Gavin Kendall
I’m living in the South-East of England between London and Brighton. I’ve been married to Laura since 2000 and have two daughters. (Emily & Freya). I’ve always had a passion for horror and decided, as a hobby, that I’d like to create a blog to showcase this fascination with the darker genres.
I started Kendall Reviews in January 2017, initially to host my reviews of books and music that I had in my sizeable collections. This became a passion project pretty quickly and morphed into a blog that wanted to help PROMOTE HORROR.
I want to thank all the people who interact with the blog and the rest of the Kendall Reviews team.
Please find all my contact details here
Favourite Novel: Books Of Blood (Clive Barker). Favourite Author: Clive Barker & Adam Nevill.
Favourite Movie: Se7en. Favourite Director: David Fincher.
Priscilla Bettis
Priscilla Bettis is an avid horror reader and passionate horror author. She’s also an excellent swimmer, which is good because vampires are terrible swimmers. Priscilla shares a home in the Northern Plains of Texas with her two-legged and four-legged family members.
Amazon author page: Priscilla-Bettis
Blog: www.priscillabettisauthor.com
Twitter: @PriscillaBettis
Favourite Novel: The Boatman’s Daughter (Andy Davidson). Favourite Author: Andy Davidson.
Favourite Movie: Kill Bill – Volume 1. Favourite Director: Quentin Tarantino.
Brian Bogart
Brian Bogart is an American author, residing in Northern Ireland. His love of genre fiction started at an early age, consuming every horror and fantasy book available. He has been published in various degrees online and contributed a short fiction piece, “TOCSIN”, to The One Million Project (OMP) Thriller Anthology to raise money for cancer research and the homeless. He loves to share his enthusiasm for the horror genre with others and help promote other authors.
His latest story, alongside many other authors, can be found in the pages of EPIC FANTASY SHORT STORIES, coming soon from Flame Tree Publishing.
Purchase OMP THRILLER here: Amazon UK
Preorder EPIC FANTASY SHORT STORIES anthology here: Flame Tree Press
Twitter @DreamsDarkly
Kendall Reviews https://kendallreviews.com/tag/brian-bogart/
Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/user/DreamsDarkly
Official Blog https://www.dreamdarklyblog.wordpress.com
Favourite Novel: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury). Favourite Author: Stephen King & Ray Bradbury.
Favourite Movie: The Thing. Favourite Director: John Carpenter & David Cronenberg.
Miranda Crites
Miranda Crites is a reader, writer, book reviewer, photographer, artist, and lover of horror from the ghostly woods of rural West Virginia.
She has a Writing for Children and Teenagers diploma although most of her current work is horror fiction and poetry.
Miranda is a member of Team Kendall Reviews at www.KendallReviews.com where you can find her horror book reviews and her monthly feature, Miranda Snaps, which generally contains horror fiction and photography.
She has artwork, including paintings and/or photography, published in the following books: “Black Dogs, Black Tales – Where the Dogs Don’t Die: A Charity Anthology for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand” edited by Tabatha Wood and Cassie Hart; “The Boy Whose Room Was Outside” by Steve Stred & The Kids; and “Of Witches…” by Steve Stred.
Miranda is one of “The Thirty,” which is a group of thirty authors who have each taken a turn in writing a chapter of a horror novel. “He Has Stayed Too Long”
You can follow Miranda on Instagram miranda_crites
Follow Miranda on Twitter @MirandaCrites
You can find out more about Miranda via her website www.mirandacritesreadsandwrites.com
Favourite Novel: Christine (Stephen King). Favourite Author: Stephen King.
Favourite Movie: The Crow & Christine. Favourite Director: Wes Craven & John Carpenter.
Paul Flewitt
Paul Flewitt is a horror and dark fantasy writer from Sheffield, UK, where he lives with his wife and two children.
Paul began publishing in 2012, beginning with the flash fiction story, Smoke, for OzHorrorCon’s Book of the Tribes anthology. He went on to pen further short stories, including Paradise Park, Climbing Out, Apartment 16c and Always Beneath.
In 2012, he also published his first novel, Poor Jeffrey, which was received to much critical acclaim.
Paul cites writers such as Clive Barker, Stephen King, James Herbert and JRR Tolkien as inspirations on his own writing.
Paul continues to write, contributing to Matt Shaw’s The Many Deaths of Edgar Allan Poe anthology in 2020 with The Last Horror of Dear Eddie. He also began releasing free short stories and fanfiction on his Wattpad account for fun.
