After the over-excitement of announcing Occult Detective Quarterly, back to our usual business on greydogtales – chatting to creative people, signposting new stuff and chasing lurchers. So today we have an interview with author Rich Hawkins, who has surged onto the serious horror field in the last few years. This may be due to his strong, imaginative writing, or it may be because he keeps manufacturing hordes of plague-ridden monstrosities to back him up.

Possibly the result of a Government genetic experiment to see if humans really could thrive in the South of England, Rich lives in Salisbury, and has a dog. Which is a good start. But when we say horror this time, we do mean horror – the post-apocalyptic struggle for survival, buckets of despair and nightmarish creatures, not just a bit of the old weird. Be warned.  We’ll talk about his work in the interview, so let’s listen in… Continue reading The Last Writer: An Interview with Rich Hawkins →