S. T. Blake

I’m an Anglo-Irish writer of stories that have a fantastical or paranormal worldview – often containing darkness, but also touched with satirical humour. I’ve always liked stories that seem rooted in everyday reality but have fantastical elements which serve to unhinge the recognisable world in a surprising or unsettling fashion. For me, that description fits a range of writers, including Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, H.P. Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman, Caitlin R. Kiernan and Thomas Ligotti. My first novel is a dark urban fantasy, called Feline Alchemy. My second novel is released in Oc