Simon Bleaken

Simon Bleaken lives in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, and writes short stories, mostly in the horror, fantasy and Sci-Fi genres.

His work has appeared in magazines, chapbooks and podcasts in the UK, USA and Japan, including The NoSleep Podcast, The HorrorBabble Originals Podcast, Creepy, Lovecraftiana, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Tales of the Talisman, Eternal Haunted Summer, Schlock Webzine and The Horror Zine.

He has also appeared in the anthologies: Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales (2008); Space Horrors: Full-throttle Space Tales #4 (2010); Eldritch Embraces: Putting the Love Back in Lovecraft (2016); Kepler’s Cowboys (2017); Twilight Madhouse Vol. 2 (2017); The Shadow Over Doggerland (2022); HellBound Books’ Anthology of Science Fiction Vol.1 (2023); From Beyond The Threshold (2023); Eldritch Investigations (2023); House of Haunts (2023); Witchcraft and Black Magic in the United States (2024); The Horror Zine’s Book of Monster Stories (2024); When Shadows Creep (2024) Hospital of Haunts (October 2024) The Whisperer in Valhalla (2024) and Solaris: Stories and Reflections Inspired by Andrei Tarkowsky's movie (2025).

His work is also available in the collections: A Touch of Silence and Other Tales (2017), The Basement of Dreams and Other Tales (2019) Within the Flames and Other Stories (2021) and The Empire of the Moon and Stars and Other Stories (2025).