Testimony

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His writing career began in 1990 when his first published short story Six Dead Boys in a Very Dark World won Fear magazine's Best New Author award. [4] It attracted the attention of agents and publishers. She says, “Bill’s paintings have never been exhibited, which I feel is sad, as he was an unusually talented artist. During his life he dedicated his time to painting what he described as primitive surreal art. Most of his ideas came from dreams or interpretations of what was happening around him. Each painting holds immense emotion and visual stories. Of course, the church, all churches, has been telling us this for years. Every religion is based on the supernatural, some force inexplicable by science which shapes our lives. But as the philosophers repeatedly tell us, there is no proof of God. You either believe or you don’t. At its core, that is what this book is about: faith. Do you believe? One of my most enduring and successful books is Testimony, my non-fiction account of a family’s truly terrifying experience in an isolated Welsh house. Now there’s a podcast coming from the team behind The Battersea Poltergeist through BBC Sounds.

Love and Death at the End of the World (in The Last Continent, New Tales of Zothique, edited by John Pelan, Shadowlands Press) His journalism has appeared in almost all UK national newspapers as well as several magazines including Empire, Marie Claire, Select, and You. In the US, he has published the critically-acclaimed graphic novel Book of Shadows at Image, and has written several other graphic series. The excellent The Witch Farm podcast by Danny Robins was inspired by Testimony and digs deep into the investigation. It’s one of those rare accounts of the paranormal that has multiple witnesses – I interviewed twenty-four, many of them unconnected, including a previous resident – all of whom experienced something disturbing in that isolated house just outside Brecon in rural Wales. Heol Fanog (c) Elizabeth Udall But I like my freedom. It’s been a long time since I was a wage-slave, working as a journalist on the national papers in London. I’m pretty much unemployable now. But I also like to eat. And, you know, have an amazing time travelling the world and being louche in new locales. So the wise thing is to cast my net wide and put my writing to work in different media. Eggs/baskets etc. Plus numerous short stories including the award-winning "Whisper Lane" in BFS – A Celebration anthology in 2006, and "Who Slays the Gyant, Wounds the Beast" in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (UK) December 2007

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But at its heart, Testimony is a human story, about two people who found themselves at the heart of something they couldn’t explain, trapped in a place they no longer wanted to be, and preyed upon by those allegedly offering help.

Odd stories. Perhaps unbelievable stories. Yet all of them were reported in British newspapers in the first half of 1995. They are just a tiny drop in the tidal wave of weirdness that sweeps over us every day of the year, all over the globe. Somehow, though, we persist in maintaining the illusion that in this age of high technology there can be no such thing as the supernatural. At least that is the view presented by much of the media. When the artist Bill Rich and his wife Liz moved into Heol Fanog with their young family it was supposed to be an idyllic hideaway. Within weeks they were afflicted by a series of inexplicable events, including a massive power drain that took their electricity bills to industrial levels. Negative Burn 2009 (By: Phil Hester,Joe Pruett,Kyle Strahm,Ken Meyer,Jason Caskey,Sam Costello,Michel Fiffe,Bruce McCorkindale,Jeff Limke,Ron Kasman,Kat Roberts,Jody LeHeup,Nancy Dorsner,Pablo Peppinoi) A.M.Heath is proud to be a member of the Association of Authors’ Agents and endorses the principles of best practice in the Association’s Code of Practicea b Roberts, Paul Dale (3 July 2006). "MARK CHADBOURN Writer of Book of Shadows & The Age of Misrule". www.jazmaonline.com . Retrieved 10 December 2007. An immense work of scope and majesty. What appeals about the book is the author’s ability to deal in myth and to apply it to a modern story. . . . The story is gripping, the characters involving, and the main villain is a nasty piece of work.” – The Specusphere

Loved the book, read it in one sitting. Do you plan to do anything more in the paranormal, non fiction genre?Half of all Americans now believe they live or have lived in a haunted house. Researchers attribute a rapidly increasing belief in the supernatural to the rise of paranormal-related media and a decline in religious affiliation. Occasionally, just to keep things interesting, I like to throw a bit of non-fiction into my reading mix. As far as horror fiction is concerned haunted house stories have always been a bit of a favourite of mine so the thought of reading non-fiction that details a genuine haunting seemed like a good fit. Mark Chadbourn is an English fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and horror author with more than a dozen novels (and one non-fiction book) published around the world.

Bill Rich was haunted by terrifying demons. Some that manifested in his isolated home, as I detailed in my non-fiction book Testimony. And some that were firmly embedded in his psyche, as he always admitted. A film script is a palate-cleanser after a novel, and vice versa. Journalism and comics and TV all have their particular joys, and they all complement each other. In the multi-media, cross-platform, constantly mutating 21st century, why would any writer want to limit their storytelling to only one area?I also work extensively as a screenwriter – 26 hours of produced work for the BBC under my belt to date. I’m currently developing several new series for broadcasters around the world, and working on a film script. My near-future SF series, Shadow State, is in the hands of a US network. My book, Testimony, an investigation into a British Amityville, is being developed for UK and international TV. I have a political thriller and a crime series also in development. It’s a long road from here to any of these projects appearing on a screen near you, and they all might fall at any one of the numerous obstacles. But, you know: paid work.