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Jasper Bark

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Jasper Bark finds writing author biographies and talking about himself in the third person faintly embarrassing. Telling you that he’s an award winning author of four cult novels including the highly acclaimed ‘Way of the Barefoot Zombie’, just sounds like boasting. Then he has to mention that he’s written 12 children’s books and hundreds of comics and graphic novels and he wants to just curl up. He cringes when he has to reveal that his work has been translated into nine different languages and is used in schools throughout the UK to help improve literacy, or that he was awarded the This Is Horror Award for his last anthology ‘Dead Air’. Maybe he’s too British, or maybe he just needs a good enema, but he’s glad this bio is now over.

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Jasper Bark Michael, this is a great question. As you rightly pointed out in your review, there is a lot of eye symbolism in the novel, it's a purposeful motif. W…moreMichael, this is a great question. As you rightly pointed out in your review, there is a lot of eye symbolism in the novel, it's a purposeful motif. While I don't believe the author's opinion is ever the last word on something, I have been pronouncing Kyra's name as K-EYE-rah, just as you suggested.(less)
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Way of the Barefoot Zombie

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Rejection Letters - How to Write and Respond to Them

Greetings gentle reader, and welcome to my first Goodreads blog. It's reprinted from my regular column over on the excellent This Is Horror site. As some of you may have missed it first time around I think it's worth a rerun. As I'm a horror author it begins with a horror story. A real life horror story.

A good friend of mine, with an especially bad history of boyfriends, once told me a tale about Read more of this blog post »
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"I hadn't read this since high school, and it still had that creepiness factor I enjoy in classic horror. Somewhat Lovecraftian and much like an acid trip near the end, the book was definitely unique in its time. I'm not much on the "found diary" aspe" Read more of this review »
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
"Never heard of William Hope Hodgson. Saw this book listed as free last week and thought I would give it a go.

WOW!!!!!! This book totally blew me away. It starts with 2 men going on a camping trip in Ireland to do some fishing. They go for a walk one " Read more of this review »
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"Before I started reading "The House on the Borderland", I knew it was supposed to be original and a bit out-there, even by Hodgson's standards. It is that, and so much more. What starts out very much like a Victorian ghost story soons morphs into a n" Read more of this review »
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Jasper Bark Pat wrote: "Cheers Jasper for the friend request. Here's to reading some more great horrors in 2016!"

Hey Pat, only just seen your message, so forgive me writing back four years later, but 2016 was a good reading year for me, and I wrote a few books too. Hope you are well and still voraciously consuming horror books.


Jasper Bark Kayleigh wrote: "Hi Jasper, I'm sorry I haven't replied to your message, you must think me so rude! Every time I try to open it, it for some reason keeps circling me around to the log in page. Thank you for accepti..."

Hey Kayleigh, don't think you the lest bit rude. Goodreads can sometimes be alarmingly elliptical to use, though it's not as user unfriendly as LinkedIn. Great to be in touch here and I look forward to our book discussions too.


Jasper Bark Williwaw wrote: "Hey Jasper:

That book list of yours has to be some kind of record-breaking statistic, worthy of an entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"

Cheers!"


It would seem to suggest I'm completely illiterate wouldn't it.


Williwaw Hey Jasper:

That book list of yours has to be some kind of record-breaking statistic, worthy of an entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"

Cheers!


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