Simon Bleaken

Simon Bleaken lives in Wiltshire, England.

His work has appeared in magazines, ezines and podcasts, including Lovecraft’s Disciples; Tales of the Talisman; Dark Dossier; Strange Sorcery; Lovecraftiana; The Horror Zine; Schlock Webzine; Night Land; Weird Fiction Quarterly; Eternal Haunted Summer; and on The NoSleep Podcast, Creepy Podcast and HorrorBabble Originals.

He has also appeared in the anthologies: Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales (2008); Space Horrors: Full-throttle Space Tales #4 (2010); Best Gay Romance (2015); Eldritch Embraces: Putting the Love Back in Lovecraft (2016); Kepler’s Cowboys (2017); Twilight Madhouse Vol. 2 (2017); The Shadow Over Doggerland (2022); The Horror Zine Magazine Summer 2022 (2022); HellBound Books’ Anthology of Science Fiction Vol.1 (2023); From Beyond The Threshold (2023) Eldritch Investigations (2023) House of Haunts (2023) The Horror Zine’s Book of Monster Stories (2024) Witchcraft and Black Magic in the United States (2024) When Shadows Creep (2024) The Whisperer in Valhalla (2024) Hospital of Haunts (2024) Who Let the Gods Out: Divine Wrath (2025) Blink of an Eye (2025) Solaris: Stories and Reflections Inspired by Andrei Tarkowsky's movie (2025) Bio-Mechanic: Visions of Flesh and Machine – Stories and Essays on H.R. Giger (2025) and Codex of Pleasure and Pain: Stories Inspired by Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (2025).

His first collection of short stories: 'A Touch of Silence & Other Tales' was released in 2017, followed by 'The Basement of Dreams & Other Tales' in 2019, 'Within the Flames & Other Stories' in 2021 and 'The Empire of the Moon and Stars & Other Stories' in 2025.

He is a member of the Horror Writers Association; the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society; the Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology; the Egypt Society of Bristol; The Egypt Exploration Society; British Mensa; OBOD, and the Pagan Federation.

He is a huge fan of the Star Trek franchise (Deep Space Nine, especially) and of the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres in general. His favourite authors include H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Stephen King, Robert E. Howard, Terry Pratchett, Dion Fortune, Jonathan Aycliffe, Michael McDowell, Tanith Lee, Liz Williams, and the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.

By day he works for the NHS, but divides his free time (when he should be writing) between reading, combating an ongoing case of Skyrim and Alien Isolation addiction, trying to learn Classical Latin, and even the odd spot of ghost hunting. He is also a full-time slave to two cats.