The Spectral Times and Up-date

Today (February 21st) is a good day because today The Spectral Times unleashed their new issue - Issue Three Why is this so utterly making my day - well it includes my piece on the Ghost of Charlotte Dymond, whose murder I'm currently re-investigating. As some of you may know The Spectral Times published my review on The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark in issue Two.

The cover to issue two

The piece on Charlotte Dymond is hopefully the first in a series of articles on Haunted Cornwall :-)

The cover to issue three.

You can read issue Three here by following this link: http://calameo.com/read/0029385633924702953cb?authid=4TW8OCVTsV92

In my previous post I stated that my piece on The Raven would be included in issue 12 of We Belong Dead, but sadly it has now been moved to issue 13. This is cool because it gives me more time to work on Dracula's Daughter, which is taking longer than expected to research and write. I still have something in issue 12, so my 'run' is unbroken. You can get previous issue + issue 12 via links in this add:
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January has been a very busy month for me in terms of writing, as I've said about in a previous blog and things look set to become even more exciting.

Firstly, I have been asked to contribute a regular column for The Spectral Times which I am really excited about. The first piece should be The Body on the Moor: The Ghost of Charlotte Dymond. That will (hopefully) be in issue three. I have ideas for the next three/four pieces lined up. I am still hard at work on my re-investigation into the murder of Charlotte Dymond, but have had to pause as there is information that I need to obtain and that may require a trip to London!

Here is a link to issue two of The Spectral Times that features my review of The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark: http://en.calameo.com/read/002938563b769d352896d

Hot off the press, so to speak is an interview of myself by author BrianMcKinley:
http://brianpatrickmckinley.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/interview-with-matthew-banks/

This is the second in a series of interviews by Brian with authors that have contributed to the Fresh Blood Anthology

I'm really excited about this as this is the second interview I have done this year with regards to my writing and though both are similar in theme, both add something to my creative process. Also due out any time now is issue Twelve of We Belong Dead which features my piece on Universal's 1935 romp 'The Raven'. Here is the cover

There will be more news as it comes. And don't forget that you can follow me on Twitter @thedoctor67

No Traveler Returns - The Lost Years of Bela Lugosi

Hot off the press (so to speak) is a brand new trailer that I have compiled for Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger's book on Bela Lugosi: No Traveler Returns: The Lost Years of Bela Lugosi 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Czqke3tcY  Please Watch the trailer