Benjamin Kurt Unsworth

Benjamin Kurt Unsworth is a British Fantasy Award finalist with a degree in Classics and an unhealthy obsession with Doctor Who under belt. He enjoys confusing all and sundry, writing short stories and reviews for various outlets, drinking copious cups of tea, knitting, and buying far too many waistcoats, bow ties, and velvet jackets. His TBR pile threatens to topple over and crush him any day now. His solo collection, Into Wrack and Ruin, is available from Phantasmagoria Magazine, and the collection he co-authored with his father, Uneasy Beginnings, from Black Shuck Books.

BOOK REVIEWS

Paul Finch’s In the Forest of the Night: A Black Shuck Shadows Review

Paul Finch’s In the Forest of the Night gathers four older stories and one new one for Black Shuck Shadows. It moves from folk horror in the Highlands to hard hitting action in its final tale. This is proof that Finch’s horror writing deserves as much credit as his crime fiction.

by Benjamin Kurt Unsworth•25 September 202625 September 2026

BOOK REVIEWS

Laura Mauro Returns: Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers

After years away, Laura Mauro returns with Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers, a short story and a novella steeped in Japanese folklore. Shadowsick sends a decapitated head into spectral flight, while Lovesongs of the Nonmigratory Birds pulls the Yuki-Onna into a bleak, heartfelt tale of two people coming apart. A comeback well worth the wait.

by Benjamin Kurt Unsworth•15 September 202615 September 2026