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Simon Bestwick (born 1974) is an English author of British contemporary horror.
Bestwick attended the University of Salford which he graduated from in 1996 with a 2:1 degree in Media and Performance.[1]
Writer Ramsey Campbell has described Bestwick, along with Gary McMahon, Alison Littlewood and Joel Lane, as part of a class of contemporary British writers developing a “consciously political form of horror fiction, using the genre to examine and symbolise Thatcher’s Britain and the country’s subsequent decades”.[2]
His short stories have been reprinted in Best Horror of the Year #1 'The Narrows', Best Horror of the Year #4 'Dermot' and 'The Moraine', Best British Fantasy 2013 'Dermot',[3] and his short story ‘Below’ is due to be reprinted in Best Horror of the Year # 12 (September 2020).[citation needed]
- 2009 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best novella for “The Narrows”[4]
- 2012 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best short story for “Dermot”[5]
- 2019 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best horror novel for “Wolf's Hill”[6]
- 2019 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best novella for “Breakwater”[7]
Books
- Power of the Dog: Precinct 13 Publications, 1998.
- Tide of Souls: Abaddon Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1906735142
- The Faceless: Solaris, 2012. ISBN 978-1907992742
- Let's Drink to the Dead: Solaris, 2012. ASIN B00AIM7PTE
- The Condemned: Gray Friar Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1906331412
- Hell's Ditch: Snowbooks, 2015. ISBN 978-1909679696
- Devil's Highway: Snowbooks, 2016. ISBN 978-1909679900
- The Feast of All Souls: Solaris, 2016. ISBN 978-1781084618
- Angels of the Silences: Omnium Gatherum Media, 2016. ISBN 978-0692619384
- Wolf's Hill: Snowbooks, 2018. ISBN 978-1911390503
- Breakwater: Tor, 2018. ASIN B079Y41MRR
Collections
- A Hazy Shade of Winter: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. ASIN B006WBJ4IK
- Pictures of the Dark: Gray Friar Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1906331085
- And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost: ChiZine, 2019. ISBN 978-1771485227 (Out of Print), and reprinted by Horrific Tales, 2020. ISBN 978-1910283264
As editor
- Oktobyr '98:: Precinct 13 Publications, 1998.
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