Bio
UK-based author Jay Raven readily admits that watching classic horror films in his childhood left him with a lifelong fascination with vampires, werewolves and witches.
Straddling the windswept boundary between dark fantasy and Gothic horror, his historical writing whisks readers back to a time of harlots and hangmen, moonlit castles and cobbled streets, grave robbers and footpads, where life is cheap and murderous men are as dangerous as the monsters they hunt.
It’s his mission to give a fresh twist to traditional tales of terror, reinventing Hammer Horror for a modern audience, and when not writing in his creepy house set in a 500-acre woodland, he holidays in Eastern Europe gathering inspiration from the ruins, folktales and grisly legends he encounters. In answer to a question he is often asked: No, he doesn’t wear a cape!