Dominic Selwood

Dominic Selwood is the best-selling author of the crypto-thriller The Sword of Moses (voted one of the top five religious thrillers of all time by BestThrillers.com). He is a historian, and writes history articles and blogs for the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper. His website is www.dominicselwood.com. His journalism is at www.dominicselwood.com/journalism.-oOo-I have just published two new ghost stories: The Voivod and Suffer the Children. I have loved the ghost/horror stories of M R James since childhood. They have a wonderfully 'old England' feel to them: a world of quiet bookishness in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The protagonists explore libraries in country houses or go on solitary holidays, only for the calm to be shattered by awful events or discoveries. M R James was a medieval historian (provost of King's College, Cambridge and then Eton College) and his research and life in those ancient settings give his spooky tales a unique and calm antiquarian feel, quite at odds with the terrible things which then happen. They are timeless tales that I have read again and again, so it seemed like a fun idea to try and recreate his extraordinary world of gentility and terror.I am now focusing back on the next novel.