Writing, scripting, painting, photography, reading, watching movies and genre TV shows.
Music
U2, Keane, Nirvana, Snow Patrol, Nickelback, The Verve, The Cure, Coldplay, Stereophonics.
Movies
Hellraiser, Nightbreed, The Nightmare on Elm Street series, Halloween series, Silence of the Lambs, Solaris, Dune, Batman Begins, The Terminator trilogy, Blade Runner, The Fly films, The Alien series, The Ring, Jaws, Pitch Black, The Evil Dead Films, Romero's 'Dead' movies, The Indianna Jones Trilogy, The Star Wars original trilogy, The Planet of the Apes films, Memento, Usual Suspects, any Lynch movie and too many others to mention.
Television
Life on Mars, Lost, Dr Who, Star Trek, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, Monty Python, X-Files, Millennium, 4400, Battlestar Galactica (new version), League of Gentlemen, Masters of Horror, Vic and Bob, The Martian Chronicles, Day of the Triffids.
Books
The Rats (first horror novel I ever read), Books of Blood, The Shining, More Tommorrow, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Silence of the Lambs, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dune, Imajica, Smoke and Mirrors, Mirror Mere.
Heroes
Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, James Herbert, Stephen King, James Cameron, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Doug Bradley.
I'm a UK based horror and dark fantasy author with three collections published (Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, and FunnyBones), three novellas (Signs of Life, The Lazarus Condition, and Dalton Quayle Rides Out) and one mass market novel (Arrowhead, a post apocalyptic reworking of the Robin Hood myth - see below) so far. Also teach art, creative writing and film/media studies, plus run workshops with my wife the horror writer Marie O'Regan.
Trailer (C) Brad Watson.
Have also written more than 1000 articles and reviews for news-stand magazines (including SFX, DeathRay, Dreamwatch, Rue Morgue, Fangoria and The Dark Side) plus contributed to Wallflower's A-Z of Contemporary American Directors. My latest non-fiction book is The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy with an introduction by Doug (Pinhead) Bradley.
I co-edit the Terror Tales anthologies, edit the Shadow Writer books, and served at Special Publications Editor for the British Fantasy Society for five years, where I worked on projects with authors like Clive (Abarat & Hellraiser ) Barker, Robert (Legends) Silverberg, Brian (Spielberg's A.I.) Aldiss, Stephen (Eleventh Hour) Gallagher, Muriel (Furnace & The Tube) Gray, Graham (The Manitou) Masterton, Christopher (Roofworld) Fowler and many more.
Recently my story 'Dead Time' was adpated for the NBC/Lions Gate TV series Fear Itself - scripted by Steve (30 Days of Night) Niles and directed by Darren (SAW II-IV/Repo) Lynn Bousman. Renamed 'New Year's Day' this zombie tale starred Briana Evigan and Niall Matter.
You can find my site at www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers including Stephen King, James Herbert and Neil Gaiman.
Who I'd like to meet: Other authors, film-makers, people interested in the genre really.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:
“SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.” —Famous Monsters of Filmland
“John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes
Chicks dig scars, everyone knows that, right? Meet Severence DeSnappio, a man who creates ‘fake’ injuries for desperate clients. He’ll get you a stab wound, shot gun blast, snowboarding injury - but a bite from a great white shark?
Set in Miami, Chicks Dig scars is a lyrical, Lynchian mix of dream logic and hard boiled detection.
Hello there! Just a quick comment to let you know that you can now get my "The Pallet From Area 51" book on eBay! And you'll get a cool FREE ALIEN GIFT!!! Groovy! All the very best to you, Killian
... starring Alan Moore, Steve Aylett, Josie Long, Stewart Lee, Jeff Vandermeer, DH Wilson, Mr Solo, Robin Ince, Leila Johnston, 7-Inch Stitch, Bill Ectric, Andrew O'Neill, Mitzi Szereto, Mo Ali etc.
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Me? I'm still promoting my "Bukkakeworld" and "Planet of the Owls" anti-corporate horror novels from Silverthought Press, NY. Busy, busy, busy ... as usual.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel 
