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Simon Clark (1)

Author of The Night of the Triffids

For other authors named Simon Clark, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Simon Clark lives in South Yorkshire. He is the author of many short stories and over a dozen novels, including Vampyrrhic, Vampyrrhic Rites, Blood Crazy, Hotel Midnight and The Night of the Triffids and, for Severn House, London Under Midnight and Lucifer's Ark.
Image credit: Simon Clark at World Horror Convention 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. From Wikipedia by user Nihonjoe.

Series

Works by Simon Clark

The Night of the Triffids (2001) 299 copies
Vampyrrhic (1999) 244 copies
Blood Crazy (1995) 227 copies
The Tower (2005) 124 copies
Darkness Demands (2001) 111 copies
Stranger (2002) 104 copies
Nailed by the Heart (1995) 98 copies
Death's Dominion (1885) 92 copies
Darker (1996) 84 copies
The Dalek Factor (2004) — Author — 78 copies
Vampyrrhic Rites (2003) 72 copies
This Rage Of Echoes (2007) 68 copies
In This Skin (1774) 64 copies
King Blood (1997) 54 copies
Ghost Monster (2009) 49 copies
London Under Midnight (2006) 34 copies
The Fall (1998) 34 copies
The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (2014) — Editor; Contributor — 26 copies
Judas Tree (1851) 24 copies
Vengeance Child (2009) 23 copies
On Deadly Ground (2013) 21 copies
Exorcising Angels (2003) 20 copies
Bastion (2015) 19 copies
Whitby Vampyrrhic (2010) 16 copies
She Loves Monsters (2006) 15 copies
Sherlock's Demon (2013) 15 copies
Hotel Midnight (2005) 14 copies
This Ghosting Tide (2009) 14 copies
His Vampyrrhic Bride (2012) 13 copies
Lucifer's Ark (2007) 12 copies
Butterfly (2010) 11 copies
Stone Cold Calling (2008) 10 copies
The Spirited Sea (2013) 9 copies
Stone Cold (2013) 8 copies
The Midnight Man (2008) 7 copies
Blake's 7 - 4: Crossfire Part 1 (2017) — Author — 7 copies
Humpty's Bones (2011) 7 copies
Rage Master (1656) 7 copies
Her Vampyrrhic Heart (2013) 6 copies
The Gravedigger's Tale (1819) 6 copies
Bad News (Anthology) (2000) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Night of the Triffids (2014) 3 copies
Cemetery Dance Issue 63 (2010) 3 copies
Blood and Grit 21 (2011) 3 copies
Ascent 2 copies
Blood and Grit (1990) 2 copies
Demon Me 2 copies
The Pass 1 copy
Cold Legion (2019) 1 copy
Pond Life 1 copy

Associated Works

Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror! (2003) — Contributor — 720 copies
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997) — Contributor — 511 copies
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (2000) — Contributor — 259 copies
Classical Whodunits (1996) — Contributor — 188 copies
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013) — Contributor — 167 copies
Hellbound Hearts (2009) — Contributor — 157 copies
Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations (2013) — Contributor — 144 copies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 (2004) — Contributor — 129 copies
Once Upon a Crime (1998) — Contributor — 125 copies
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Six (2014) — Contributor — 109 copies
Dark Screams: Volume One (2014) — Contributor — 104 copies
Dark Delicacies III: Haunted (2009) — Contributor — 80 copies
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror (2002) — Contributor — 73 copies
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2011) — Contributor — 70 copies
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1963) — Contributor — 65 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Contributor — 57 copies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 09 (1998) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (Mammoth Books) (2012) — Contributor — 47 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV (1986) — Contributor — 46 copies
The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories (1996) — Contributor — 44 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII (1994) — Contributor — 42 copies
Murder Most Celtic: Tall Tales of Irish Mayhem (2001) — Contributor — 36 copies
The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910) — Introduction, some editions — 32 copies
Shivers (2002) 29 copies
Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales (2005) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Bitten Word (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies
Night Visions 12 (2006) — Contributor — 17 copies
After Death... (2013) — Contributor — 16 copies
Marked to Die: A Tribute to Mark Samuels (2016) — Contributor — 12 copies
Dark Screams: Volume Ten (2018) 12 copies
Terror Tales of the Lake District (2011) — Contributor — 10 copies
Poe's Progeny (2005) — Contributor — 10 copies
Exotic Gothic 5: Forbidden Tales from Our Gothic World (2013) — Contributor — 9 copies
Dark Voices 5 (1993) — Contributor — 9 copies
Survivors: Series Three (2015) — Author — 8 copies
Ten Tall Tales and Twisted Limericks (2016) — Contributor — 6 copies
Darklands: No. 2 (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies
Exotic Gothic 3 Strange Visitations (2009) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Horror Collection: Purple Edition: THC Book 3 (2019) — Contributor — 5 copies
Terror Tales of the Cotswolds (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies
TERROR TALES OF THE OCEAN (2015) — Contributor — 4 copies
Midnight From Beyond the Stars (2021) — Contributor — 4 copies
Midnight Never Comes (1997) — Contributor — 4 copies
Cemetery Dance Issue 69 (2013) — Contributor — 4 copies
Survivors: Series Seven (2017) — Contributor — 4 copies
Survivors: Series Six (2017) — Contributor — 4 copies
Survivors: Series Five (2016) — Contributor — 4 copies
Dark Shadows on the Moon (2001) — Introduction — 4 copies
Zombies Vs Robots: Diplomacy (2013) — Contributor — 3 copies
Terror Tales of Yorkshire (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies
Terror Tales of Wales (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Big Book of Blasphemy (2019) — Contributor — 3 copies
Scaremongers (1997) — Contributor — 2 copies
Midsummer Eve (2021) — Contributor — 2 copies
Derby Scribes Anthology 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Simon Clark - is the book 'Stranger' a sequel to 'Blood Crazy'? in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (August 2010)

