Jasper Bark finds writing biographies, and talking about himself in the third person, faintly embarrassing. Telling you he’s won a This Is Horror Award, A Splatterpunk Award and been nominated for a British Fantasy Award and a Bram Stoker Award just sounds like boasting.
As does the fact that he’s written ten novels including the critically acclaimed Draw You In trilogy, eight novellas and two collections of short stories. Then he has to mention the huge number of comics and graphic novels he’s written for European and American markets, such as Beyond Lovecraft and Bloodfellas, and he just wants to curl up and die. Especially as he won an Educational Readers’ Award for his Battle Cries series and was nominated for an Eagle Award.
He’s awfully uncomfortable discussing his previous careers as a national film and music journalist, a cable TV presenter and a Fringe First Award winning stand up. Maybe he’s too British, or maybe he just needs a good enema, but he’s glad this bio is now over.
“Jasper Bark is a trickster of a writer, a performer on the page. A clown that's not slipping on a banana skin, but on a pool of freshly-spilled blood.”
Stephen Volk, BAFTA winning screenplay writer of Ken Russell’s Gothic, Ghostwatch and ITV’s Afterlife.
“Read every book you can find by Jasper Bark - a word magician of the highest order; prepare to have your mind blown...”
Cory Cline, Splatterzine
“A heady mix of folk horror and the psychological, of religious yearning and the uncannily atavistic, this compelling novella carries us through the darkest occult secrets to a cosmic revelation that may haunt your dreams.”
Ramsey Campbell
“Bark conjures a visionary blend of folklore and cosmic revelation that shines Gnostic themes through a twisted Lovecraftian prism.”
Douglas Wynne, author of The SPECTRA Files Trilogy
“Be warned, after reading The Final Cut you'll believe stories can kill.”
Aaron Sterns, co-writer Wolf Creek 2, Wolf Creek: Origin
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