Maynard Sims

MAYNARD SIMS – Len Maynard & Mick Sims

The DCI Jack Callum series of crime novels – Three Monkeys, A Dangerous Life, Appetite For Evil, Deadly Ambitions, Sins Of The Fathers and Into The Fire. The Bahamas series of thriller novels - Touching The Sun, Calling Down The Lightning, and Raging Against The Storm. The Department 18 series of supernatural crime novels - Black Cathedral, Night Souls, The Eighth Witch, A Plague Of Echoes, Mother Of Demons and Tashkai Kiss. The crime novels Let Death Begin, Through The Sad Heart, and Falling Apart At The Edges. The supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, Stronghold, and Stillwater. The erotic romance novels, under a pseudonym, The Love Project and The Romance Project.

A screenplay, based on the first two Department 18 books, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. The script, Cold Comfort, won Thriller Short Screenplay 2017.

Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012, and their tenth collection of ghost stories and strange tales – Death’s Sweet Echo – 2016. Several ghost stories have been published on Amazon including Ghost Stories.

Novellas, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, His Other Son, and Convalescence have been published in 2002, 2003, 2013 and 2015 respectively. An erotic romance novella, First Time Love, was 2015, and book 2 in the series, First Time Arousal, 2016. Devil is a 2016 crime novella.

All their stories and novellas have been reprinted in eight uniform volumes through The Maynard Sims Library in 2014.

They worked as editors on the nine volumes of Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written essays. They still do commissioned editing projects, most recently Dead Water, and the Capital Crimes anthology for the ITW. They do ghost writing commissions.

Email contact can be made at ms@micksims.f9.co.uk