ALL THE LATEST STUFF…
09 December 2025: A new story for Christmas: The Moment of Existence.
05 September 2025: The non-fiction archaeology continues: Gods, Monsters and Magic – Adventures in Pagan Germanic Europe
10 August 2025: And more repackaged old non-fiction: People, Earth and Sky – Adventures in Ancient Cosmology
07 July 2025: Yet another free pdf for download: Dead Knights and Wounded Kings
07 May 2025: Another free pdf for download Straight Track, Crooked Road – Leys, Spirit Paths and Shamanism
06 May 2025: Free downloadable pdf of my 2022 collection Grail and Cosmos – Arthurian Explorations
28 April 2025: Free downloadable pdf of my 1997 book Ymir’s Flesh – North European Creation Mythologies
23 April 2025: Free downloadable pdf of my 2003 book Explore Shamanism
13 March 2025: A new story. Altered States. Or, how America failed.
08 December 2024: A bonus Christmas story! All is Calm, All is Bright – a companion piece to Evergreen.
01 December 2024: The Christmas story! Evergreen – a cautionary tale.
14 November 2024: A new short story – Machine Learning. A space operetta.
28 September 2024: Hot off the keyboard, a new short story: The. A sort of horror story.
5 September 2024. Signs and Wonders, a new collection of short stories.
12 August 2024: A new novel, the third this year, the last of the pre-illness backlog. Magic Eye, a science fitcion occult police-procedural ant-thriller sort of thing.
17 May 2024: A new novel. Shadows of the Day Before – this one is mostly about Surrealism.
7 April 2024: A (very) short story: Flutters.
18 March 2024: A new novel: Out of the Woods – an existential horror story.
28 December 2023: The Christmas story for 2023: Eve.
23 December 2022: A bonus second Christmas story! The No Man.
7 December 2022: The Christmas story: Nicked.
19 October 2022: A brand new story from myself. Me and Johnny Midnight.
19 October 2022: From 1989, by way of a 1991 reprint and a raft of corrections and reformatting in 2022, a piece of textual archaeology. Wyrd: Fate and Destiny in North European Paganism is available as a free pdf download – see the Nonfiction page.
3 December 2021: The 2021 Christmas story, Red, Red, Red. Seasonal cheer? I think you may have come to the wrong place.
30 November 2021: At last! The Clerkenwell Writers Asylum Fourth Short Story Collection is here.
“All stories are works of imagination but within these pages, thinly veiled or otherwise, you may detect reality (of a sort). Disease stalks the land, elderly citizens are denied their rights, great walls are built or unbuilt, and vigilantes prowl our shores. Sins of varying magnitudes are committed, punished and eaten. Of course, there is love too, young love; but also forbidden, denied, repressed love. Libraries feature, as perhaps they should, but not at a swimming pool, which is probably for the best. There is fire, with or without brimstone, recalcitrant furniture rubs shoulders with imaginary daughters and, almost inevitably, there is trouble at a mill.”
27 short stories by David Douce, Rachel Firth, David Gleave, James Holden, Simon Jones, Andy Munro and Alby Stone. The Clerkenwell Writers Asylum Fourth Short Story Collection – out now as a paperback or e-book available from Amazon.
Any proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
14 July 2021: Another collection of short fiction, Unearthly Hours.
12 June 2021: A new novella, White Devil. A ghost story.
4 April 2021: A new short story from The Management, Three Spirits Encountered in a Hospital – based on recent experience.
30 January 2021: A new novel. Acid Dawn, out now.
12 December 2020: Two new short stories by Himself. Glasto vrMix 2.0 and Adoration of the Magi – the former exploring the likely future of entertainment, the latter being this year’s Christmas story.
8 November 2020: A slight deviation from fiction. Grail and Cosmos: Arthurian Explorations collects A Splendid Pillar: Images of the Axis Mundi in the Grail Romances (1992), The Bleeding Lance: Myth, Ritual and the Grail Legend (1992), and The Questing Beast and Other Cosmic Dismemberments (1993), all originally published as booklets by Heart of Albion Press; and A Head on a Platter, first published in Pendragon in 1997. Snapshots of a former life spent delving among dusty tomes for ancient lore and arcane information. Plus ça change…
2 June 2020: A new short story, A Touch of Pan. Old Nick meets an old customer.
1 April 2020: A new short story, Words of Fire. A meditation on Covid-19, lockdown and politics.
25 February 2020: A new novel, EDIE. A spot of sci-fi horror.
18 December 2019: Gaudete – A Christmas story, with added brimstone.
9 January 2019: A new year, a new book. A Deeper Darkness.
2 December 2018: The now-traditional seasonal short, Surviving Christmas.
26 October 2018: A new story by me – Grandfather.
19 June 2018: A new short story – Wigwam Ban Man (a spot of splenetic reductio ad absurdam). And two new books, a rather long one called The Lantern Men and a rather short one, Third Sight. Out now, if you’re feeling flush and are at a loose end.
28 April 2018: A new thing – a short, current-affairs based sketch. The Day the Earth Still Stood. And a bit more SF-themed nonsense, The Discovery. Mea culpa.
27 February 2018: A short experimental novel by me: The Midnight Lamp.
10 December 2017: A Christmas story – For Goodness Sake.
21 September 2017: Three pieces of flash fiction by Simon Jones – Luck, Power Cut and Revenant.
21 September 2017: A new short novel from the management: Nocturne.
25 June 2017: Two short stories: A Contract is a Contract and Dog and Pony Show.
21 April 2017: A new novel by the proprietor – House of Dust.
12 March 2017: Three pieces of fiction by Jim Kimmis: The Death of Stories, Natural History and The Keystone.
9 February 2017: The Clerkenwell Writers Asylum is featured in the January/February edition (#35) of The Clerkenwell Post. Includes an exclusive short story by me, Hyena at the Watering Hole. Read it here.
21 January 2017: A new short story from me: Round Here. The hazards of stopping off for a quick drink in a rural boozer.
20 January 2017. A brand new novel – The Canaanite. Out now.
The 2016 Christmas story! My very own Bean Feast.
Hot on the heels of the latest from the Clerkenwell Writers Asylum, another collection of my own short fiction: Possibly Dangerous.
Another collection of short stories from the Clerkenwell Writers Asylum, including a few from me: Morbid and Disgusting Tales. Out now!
The ninth and final book in the Havensea/Wonderland Investigations cycle. The Gorgon’s Daughters.
A new short story from the usual suspect: Blank/Flash.
New novel: Woodwise. A ghost story of the possibly hairy kind. Out now.
A new short story from the proprietor: A Minority Reports.
New novel: Fox. A mystery kind of thing. Available now from Amazon…
