All are excellent in their own different ways. The four chapbooks that are available currently are Left Behind, The Pennine Tower Restaurant, The Pyramid Spider and Photographs of Boden. The stories I read and make into chapbooks are a mix of new and old tales, and it’s good to think that these very slight tales of mine might contribute to a development which may one day save lives…” The chapbooks serve as a good way of introducing people to my work – without them having to spend a fortune – and raises money for a cause that touches, I suspect, all of us. By the second of the Halloween readings, it was fun to write a story in the shop (in their haunted loft, no less!), and to set it in the shop and pepper it with people from the shop (Hazel and Ken specifically). From there, it sort of got away from me and became a Halloween reading, and I just sort of figured that creating the single story chapbooks was a good way of making some money for a good cause (£1 from each book sold goes to the shop). This Is Horror caught up with Simon, when asked about his motivation behind getting involved with the charity he said, “Well, it’s all the fault of one of the volunteers in the Cancer Research shop in Morecambe who saw my picture in the local paper when Lost Places was released and asked if they could have a book to raffle. The chapbooks accompany a Halloween reading that Simon performs every year in the Cancer Research shop in Morecambe, Lancs.

Quiet Houses author, Simon Kurt Unsworth, has produced four chapbooks of some of his best work in order to raise money for Cancer Research.

Quiet Houses by Simon Kurt Unsworth