Twitter: @RealPaulFlewitt
Favourite Novel: Imajica (Clive Barker). Favourite Author: Clive Barker.
Favourite Movie: Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, American History X. Favourite Director: Martin Scorcese.
Sarah Jane Huntington
I am the author of several short horror story collections, Paint it Black, Iron Maidens, Between light and shadow and Waves of Mutilation.
Cabin Terror is my first full-length novel.
My stories have appeared in a few anthologies so far.
I am a nurse, currently working in hospice care.
You can follow Sarah on Twitter @SarahJaneHunti1
You can find Sarah’s Books HERE
Favourite Novel: The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty). Favourite Author: James Herbert.
Favourite Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Favourite Director: Tobe Hooper.
The Grim Reader
The Grim Reader resides on the Gold Coast, Australia. A school teacher by day, a lover of dark fiction, heavy metal, Arsenal FC, bourbon and coffee at night.
The Grim Reader loves nothing more than reading and rocking.
Favourite Novel: The Dark Tower (Stephen King). Favourite Author: Stephen King.
Favourite Movie: The Thing. Favourite Director: John Carpenter.
Daniel James
Daniel James is an author of speculative (and frequently dark and weird) fiction, from Liverpool, England.
He is the recipient of two Kirkus Star reviews for his character-driven, explosive, dark fantasy novels Hourglass and The Ferryman’s Toll. Hourglass was also voted one of their Best 100 Indie novels of 2021.
From mewling infant to maladjusted adult, he was weaned on a healthy diet of John Carpenter, Stephen King, Clive Barker and comic books; meaning he’s naturally drawn to monsters and suspense. His novel Pigs, a dark and violent neo-noir revenge tale, was released by the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. He followed this up with Hourglass, and a reworking of his darkly psychedelic high school revenge story Fable (again with the revenge! I know…). His most recent books are the Liverpool-based folkloric horror fantasy Heathens, and book 2 in the Hourglass series, The Ferryman’s Toll.
When not writing he enjoys reading genre fiction, movies, playing guitar and illustrating to silence the voices in his head.
Favourite Novel: Swan Song (Robert McCammon). Favourite Author: Robert McCammon.
Favourite Movie: Palm Springs or Slither. Favourite Director: Guillermo del Toro, JohnCarpenter & James Gunn.
Blog: www.thegrumpyintrovert.com
Twitter: @DJauthor85
Yvonne Miller
Well, what can I say about myself? I’m a 33-year-old married woman and mum to 3 crazy boys, aged 13,6 and 4. My eldest has a genetic condition that causes a visual impairment so as you can imagine life can be very chaotic and provides many challenges along the way but I would 100% never change any of them. They fulfil my life beyond measure.
I adore books – I adore shouting about books! I’m a reviewer of mainly horror and dark fantasy. Whether that’s featuring werewolves, evil creatures or the depravity of humanity, I will read them all.
Favourite Novel: I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (Iain Reid). Favourite Author: Clive Barker.
Favourite Movie: The Babadook. Favourite Director: Guillermo del Toro.
Twitter: @coycaterpillar
Website: www.thecoycaterpillarreads.blog
Tarn Richardson
Tarn Richardson was brought up a fan of fantasy and horror, in a remote house, rumoured to be haunted, near Taunton, Somerset. He is the author of THE DARKEST HAND series, published by Duckworth Overlook in 2015-2017 and republished by RedDoor in 2019. Comprising of THE DAMNED, THE FALLEN, THE RISEN, and free eBook prequel THE HUNTED, the books tell the epic story of Inquisitor Poldek Tacit, battling the forces of evil to the backdrop of World War One. He has also written the novels, RIPPED, and THE VILLAGE IN THE WOODS, to be published in 2020 and 2021. He lives near Salisbury with this wife, the portraiture artist Caroline Richardson, and their two sons.
Twitter @tarnrichardson/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tarnrichardson.author/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tarnrichardson/
Official Website www.tarnrichardson.co.uk
Favourite Novel: The Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien). Favourite Author: Alan Moore.
Favourite Movie: This Is Spinal Tap. Favourite Director: David Lynch.
Steve Stred
Steve Stred is the Splatterpunk Nominated Author of ‘Sacrament’ and ‘Mastodon.’
Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Steve has released over a dozen novels and novellas as well as a number of collections. He has appeared alongside some of horror’s biggest names within some truly excellent anthologies.
He is a proud co-founder of the LOHF Writer’s Grant and an Active Member of the HWA.
