Simon Bestwick
Simon Bestwick is an English author of British contemporary horror.
Biography
Bestwick attended the University of Salford which he graduated from in 1996 with a 2:1 degree in Media and Performance.Writer Ramsey Campbell has described Bestwick, along with Gary McMahon, Alison Littlewood and Joel Lane, as part of a class of contemporary British writers developing a “consciously political form of horror fiction, using the genre to examine and symbolise Thatcher’s Britain and the country’s subsequent decades”.
His short stories have been reprinted in Best Horror of the Year #1 'The Narrows', Best Horror of the Year #4 'Dermot' and 'The Moraine', Best British Fantasy 2013 'Dermot', and his short story ‘Below’ is due to be reprinted in Best Horror of the Year # 12.
Awards and honours
- 2009 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best novella for “The Narrows”
- 2012 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best short story for “Dermot”
- 2019 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best horror novel for “Wolf's Hill”
- 2019 – British Fantasy Award nomination for best novella for “Breakwater”