Tom Johnstone

Tom Johnstone writes horror and mows lawns, but no blades of grass were harmed in the creation of his story for Extremely Weird Splatter. He is the author of a trilogy of hard-boiled occult detective novellas (collected in one volume as In the Friendly Dark) and two collections (Last Stop Wellsbourne and Let Your Hinged Jaw Do the Talking). His short fiction has appeared in various publications, including Black Static, Nightscript, A Ghosts and Scholars Book of Folk Horror, Terror Tales of the Home Counties, Horrific Scribes, Supernatural Tales, Creepypod, Body Shots, Medusa, Gavagai, Nightmare Abbey, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17. His first collaboration with Colleen Anderson appeared in Shadowplays (PS Publishing) and another will appear in the forthcoming Christmas Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree Press). More information at tomjohnstone.wordpress.com.

Tom Johnstone is contributing the story “Debbie Does Delos…?” to Extremely Weird Splatter. See below for a very, very different story in Horrific Scribes!

Johnstone’s answers to the “Extremely Weird Splatter Written in Authors’ Guts” interview questions are in group two.

Other Works

Read Johnstone’s short story “The Herman Condition” in Horrific Scribes.

Description: A woman who has escaped domestic violence receives a starter dough for a “Herman” friendship cake. However, she soon discovers that “Herman” is a very garrulous micro-organism and very free with the unsolicited relationship advice…