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Author of HATER, AUTUMN, and SHADOWLOCKED.

"A head-spinning thrill ride... HATER will haunt you long after you read the last page..." ―GUILLERMO DEL TORO

"As imaginative as Barker, as compulsory as King, and as addictive as Palahniuk." —SCREAM MAGAZINE

08/08/2025

A book recommendation to end the week.

https://www.davidmoody.net/2025/08/08/tender-is-the-flesh/

07/08/2025

My office assistant Sydney and I recommend that everyone should watch THREADS at least once. This is a timely reminder to do so, given the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing yesterday, and the current fragile/volatile geopolitical situation.

I've just discovered that the film is streaming on TUBI in the US, and here in the UK it's on BBC iPlayer for the next couple of months. So in those two regions at least, you now have no excuse.

It's genuinely one of the important and unsettling films ever made, if not THE most important and unsettling. It's 40 years since I first saw it, and I'm still haunted by it.

05/08/2025

33 chapters of my novel KEMBERTON are now available for subscribers to my free mailing list. 4 more chapters will be added later this week, with the remaining instalments being posted between now and Christmas.

It's a sad and gruesome story that goes in lots of wild directions you won't expect. Join my mailing list for immediate access.

https://www.davidmoody.net/signup/

04/08/2025

Your regular reminder that AUTUMN: DAWN is available as a free eBook download from all retailers.

Tell your friends! Spread the Infection!

https://books2read.com/autumndawn

01/08/2025

Have you seen BRING HER BACK yet? I thought it was a great film - gruesome, stylish and smart. My thoughts are at the link below. What did you think of it?

https://www.davidmoody.net/2025/08/01/bring-her-back/

30/07/2025

The forgotten joys of the photo novel.

Many, many years ago, before the days of home video, long before DVDs and Blurays had been invented, in a time when video streaming would have seemed like witchcraft, young genre fans like my brother and I needed to find other ways of getting our regular fix of monsters and gore. Here in the UK, magazines like STARBURST, FANGORIA, and STARLOG could only be found intermittently and on certain newsagent’s shelves, but the one place that never let us down was the bookstore.

https://www.davidmoody.net/2025/07/30/the-dark-ages/

28/07/2025

Check me out!

Who’d have thought sharing horror and dystopian nonsense would earn me a pretty little butterfly badge from Facebook! It’s an undoubted career highlight 😬

🎉 I earned the emerging talent badge this week, recognising me for creating engaging content that sparks an interest among my fans!

25/07/2025

This is the stunning Freemason's Grand Lodge in Dublin. I spoke at an event there in 2016, and I remember getting quite animated about why people should pay more attention to writers of speculative fiction. Case in point - Sinclair Lewis's prophetic 1935 book, IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE.

https://www.davidmoody.net/2025/07/25/it-cant-happen-here/

24/07/2025

I'm often asked what's the best order for reading the HATER books? Here's a handy video explainer.

23/07/2025

The world is dead

Two months ago, billions of people were killed by a deadly germ. Days later, they rose again in massive numbers. Since then, cities worldwide have become corpse-filled, rat-infested, germ-choked hellholes.

A group of people are trapped in central London, hopelessly outnumbered by the dead.

They hear rumors of a safe haven in the north—a self-sufficient community where people from across the country have gathered to try and rebuild their lives. But the decaying ruins of the capital are vast and sprawling, and they’re going to need an army to get away from this place.

There are other people here, waiting in the shadows to be found. Can enough of them band together to make a difference, or has the country—maybe even the entire world—already been lost to the dead?

This special edition contains all three novels in the series (Autumn: Dawn, Autumn: Inferno, and Autumn: Exodus) along with seven brand new short stories.

eBook: https://amzn.to/3GSFLD2

Print: https://www.infectedbooks.co.uk/shop/autumn-the-london-trilogy-omnibus-hardcover-edition/

Audio: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CL1CMTLX/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-370630&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_370630_rh_us

22/07/2025

New Letterboxd user seeks like-minded film fans to follow.

https://letterboxd.com/davidmoody/

21/07/2025

I thought Netflix's ADOLESCENCE was one of the strongest dramas I've seen in a long time, not least because of its use of the single take format. Having recently written a real time, 'one shot' novel (DIRTY DAY), I've thought a lot about how the specific restrictions of that approach only suits certain types of story. In the case of Adolescence, the inescapable intensity of the format was used to great effect. What I hadn't appreciated was just how much of an undertaking making the series in this way was.

On Saturday I attended a fascinating event at the MAC in Birmingham, where Matt Lewis (DoP), Sean Beasley (Focus Puller), Lee Brown (Camera Operator), Adam Farquharson (Clapper Loader / VND), and Natasha Booluck (Camera Trainee) dissected key scenes and talked about how the series was created. I've daydreamed about a one shot Dirty Day movie, but after listening to the panel, I can't imagine that'll ever happen. The logistics would be insane (not to mention the fact I foolishly set the book in the chaos of central London).

But my biggest takeaway from the panel - which was part of the Birmingham's Forward Film & Television Festival - was the sheer amount of coordination between cast and crew that was necessary to make Adolescence a success. It's remarkable.

I hear that Warp Films (one the of the co-producers) has a remake of THREADS lined up. Jesus. With a team like this behind the camera, that has the potential to be something very special - and utterly terrifying - indeed.

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