Reviews

There are 18 stories weaved into the pages of this anthology and I am always happy when I see a new release by KJK Publishing as I know there are going to be some more horror authors to explore along with revisiting ones I have read from the past. Though I liked all the stories I have to say I pulled some favorites out of this collection and they are listed below.

Favorite stories from this collection are as follows with a tiny cryptic note:

It Walks About the Woods by Tom Deady: "Folklore legend could be real."

A Broken Man by Steve Stred: "Be careful what you trade away as there could be consequences."

Old Soul by R.J. Roles: "Experiencing death one too many times."

When Call the Deep by Mike Duke: "What really resides in the deep blue sea?"

The Old Man at the Gatehouse by Simon Clark: "Becoming a ghost is not what it is cracked up to be."

Soul Prism by Ruthann Jagge: "Glasses invention goes south."

Run Rabbit Run by Andrew Lennon: "If someone is dead make sure they are dead."

I Am the Storm by Michael Bray: "Desperate to see loved ones becomes a painful mind trip."

Taste for Adventure by Matthew A. Clarke: "Getting lost in the back country turns dire."

Beast by Kyle M. Scott: "Even furry beasts get to have some fun."

The Graveyard by Lee Mountford: "Becoming a ghost wouldn't be too bad or would it?"

Thoughts:

Another great collection filled with all kind of twisted nightmares from KJK Publishing! I probably say this every time I do a review for these books that KJK Publishing puts out and I will say it again - these books are great as I am able to get a taste of the authors that are gathered in each book and it makes me want to pursue their other work.

I have read many anthologies in my life, but interesting enough I almost own all of the collections put out by KJK Publishing as I really like and love all the authors that are intertwined in these books.

If you have not stepped into these anthologies then you need to go check them out as there are quite a few books now in the horror collection series - 12 to be exact. Giving this book four "Twisted Frightening" stars!

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BookNookRetreat7 | Jul 25, 2022 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Jack Crofton a poet employed as a script writer during Word War II is suddenly faced with people wanting to kill him. Finally escaping into a public house he meets Holmes and Watson who offer to help.
Though I finished the story I unfortunately really didn't take to it.
 
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Vesper1931 | 14 other reviews | Jul 29, 2021 |
I can tell you what I liked best in this book......the Necropolis itself. The Gothic imagery of the abandoned cemetery and the lavish Victorian era monuments is very haunting in and of itself. I picture it looking much like the old section of London's Highgate.

The plot was purely incidental; I would have been happy with an epistolary description of a series of walks through the Necropolis with all sorts of unexplained phenomena.
 
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Equestrienne | 3 other reviews | Jan 5, 2021 |
Ok follow on to the original.
½
 
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jamespurcell | 8 other reviews | Sep 26, 2020 |

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