John B. Ford

John B. Ford (born 1963) is a British horror writer and publisher. An introverted youth, he left school at the age of 16. He spent the next sixteen years performing a variety of jobs, including those of a car park attendant and a factory laborer.

He turned to writing on New Year’s Day 1995, after suffering from a massive panic attack. His birth name, used prior to the attack, has been a well-guarded secret.

His fiction focuses on the themes of death and madness and is often written in the atmospheric styles of William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers and M.P. Shiel.

In 1996 he established BJM Press (Big Jolly Man Press), launched Terror Tales magazine, and published a series of chapbooks by such horror writers as Michael Pendragon (Nightscapes, 1999), Paul Bradshaw (Reservoir of Dreams, 2000), Steve Lines (Dreams of a Diseased Mind, 2000), Paul Kane (Alone in the Dark, 2000), Paul Finch (By the Gas Flame Flickering, 2001), David Price (The Evil Eye, 2001) and Quentin S. Crisp (The Nightmare Exhibition, 2001).

His magazine, Terror Tales, has a strong cult following.

In 2001, he and Steve Lines of Rainfall Records collaborated to create Rainfall Records and Books, which continues to publish horror books.[1]

Published works

Short Stories and Poetry

Chapbooks

Within The Sea Of The Dead, BJM Press, 1996
The Derelict Of Death (Written With Simon Clark), BJM Press, 1998
Macabre Delights And Twisted Tales, BJM Press, 1997
Ghouls And Gore And Twisted Terrors, BJM Press, 1998
Death Songs of Carcosa (with Steve Lines), Rainfall Books, April 2006

Books

Dark Shadows On The Moon, story collection, Hive Press, 2001
Tales Of Devilry And Doom, story collection, Rainfall Books, 2001
The Evil Entwines, collaborative stories, Hardcastle Books, 2002
The Haunted Ocean, Novella, Rainfall Books, 2004

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