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]
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]