I blame my older brother for being a writer. We shared a room together when we were growing up, and he used to bully me into making up stories about the cats in the street. Obviously, the more disgusting and rude the tale, the more successful it was. Characters included Swear Word Cat, Poo Poo Cat and Wee Wee Cat, each having their own catchphrase and trademark move.
I never really grew out of all of this and have been writing with various degrees of success and vulgarity ever since. Growing up where we did helped too. An estate that sat between scrap yard, Victorian viaduct and strange patches of woodland just behind houses. Where gangs of kids, told to get from under mom's feet, up to no good, taught each other the precision of banter and working-class wit, taught us about porn and fags and illicit worlds. We were tough and sharp and loyal in Stambermill. This has worked its way into my novel, as you'd expect. Set in Netherton and Dudley, my characters are the same type of gang - ostensibly filthy to many observers, but check those lenses again and look - our yeds am cut like Royal Brierley. I blame my brother for being a Weird Fiction writer too, or Slipstream or folk horror or whatever it is. He bullied me into watching and reading horror films and fiction far too early in my life. That’s probably on Dad too. That thrill-terror I got from Clive Barker, Wes Craven, John Carpenter and The Point Horror Book Series is, to use a Weird Fiction Metaphor, a parasitic worm that continues to act as a muse and homunculus - I am its lover and its feed. I never really grew out of all that. Much of my work has focused on abjection, the uncanny, sex and death, fear-fascination. Those Freudian Ambivalences. Those Lacanian and Kristevan residues. This is what my novel, Bella, has in its arsenal too - something that lingers, something that draws one in, something that might enlighten or engulf. In its creeping threshold position, we can't help but reach out to touch, to smell, to taste, even though we know we might be consumed. We mark the warning on the gates of the nether - All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here. But we must enter; (whispers Jung) for only through filth will it will be found. You can buy Bella from Wild Pressed Books - http://www.wildpressedbooks.com/bella.html
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