Simon Kurt Unsworth


Simon Kurt Unsworth is a British writer of supernatural fiction. Unsworth was born in Manchester, England. He grew up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. He was educated at Manchester [Grammar School] and the University of Dundee where he received a Master of Arts degree in Psychology.
Unsworth's first novel is called The Devil's Detective and Unsworth's most recent novel is The Devil's Evidence, a horror novel set in Hell in [popular culture|Hell]. James Lovegrove, in a review for the Financial Times, called the novel "an entertaining Dantean spin on the police procedural...The Devil's Detective is damned good".

Works

Books

At Ease with the Dead: New Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre, Ash-Tree Press, 2007..Creature Feature, Ghostwriter Publications, 2009..The Devil's Detective : A Novel. New York : Doubleday, 2015. The Devil's Evidence : A Novel. New York : Doubleday, 2016.

Collections

Lost Places. Ash-Tree Press, 2010. Quiet Houses. Dark Continents, 2011. Strange Gateways. PS Publishing, 2014. The Martledge Variations. Black Shuck Books, 2018. Uneasy Beginnings. With Simon Kurt Unsworth. Black Shuck Books, 2020.

Awards