Website: stevestredauthor.wordpress.com
Twitter: @stevestred
Instagram: @stevestred
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16356875.Steve_Stred
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/steve-stred
Amazon: amazon.com/author/stevestred
Favourite Novel: The Homecoming (Andrew Pyper). Favourite Author: Andrew Pyper.
Favourite Movie: The Bear. Favourite Director: John Carpenter.
J.A. Sullivan
J.A. Sullivan is a genderqueer horror writer whose short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including A Silent Dystopia (2021, Demain Publishing). As a dedicated member of the Kendall Reviews team, they regularly contribute horror book reviews, as well as writing “Scary’s Voices” a weekly column of horror podcast recommendations.
Sullivan has spent years as a paranormal investigator, has an insatiable appetite for serial killer information, and lives in Canada with their incredibly supportive husband. Updates on their writing journey, additional reviews, author interviews, and original fiction can be found on their blog.
You can follow J. A. on Twitter @ScaryJASullivan
Check out their blog https://writingscaredblog.wordpress.com
Find J.A. on Instagram www.instagram.com/j.a_sullivan
Favourite Novel: All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque). Favourite Author: Timothy Findley.
Favourite Movie: Jaws. Favourite Director: David Cronenberg.
Gary Twigg
I mainly write horror and paranormal thrillers although I am probably the most squeamish of people when it comes to watching horror movies and normally watch the scary parts through my fingers. Why I write in this genre of fiction is therefore quite ironic, but I’ve always been attracted to horror and thrillers in all their forms, whether on print or large and small screen. I have early memories of secretly watching Appointment With Fear with my older brother on an old black-and-white portable TV on Monday nights when we should have been asleep. The image of Christopher Lee crashing through French windows in the first Hammer Horror Dracula movie, with blood on his fangs chills me to this day!
Predictably, I am a huge fan of Stephen King, but also love writers such as Dean Koontz, Joe Hill, CJ Tudor and James Herbert. When I was a kid, I was fascinated and enthralled by Robert E Howard’s sword-and-sorcery tales of Conan The Barbarian and several other creations, and then by Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series. These stories really fuelled my imagination and made me want to write my own stuff. When my older brother introduced me to Stephen King, I was soon lost in even darker worlds and I haven’t wanted to come out of them ever since. My books are, therefore, quite disturbing, gory at times, but I try to also litter them with characters who, while flawed, display the finer human qualities such as bravery, loyalty, and above all love of other people above themselves. I hope that you think that I have succeeded in this.
In my normal life I work for a charity that supports blind and partially-sighted people and I am also a qualified psychotherapist. This is all after spending twenty-five years in the private sector, where I wasn’t just unfulfilled, but also monumentally bored. Working with people directly to help them solve their own problems was definitely a better fit for me.
I live in Cheshire with my wonderfully patient wife and our small dog, Bailey, who loves nothing better than cuddles, food, and waiting until I’m relaxed of an evening before she demands some attention.
Twitter: @garytwigg1
Favourite Novel: The Stand (Stephen King). Favourite Author: Stephen King.
Favourite Movie: The Green Mile. Favourite Director: N/A.
Ben Walker
Ben got a taste for terror after sneaking downstairs to watch The Thing from behind the sofa at age 9. He’s a big fan of extreme & bizarre horror and well as more psychological frights, and most things in between. When he’s not reading, he’s writing, and when he’s not writing he’s on Twitter @BensNotWriting or reviewing books on his YouTube channel, BLURB.
Favourite Novel: IT (Stephen King). Favourite Author: Clive Barker or Stephen King.
Favourite Movie: Candyman. Favourite Director: Larry Cohen.
Simon Paul Wilson
Simon Paul Wilson is a U.K. based writer of horror and science fiction.
He is currently writing a cyberpunk horror trilogy, the first of which is GhostCityGirl and was published by Not A Pipe publishing in 2020.
Click this link for more info: Ghost City Girl
There now follows a list of writers who have influenced his reading tastes and writing style:
James Herbert. Stephen King, Shaun Hutson, Clive Barker, China Mieville, Haruki Murakami, Carlton Mellick III, Brian Keene, and Adam Nevill.
Simon lives somewhere in the middle of England with his wonderful family. He likes to listen to post-rock and progressive rock at loud volumes. He also plays a mean air bass.
Follow him on Twitter: @spwzen
Favourite Novel: 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami). Favourite Author: Brian Keene or Neil Gaiman.
Favourite Movie: Oldboy. Favourite Director: Ridley Scott.
