Author: Simon John Cox

So, my horror ebook The Slender Man has been out there on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Smashwords for about a week now, and I've been bowled over by the response. The feedback from readers has been universally positive, and I've been lucky enough to have had readers tell their friends about how much they enjoyed the… Continue reading Slender Man – follow-up and thanks

"The bare sleeve of grass outside the garden is empty, and the forest is black and deep and bottomless. Beyond the fence the thin trail slides almost imperceptibly away from the garden to the trees that reach up like blackened limbs, and my eyes are drawn along it. For a moment the forest seems to… Continue reading Slender Man ebook

I'm really excited by the interest that's been shown so far in the launch of my ebook short story The Slender Man.The Facebook launch event is thrumming along quite nicely, with more than 40 lovely people attending and getting involved along the way, and my advance readers have already returned some quite unexpected praise for… Continue reading The Slender Man – ebook launch – update

I've just read Sara Ghost by Matt Posner, a short story from the School Of The Ages series. Three caveats: one, it's not my usual genre, two, I've not ready any of the other School Of The Ages series so I'm coming at it completely cold, and three, everything here is just my opinion (which… Continue reading Sara Ghost by Matt Posner

I recently downloaded a demo of an upcoming game called Sniper Elite V2. "Ooh," I thought, "A game in which I get to sneak around Berlin with a sniper rifle, secretly thinning the ranks of evil Nazis before melting away into the night. That sounds like fun.""I hope I can ignore the fact that many… Continue reading Killing Nazis has never been so depressing

As a taster, here's an excerpt from my upcoming horror short story The Slender Man:TranscriptStephen Connor / Keston, Lancashire, England / 12.2.83Interviewer: Det. Derek BarnesSC: Is it on?DB: Yes, it’s on.SC: Is anyone listening?DB: It’s just you and me and the tape recorder.SC: There’s no-one in the other room?DB: Why don’t you tell me what… Continue reading The Slender Man ebook – excerpt

My internet friend and fellow Kindle All Star Tony Healey is about to publish Far From Home 2: Commander, and to celebrate the launch he is giving three people the chance to appear as a character in the third installment in the series, Far From Home 3: Hero. To win this chance all you have… Continue reading Become a Far From Home Hero

On the 27th of October I will be releasing my short horror story, The Slender Man. It's about 18,000 words long (so quite a long short story), and will be available as an ebook via Amazon and Smashwords. The Slender Man is a pretty terrifying character, I think - read more about him here -… Continue reading The Slender Man – ebook launch

I blogged recently about recording some short stories for the Tunbridge Wells 2012 Electric Lantern Festival with Sam Marlow. Well, the recordings have now been edited and electronically jiggered into mp3 files that you can download and listen to, and I've also converted the stories into ebook formats that you can download from Smashwords:After Jeff… Continue reading All’s Wells Read That Ends Wells Read