Ian Hunter

My writing includes the children’s novels The Dark Knight’s Blade (inspired by my love of the film A Chinese Ghost Story), Lipstick Lass (inspired by my son’s love of the Captain Underpants books, and my daughter’s love of The Powerpuff Girls), The Magic Mousehole, and Santa Claus is Missing. Sequels to The Dark Knight’s Blade, Lipstick Lass and The Magic Mousehole are in the pipeline, but I’m not exactly sure where those pipelines end right at the moment.

Over the years, my short stories and poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, Best British Horror, The Ultimate Dragon, Star*Line, Postscripts, Gallus, 30 Years of Rain and many other magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA, and Canada.

I have been a member of many local writers’ groups over the years, and I am currently a member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle (GSFWC) and Bigger Writers Association.

Recently, my writing has appeared in places like “Viridine Literary”, “Star*Line”, “TV-63”, and I also became a “Horrific Scribe” for my three poems “Something Down the Dark Alley Looks Like Elvis”, “Ghosts from a Christmas Carol”, and “When We Were Dressed as a Pantomime Horse”. 2025 also saw three new eBooks – two poetry chapbooks “Failures of the Clown Prosecution Service” and “The Routine After the End of the World”; and the first of a series of novellas set in The East Nuked of Fyffe called “The Monster of Gorgon”. Another Fyffe novella - "The Deid City" will be out later in 2026, as will "Haverin" the 40th anniversary anthology from the GSFWC.