor of half" Read more of this review »
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R.R. made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Adding two books to my author profilr topic " Hello! A few years ago I wrote a crime novel under the name R.R. Newman and that's the name I use on my author profile here. But my real name is Ray N ...more "
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