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Richard Pidwell

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in Chatham, The United Kingdom

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Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction

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Richard Pidwell writes psychological horror, dark speculative fiction and unsettling stories about fear, perception and the moment reality begins to slip.

His newest novel, The Static Bride, is British occult and analogue horror with a slow-burn, kiss-only romance: a Crown archivist catalogues a waterlogged 1983 wedding tape that names her as the bride.

Mindscript explores a different kind of horror: what happens when a story can change the person reading it. The Grammar of Attention is its psychological-horror prequel.

Richard writes for readers who enjoy creeping dread, strange mysteries, dangerous ideas and stories that linger after the last page.

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	The Grammar of Attention 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	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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Richard Pidwell's Blog: 5 Years in the Shadows: Why I Finally Hit ‘Publish’

The strange idea behind The Static Bride

The Static Bride started with one image I couldn't shake: a waterlogged VHS tape containing a recording of a wedding that had not happened yet. Stranger still, the woman watching it was the bride.

From there, the story grew around Mara Wren, a government archivist whose job is to catalogue things that should not exist. I liked the idea of taking something as ordinary as an old tape and letting it o Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 27, 2026 09:05 • Tags: dark-romantasy, fae-romance, gothic-horror, the-static-bride, writing

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