I'm a horror writer from the UK working on my first full length horror novel. I've been a full time writer for six months, having spent years honing my skills with some awful work, all part of the learning curve! My books are available for Kindle and Kobo. I have a website, a Facebook and Twitter account and an Amazon author /author/valentineking. I'm a fan of twists in the tale, subversive chillers and I try to write the type of stories I love to read, short snappy horrors that get straight to the point.
Interests Reading and writing horror, photography, walking, running, complaining bitterly about the good old days, plotting revenge
Favorite Books It, The Shining, Night Shift, The Saga of Darren Shan, Oliver Twist, Stardust, The Graveyard Book, Zom-b, The Pit and the Pendulum, Domain, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Back to Life, Horns, Christine, The Long Walk, The Running Man, The Hunger Games, Les Miserables (one of the greatest books of all time) andfar too many others to mention!
Favorite Authors Stephen King, James Herbert, Neil Gaiman, Darren Shan, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Joe Hill, Paul Stewart, Robert Westall, Grant Naylor, George Orwell
Favorite Movies Christine, Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Dogma, Blair Witch Project, Poltergeist, Aliens, The People Under the Stairs, Parents, Threads, The Mist, Braindead, Videodrome, Existenz, The Children of Men
Favorite TV Shows The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The X-Files, Ghostwatch, Inside Number 9, The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville, Doctor Who, The Shining, The Room, Red Dwarf, Monkey Dust, The Day Today, Look Around You, Lost
Favorite Music Old time radio! The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Dark Fantasy, The Man in Black, Fear on Four, Fibber McGee and Molly and I'm finding new old shows to listen to all the time!
A woman snaps and kills her abusive husband...or so she thinks.
I never meant to kill him. There was one moment, just a single moment when I genuinely wanted him dead but that isn’t a crime is it? I mean on TV people get whacked over the head all the time. It never seems to do them much harm. They simply pass out for a bit and then they wake up and the show goes on as before. If I tell you what a bastard he was would that make it more understandable? It started with an argument as mos...
A driver hopes to dispose of the woman locked in his boot but a passing cop has other ideas...
He hadn't seen anyone since he passed that police car on the other side of the forest. Finally he thought it was safe to pull over, swerving onto the verge and killing the engine. The countryside seemed so quiet compared to the blasting noise of the stereo but he'd needed it loud to help drown out the hammering from the boot. Glancing back down the road, he spotted lights in the distance. Typical, the cop was already catc...
