Jez Conolly

Cunt.

Unbelievable. Or perhaps, tragically, highly believable.

I knew it immediately.

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Thank you Gree.

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I swing my axe. Blood splashes into my eyes. I should be more careful. I try again, this time mother’s head comes off cleanly. There’s no splashing. At least, none in my eyes. I can see now how I’m going to fit all of her body parts in the cupboard under the stairs. Neat.

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Humans are the best monsters. I write about people, so yes, they appear.

I’m not sure I even deal in moulds!

When I see the word ‘archetype’ I tend to think of ‘stereotype’ and ‘cliche’, so I avoid.

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I wouldn’t know where to start writing archetypes. I don’t even have protagonists in my stories. The starting point is a world of shit and death, then it takes a downward turn. 🤷

You need to read my book. I can tell you stories about screenings I’ve introduced and audience reaction!

I’ve gone with that because I’m contractually obliged to.

I’d better say The Thing, considering I’ve written a book about it.

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Jez - ‘kitchen sink’ prosaic horror - what is ‘action horror media’? I honestly have no idea. Movies? Does that count? I’ll say films then.

Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded...

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Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded...

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"Jez Conolly's "storied" interior odyssey… Capture Spiral is a user's guide for a night gallery of childhood-origin neuroses, and a celebration of the "great escape" we call imagination."
Stephen Volk, author of Ghostwatch.

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I’ll give it a go, but if I had to choose a word to describe the horror that I write, it’d be ‘inertia’ 😳

#WritersCoffeeClub 11 March: Does your writing reflect your morals? How so?

I hope not! The vast majority of my stories, and their outcomes, are thoroughly amoral. Why? Because:

a) that’s just how they come out
b) I wouldn’t presume to inflict my actual morals on a reader - they have their own.

Feast your eyes on these beauties!

I’m from Cleethorpes originally and I was very familiar with ‘kali’ from the sweet shop, which was like a more solid form of sherbet.

Not untrue

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Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly PREORDER In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded...

A quick update for anyone who has preordered a copy of my new book Capture Spiral. Copies are expected to be received from the printer this week, and posted out ASAP thereafter. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, and would like to, here’s the link.

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Combine that with stories about the Lincoln Imp and you could start to believe that the smell of sulphur in that part of England isn’t purely because of the drains.

I found my copy in a charity shop some years ago, for just £2. I didn’t realise at the time

a) quite what a bible it is
b) quite what a bargain that was

I’m just reviewing a WIP, and by crikey, have I over-hyphenated! Oops, there I go again!

Boris Johnson vibes

It’s not a real stork, if you’re wondering.

I think I speak for the vast majority of my British countryfolk, when, in response to his recent remarks, I say to Mr. Trump: ‘if you’d be so kind, please fuck off and die soon, you bigoted, lying, murderous, syphilitic rapist and child molester. Thank you very much’.

Well, at least I was polite.

a little boy is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books . Alt: a little boy is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books .

Stupid memory! I read a great quote recently and I can’t now remember the source. However, it’s good advice: write the kind of book that, in sixty years time, somebody will find at the bottom of a pile of books in a secondhand book shop, and think to themselves ‘this is weird, I’m gonna buy it’.

Yes, have done. One or two I was already following, but not the vast majority. The more the merrier!