…and it’s an absolute blast, with a headlong plunge of a plot and some of the vilest monsters that I’ve ever been (un)lucky enough to come across. But of course, such monstrous exuberance carries a heavy price. Yes, dear reader: as you’ve seen, THE DEAD’s unfortunate author David Gatward has now been consigned to the [...]
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Bite Me
Here’s a link to an interview with me about my book Crawlers at terrific new horror fan website Snakebite Horror. It contains an exclusive sneaky early announcement of thrilling developments currently afoot right here at Trapped By Monsters. Take a look. ;D Sam
Coming Soon: A Story Never Told Before!
Stand by for a brand new collaborative story to be created spontaneously and episodically by all eight TBM authors. Over the coming weeks – or until the wheels fall off – we will be TAKING TURNS to write… THIS: THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR! may (or may not) contain: A grater! A pair of broken spectacles! A [...]
HEY!
Remember the deal? Remember how we poor, captive TBM authors only get fed if we write posts for the blog? Well: I know my posts last week were all from my new book Crawlers, but after putting up FIVE of them I was hoping at least to be given something decent to eat for a [...]
BEWARE!
I have an announcement to make! Followers of TBM might remember Jethro’s Ace of Hearts, the story I posted here episodically together with some glorious artwork by our own David Melling. Well: during the next week (starting Mon 8th March) I am going to serialize the opening scene of my new book, Crawlers. The official [...]
Research, Research
Two items of Q&A for you. The first is something I was asked this week via the MySpace page of Jagmat from The Black Tattoo. Huge respect and kudos – partly just for not letting the whole shapeshifting blancmange monster thing put him off! – to Mykell, from Maryland, USA, who wondered: What kind of [...]
So, wotcha fink?
After I foolishly mentioned that I’d once read a magazine about web-design, the monsters decided I should do a redesign of the Trapped By Monsters website. I tried to protest – tried to explain to them I had deadlines to meet, and school events to organise, and a monkey to start training for next year’s [...]
Ooooookay…
Not only have the monsters given us reasonably fast, semi-reliable internet access so we can update this site, they’ve also given us access to see how many people are visiting, what pages they’re coming from, where in the world they live, etc, etc. One aspect of these statistics I find fascinating is the “Search phrase” [...]
Meeting Tonight
OK, so everyone should now have received directions to the hotel. Go past the old, abandoned fairground, turn right at the dead forest of blackened, twisted trees, and you’ll find the place we’re staying at opposite the disused diamond mine. We’ll meet there around 10pm and, at the stroke of midnight, start work on the [...]