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Join hugely acclaimed horror writer and performer Jonathan Sims for a live reading and Q&A at The Storey.

Jonathan Sims is an award-winning writer, performer, and game designer whose work primarily focuses on the macabre, the grotesque, and the gentle touch of creeping dread. His fiction podcast The Magnus Archives (produced by Rusty Quill) won the 2021 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio as well as many other awards within the podcast sphere, and came to its conclusion after a complete run of 200 episodes (though a sequel The Magnus Protocol is currently in the works). His debut book, Thirteen Storeys, a London-based haunted apartment-block novel of social terror, was released from Gollancz in October 2020, and his second, Family Business, an exploration of memory, death and terror, is out now. He also runs story-game and TTRPG company MacGuffin & Co. with his partner Sasha Sienna, and does various voice artist, streaming and design work. He lives in Manchester with two ridiculous cats and an overwhelming backlog of books he hasn’t read yet.

Praise for Jonathan Sims:

“This is an astonishing debut from Jonathan Sims. A wonderful new twist on an age-old genre. 5 out of 5.”

SFX

“The book works both as a collection of inventive horror stories and as a cohesive novel, building to a nerve-jangling finale that reveals the shocking events at the party.”

The Guardian

“A modern horror classic from one of the most exciting writers in the field today.”

Starburst Magazine