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You are visiting Priestley's Tales of the Unexpected, featuring dark and unconventional stories that twist the familiar into the uncanny...

• Tales of horror, both mainstream and folk.
• Visitations to the world of the weird, including New Weird.
• Haunting and supernatural tales.
• Speculative excursions.
• A soupçon, or more, of fantasy.
• And, as you might expect, tales of the unexpected... in any category.

Over time there will be a veritable smorgasbord of delightful mixed bites to feast on!

Interests and influences

My primary genre interests include Weird and New Weird fiction, haunting texts, folklore, and horror (especially folk horror).

I have a particular interest in the works of the Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machen (1863-1947), best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction; Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), a creator of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction; and English writer Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951), a broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, considered by many to have been among the most prolific ghost story writers in the genre’s history. I am also a fan of the works of Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, and Sir Terry Pratchett.

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Frequency of posts

Once inspiration strikes–and with robust research completed–I will drip-feed irregular stories to this site. Journal entries will appear with greater frequency.

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