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Writing in the New England of the early 20th Century, HP Lovecraft managed to create a bleak, horrific universe that challenged the growing confidence of the era.

Lovecraft’s vision came to be called the Cthulhu Mythos, named after the terrifying alien god that he created in his stories (an image of which you can see at the top of this page).

Lovecraft’s hopeless, pitiless universe has been expanded upon, adorned and embellished by many subsequent authors. I hope I will prove to be a worthy addition to that list.

About Darkisle

Darkisle is my fictional Irish Sea island, just off the coast of Great Britain. Nominally part of England, Darkisle has it’s own hidden history dating back far beyond when humans first stood on it shores.

Darkisle is an outlier. A fragment of an unspeakable world from the depths of unknown aeons. A place touched by terrible cosmic magic. A land where the locals keep their doors barred at night and shun strangers.

But the world is changing, and intrepid outsiders want to uncover the island’s secrets. Are you one of them?

About my fiction

Haunted by an event he has made himself forget. Scarred by the Great War. A failed scholar, a frustrated policeman, a discharged soldier… and now a Private Detective in 1920s Manchester. Meet Jack Glennison, through whose eyes you will witness the events that unfurl on Darkisle. The first four books in the Glennison Darkisle Cases series are out now.

A lot of my stories will be set in the 1920s – the ‘Golden Age’ of the Cthulhu Mythos, in many ways. However, revisiting the past allows me to offer up a lens to the present. Just as Lovecraft’s fears found their way into his work, so too will my Darkisle cycle resonate with our all-too-real modern day concerns .