About

Welcome to the Gyre.

I started this blog in the spring of 2017, intending it to be a vehicle to publicise my fiction.

Since then, it’s turned into the thing I write. My interests – things you’ll find covered in the Gyre – include literature, landscape and horror. Where these three areas meet I am happiest. The blog’s title is taken from a chapter of Clive Barker‘s Weaveworld.

I was a book reviewer for the now-defunct Horrified Magazine and also for Revenant journal. My fiction has previously appeared in New Writing Scotland, Horrified, New Writing Dundee, Riverrun and Cutting Teeth, among others. I’ve also been shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize.

I also periodically blog on the writing process: what I’m working on (or why I’m not working on it).

Paul

picture credit: Jamie Gorman