I’m Andy Hawthorne, a horror writer and columnist from Coventry, England. I'm getting on in years — 61 now.
I write short horror fiction about ordinary people whose lives take a wrong turn. I’m interested in what happens when something familiar stops feeling safe: a place, a person, a conversation that isn’t going quite as it should.
Alongside the fiction, I write Dispatches: columns about everyday life, things I notice, and things I can’t quite leave alone. Sometimes a conversation gets me started. Sometimes it’s a small irritation that turns out to have something else underneath it.
The stories and columns come from much the same place: an interest in people, how they speak, what they do, and what they leave unsaid. Not everything needs explaining. I like giving readers room to make up their own minds.
On this blog, you’ll find both. Short stories when there’s something lurking. Dispatches when there’s something on my mind.