# Simon Bestwick

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{{Short description|British horror writer}}
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'''Simon Bestwick''' (born 1974) is an English author of British contemporary horror.

== Biography ==
Bestwick attended the [University of Salford](/source/University_of_Salford) which he graduated from in 1996 with a 2:1 degree in Media and Performance.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bestwick|first=Simon|date=|title=Simon Bestwick|url=http://simon-bestwick.blogspot.com/p/about.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=4 June 2020|website=Simon Bestwick}}</ref>

Writer [Ramsey Campbell](/source/Ramsey_Campbell) has described Bestwick, along with Gary McMahon, [Alison Littlewood](/source/Alison_Littlewood) and [Joel Lane](/source/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”.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Walter|first=Damien|date=29 Jan 2016|title=The ominous ordinary: horror writers finding scares in the everyday|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jan/29/the-ominous-ordinary-horror-writers-finding-scares-in-the-everyday|access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref>

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',<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 August 2014|title=TIH 020: Simon Bestwick on Writing Serials, Joel Lane and Plotting|url=https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/this-is-horror-podcast-episode-020-simon-bestwick-interview/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=4 June 2020|website=This Is Horror}}</ref>  and his short story ‘Below’ is due to be reprinted in Best Horror of the Year # 12 (September 2020).{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

== Awards and honours ==

* 2009 – [British Fantasy Award](/source/British_Fantasy_Award) nomination for best novella for “The Narrows”<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=30 March 2009|title=British Fantasy Awards 2009: the Shortlist!|url=https://www.britishfantasysociety.org/british-fantasy-awards/british-fantasy-awards-longlist/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=4 June 2020|website=British Fantasy Society}}</ref>
* 2012 – [British Fantasy Award](/source/British_Fantasy_Award) nomination for best short story for “Dermot”<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=5 July 2012|title=British Fantasy Awards shortlist announced|url=https://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/bfs-awards-shortlist-announced/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=4 June 2020|website=British Fantasy Society}}</ref>
* 2019 – [British Fantasy Award](/source/British_Fantasy_Award) nomination for best horror novel for “Wolf's Hill”<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=23 September 2019|title=British Fantasy Awards 2019|url=https://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/british-fantasy-awards-2019/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=4 June 2020|website=British Fantasy Society}}</ref>
* 2019 – [British Fantasy Award](/source/British_Fantasy_Award) nomination for best novella for “Breakwater”<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=23 July 2019|title=British Fantasy Awards 2019|url=https://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/british-fantasy-awards-2019/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=4 June 2020|website=British Fantasy Society}}</ref>

== Selected works ==

=== Books ===

* ''Power of the Dog:'' Precinct 13 Publications, 1998.
* ''Tide of Souls:'' Abaddon Books, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1906735142}}
* ''The Faceless:'' Solaris, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1907992742}}
* ''Let's Drink to the Dead'': Solaris, 2012. {{ASIN|B00AIM7PTE}}
* ''The Condemned:'' Gray Friar Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1906331412}}
* ''Hell's Ditch:''  Snowbooks, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1909679696}}
* ''Devil's Highway:''  Snowbooks, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1909679900}}
* ''The Feast of All Souls'': Solaris, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1781084618}}
* ''Angels of the Silences'': Omnium Gatherum Media, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0692619384}}
* ''Wolf's Hill'': Snowbooks, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1911390503}}
* ''Breakwater'': [Tor](/source/Tor_Books), 2018. {{ASIN|B079Y41MRR}}

=== Collections ===

* ''A Hazy Shade of Winter'': Ash-Tree Press, 2004. {{ASIN|B006WBJ4IK}}
* ''Pictures of the Dark'': Gray Friar Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1906331085}}
* ''And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost'': ChiZine, 2019.  {{ISBN|978-1771485227}} (Out of Print), and reprinted by Horrific Tales, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1910283264}}

=== As editor ===

* ''Oktobyr '98:'': Precinct 13 Publications, 1998.

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Category:English horror writers
Category:21st-century British novelists
Category:21st-century British short story writers
Category:British male novelists
Category:British male short story writers
Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:Alumni of the University of Salford

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