Miss Linwood Entertains
“John Linwood Grant is one of those writers who leave the rest of us wondering why we even bother trying. From run-down hotels on the bleak off-season east coast of England to the battlefields of World War One, from Roman Britain to 1970s Yorkshire, from black humour to cosmic terror, Miss Linwood Entertains dons a range of masks and voices, evoking time and place and living, breathing characters that convince utterly, all without breaking the compelling flow of the story being told. I’m in awe, and I recommend this collection unreservedly.”
Simon Bestwick
“I first discovered John Linwood Grant's fiction five years ago. This new collection, Miss Linwood Entertains, reminds me of the fascination and excitement I felt experiencing that earlier collection. For my sensibilities, there is no separation or disconnect between Grant's work and that of Robert Chambers, E.F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson and M.R. James. He would have blended seamlessly with that distinguished fellowship of the best early 20th Century masters of the weird. Psychological complexity, brilliant but accessible language and atmospherics rife with nagging dread and sensory eidetic memory, compel the reader anxiously from one tale to the next. Highly and enthusiastically recommended!”
John McFarland
“An eclectic, confident collection demonstrating, like his stories and their speculative themes, John Linwood Grant’s literary talent is boundless.”
Dave Jeffery: British Fantasy Award and Bridport Prize finalist.
Author of ‘Mood Swings’ and the ‘a Quiet APOCALYPSE’ series.
John Linwood Grant
John Linwood Grant lives in Yorkshire with a pack of lurchers and a beard. He may also have a family. When he's not chronicling the adventures of Mr Bubbles, the slightly psychotic pony, he writes a range of supernatural, horror and speculative tales, some of which are actually published. You can find him every week on greydogtales.com, often with his dogs.
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