Simon Clark (novelist)

Simon Clark
Clark at the 2008 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Born	(1958-04-20) April 20, 1958 Doncaster, England
Genre	horror
Website
www.bbr-online.com/nailed

Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster, England. He started by writing stories for fanzines. One of these was the semiprozine Back Brain Recluse(BBR). His first published collection of stories was Blood And Grit published by BBR in 1990. In 1994 an editor called Nick Austin at Hodder Headline bought both Nailed By The Heart and Blood Crazy. An agent agreed to represent him. At this point he decided to become a full time writer.

After his seventh novel had been published in England the American publisher Leisure Books republished his first book Nailed by the Heart. Clark's first book directly for the American market was Darkness Demands. Despite this it was set in the small village English village of Skelbrooke, in South Yorkshire.

One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids. Clark says that from first reading The Day of the Triffids he thought there should be a sequel. However it was being stuck on a train in flooded countryside that finally compelled him to write it. His agent contacted the trustees of the estate of John Wyndham who agreed to the proposal.

Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award. In 2001 he won the British Fantasy Award for best short story, "Goblin City Lights", and the aforementioned The Night of the Triffids. In 2011 he won the British Fantasy Award for best novella for Humpty's Bones.

He is also the author of the Doctor Who novella The Dalek Factor.

Simon Clark was one of the first authors ever to have a website. It was made for him by Chris Reed of Back Brain Recluse(BBR). It has recently been updated but the original has been archived at the British Library. (See External Links)

His agent is Lesley Pollinger of Pollinger Ltd

Bibliography

Churchyard at Skelbrooke

Novels

• Nailed By The Heart (1995) Hodder Headline Reissued by Leisure Books 2000 ISBN 978-0843947137
• Blood Crazy (1995) Hodder Headline Reissued by Leisure Books 2001 ISBN 978-0843948257
• Darker (1996) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340660607
• King Blood (1997) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340660621
• Vampyrrhic (1998) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340696095
• The Fall (1998) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340696118
• Judas Tree (1999) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340739143

Graveyard in Whitby

• Darkness Demands (2001) Leisure Books ISBN 978-0843948981
• The Night of the Triffids (2001) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340766019
• Stranger (2002) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709072249
• Vampyrrhic Rites (2003) Hodder Headline ISBN 978-0340819418
• In This Skin (2004) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709076551
• The Tower (2005) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709080022
• London Under Midnight (2006) Severn House Publishers ISBN 978-0727863980
• Death’s Dominion (2006) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709081890
• This Rage of Echoes (2007) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709085331

Dalek

• Lucifer's Ark (2007) Severn House Publishers ISBN 978-1847510396
• The Midnight Man (2008) Severn House Publishers ISBN 978-1847510617
• Vengeance Child (2009) Severn House Publishers ISBN 978-0727867056
• Ghost Monster (2009) Leisure Books ISBN 978-0843961799
• Whitby Vampyrrhic (2009) Severn House Publishers ISBN 978-0727868312
• His Vampyrrhic Bride (2012) Severn House Publishers ISBN 978-0727881847

Novellas

• Doctor Who: The Dalek Factor (2004) Telos Publishing ISBN 978-1903889305
• She Loves Monsters (2006) Necessary Evil Press ISBN 978-0975363546
• Stone Cold Calling (2008) Tasmaniac Publications ISBN 978-0980386844

Gravedigger

• This Ghosting Tide (2009) Bad Moon Books ISBN 978-0982154625
• Humpty’s Bones (2010) Telos Publishing ISBN 978-1845838591
• Butterfly (2010) Cemetery Dance Publications ISBN 978-1587671593

Collections

• Blood & Grit (1990) BBR Books ISBN 978-1872588032
• Salt Snake and Other Bloody Cuts (1999) Silver Salamander ASIN B000FNS0FO
• Hotel Midnight (2005) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709078197
• Midnight Bazaar – A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales (2007) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709083443
• The Gravedigger’s Tale (2010) Robert Hale Ltd ISBN 978-0709091196
• Blood and Grit 21 (2011) BBR Solutions Ltd ASIN B0060734AK

Adaptations

A Big Finish Productions audio adaptation of The Night of the Triffids written by Simon Clark was released in September 2014. It stars Sam Troughton as David Masen.

Critical Reactions

Clearly marketed as a genre horror title, this crafty continuation is elegant in its construction. Clark's prose is clean, thoughtful and perfectly suited to his faux doomsday-memoir approach. Less cautionary than the original, but more literary than many books of its ilk, this is a truly enjoyable voyage. Review of The Night of the Triffids in Publishers Weekly

External links

• Author's website
• Author's original website archived at the British Library
• Simon Clark at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Simon Clark at Pollinger Ltd