KRIS ASHTON

You know that saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun”? It’s true. Painfully, heartbreakingly true. I completed my first full-length...

Enter, Night is to ’Salems Lot as ’Salems Lot was to Dracula: a literary homage of sorts, but also very much its own beast. Set in the...

While revisiting my published works a few weeks ago, I came across Eye Witness: Zombie, edited by T. W. Brown. I have a bad habit of...

What I couldn’t comprehend was how two readers – both self-proclaimed King fans – could have such a different opinion about the same...

Aussie sci-fi and horror fans now have a chance to get a signed copy of their own. Simply head over to the Goodreads giveaway page and...

They give birth to my latest sci-fi story, 'Test Case'. Here's how it came about. Many moons ago, my wife bought me a complete guide to...

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the character of Colonel Trautman (who 'created' Rambo) was not in the first draft of First...

There was a time when I had seen almost every horror movie on the shelves at my local Videomania. What can I say? I was influenced by...

In the course of my journalism career I have had one editor call me “extremely well organised” and two others call me “disciplined”. This...

I am going to disagree with Stephen King. Again. A link to an interesting article popped up in my Facebook feed this week. Penned by...

My science fiction story 'The Test Case' has been confirmed for the March 12 issue of online 'zine Perihelion SF. It will be free to...

I number among those generations who ‘benefited’ from the happy-clappy notion that learning grammar was old hat and writing should be all...

A new edition – call it version 2.0 – of the dark superhero anthology Corrupts Absolutely? is available now. As I write this, it has...

The essays and autobiographical writings of Stephen King have served as an intellectual touchstone throughout my life. It was through...

Nearly a decade after reading and delighting to Anthony Trollope’s An Editor’s Tale, I picked up this collection of novelettes for two...

The online science fiction ’zine Perihelion SF has accepted a long story of mine, ‘The Test Case’, for an as-yet-undetermined future...

For the small press author who sees only a small advance (if he or she is lucky) and a trickle of royalties on a book, reviews are the...

Growing up on a diet of 1980s movies gave me a taste for the ‘high concept’. Almost every story and novel I have published can be...

Because there are no hard and fast rules for using hyphens, they have subsequently been overused, underused and misused. Scratch around...

A clear pattern has emerged in Stephen King’s writing over the past 20 years. Whenever his story or novel is a period piece – think The...