Author: neilwilliamson

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2025 ROUNDUP

It’s that time again: December with a vengeance, and time to take stock my creative year. On the surface it feels like it was a quieter year compared to 2024, but that’s no bad thing. Fiction-wise, in 2025 I published three new short stories. At the start of the year, Her Little Ray Of Sunshine […]

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Pictcon

Off the back of the glorious mayhem that was the World Fantasy Convention down there in windy Brighton, I spent this weekend at an event that was both much cosier and closer to home, spiritually as well as geographically. Pictcon is a brand new convention, celebrating the multi-faceted Scottish genre community. Not just the writers […]

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Absolute Zero

If you’re suffering from the summer swelter, you might like me be slightly guiltily looking forward to the winter. Well, I have good news. Absolute Zero, a new anthology of cold-themed horror fiction is just around the corner, and I have grim little story in there called The Cold Case. The Cold Case is set […]

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My Authentic Shelf

New music alert! The sparkling new Disappointed Skeptics Club album is live on Bandcamp today! As ever, it was written and recorded during February Album Writing Month and then locked away in a drawer until the summer. I love doing that. Returning to it fresh not only allows me to make clear descisions about song […]

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Blood In The Bricks

A little over a year ago I approached Ian Whates of NewCon Press about an idea I had for an anthology. Like many horror readers I’d been wholeheartedly enjoying the folk horror boom, but I’d started to notice diminishing returns in terms of the originality in the stories I was reading. At the same time, […]

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BSFA award 2025 shortlist

The British Science Fiction Award shortlists for 2025 were just announced, and I’m beyond pleased to report that both Charlie Says and Nova Scotia vol2 are finalists in their categories. Being shortlisted for an award is always a major celebration, which means that I consider myself *incredibly* fortunate to have been somewhere on the BSFA […]

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Remains

If you’ve visited this blog before, you might remember that I’ve been writing a bunch of weird short stories on the theme of bequests and inheritances. I wrote about it back in 2023 while the idea was still coalescing and since then it’s turned into a pretty fertile source of inspiration. The stories have done […]

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