Barry McCann

Barry McCann is an award winning writer, editor, speaker and broadcaster. He has been editor of the art & literature journal, Parnassus, for MENSA International since 1998 and regularly appears on BBC Radio Cumbria as their "Folklore Correspondent", having previously enjoyed a writer in residence slot on sister station, BBC Radio Lancashire. He specialises mainly in features on history and reviews in the arena of popular culture, and as such is a regular contributor to This England magazine and its sister publication Evergreen.

In addition to short stories either in the historical genre, or horror/supernatural. They have featured in anthologies by Magic Cat Press, Dark Gothic Resurrected, The Horror Zine.The Lancashire Evening Post and His Dark Eyes Again, compiled by the Dracula Society, and regularly writes retrospectives on horror films for Scream Magazine. Public appearences have included hosting the Ingrid Pitt - Queen of Horror Festival in Hastings (2012), its follow up masked ball (2013) and talks for various history groups and women's institutes.

He has most recently edited (and contributed to) Shadow of Pendle, an anthology of new stories and poems inspired by the myth of the Pendle Witches and avaialble on Amazon.