Darkness Visible Publishing
@dvpublishing.bsky.social
Independent publisher specializing in dark, edgy and transgressive fiction and non-fiction, which may lay outside or blur the conventional boundaries of literary categories and genres. We are currently closed to submissions. https://www.dv-publishing.com/
@simonclarkwriting.bsky.social will be attending @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in Brighton. We will have signed copies of the #BloodCrazy Series, Books 1, 2 and 3, plus #TheProtosExperiment novel for sale at special convention rates. If you would like a copy, please seek out Simon.
Going to the World Fantasy Convention this week in Brighton? I'll be moderating the Through the Wringer panel on the Thursday evening, 8-9. It will be great to see you there.
The Protos Experiment, scripted by Brian Avenet-Bradley and myself, wins Best Supernatural Horror Film at Phillip K Dick Festival in NYC. I'm absolutely delighted! Ahead of general release of the film on July 15, do please check out my novel of The Protos Experiment. @dvpublishing.bsky.social
"There is an eerie sense of mystery..." writes Michael Gingold in a great Rue Morgue review of The Protos Experiment, script by Brian Avenet-Bradley and myself. Full review here rue-morgue.com/pkd-festival... @ruemorguemag.bsky.social @dvpublishing.bsky.social
PKD Festival ’25 Movie Review: Indie sci-fi/horror “THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT” has arresting results - Rue Morgue
[The filmmakers’] emphasis remains on mood and tension rather than tech gimmickry…their imagination is expressed in the way they elicit their strange and oppressive world on a very modest budget.
rue-morgue.com
New poster for THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT movie which has just won BEST HORROR FEATURE at ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FEST. More info on the novel: www.dv-publishing.com/the-protos-e... #TheProtosExperiment #SimonClark @simonclarkwriting.bsky.social #dystopian #cyberpunk
The Protos Experiment will screen at the Romford Horror Festival at 1PM, 2nd March, Screen 4 in the Lumiere Cinema. www.romfordhorrorfestival.com For a taste of the film please do visit the Darkness Visible website where you can find a terrific trailer. @dvpublishing.bsky.social
The Protos Experiment - more festival news coming soon. Meanwhile, do please check out the novel of the film. @dvpublishing.bsky.social
UK premiere of The Protos Experiment at Horror-on-Sea film festival, Southend. I'll be there! For more, please check out the interview I did with Blazing Minds @dvpublishing.bsky.social blazingminds.co.uk/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive Horror-on-Sea Film Festival interview with Simon Clark • Blazing Minds
In another exclusive Horror-on-Sea interview, Philip Rogers brings us a Q&A with ‘The Protos Experiment’ Co-Writer Simon Clark
blazingminds.co.uk
The Protos Experiment has a wonderful book trailer. Please check it out here www.dv-publishing.com @dvpublishing.bsky.social
Queer – William Lee’s Second Big Adventure. Here’s our take on the film, including some small misgivings but largely positive. #WilliamBurroughs #Queer #LucaGuadagnino #DanielCraig #NakedLunch open.substack.com/pub/madartis...
Queer – William Lee’s Second Big Adventure
A Look at the New Movie
open.substack.com
"Dark tales of the domestic and demonic - told with wicked glee. Jeffery has a connoisseur's eye for the grotesque and mind-bending."—STEPHEN VOLK, writer of GHOSTWATCH and AFTERLIFE.
In this week's article we're looking at a report about a mushroom 'cult' operating in late 1970s Britain... psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/1977-mushr...
I've been interviewed by Philip Rogers for Blazing Miinds for my part as co-screenplay writer of The Protos Experiment. There are some terrific stills from the film accompanying the interview. t.co/dEXDwMnWQf @dvpublishing.bsky.social
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Jeani Rector@jeanirector.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is the last week to read "Five Devilishly Good Writing Tips" by the best-selling, three-time British Fantasy Award-winner Simon Clark before the next issue replaces the current one. Go here to read the article for free: www.thehorrorzine.com/Special/Simo... #writingcommunity #writers
allenginsberg.org/2024/11/f-n-...
Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 694 - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Queer – Luca Guadagnino‘s film adaptation of William Burroughs‘ novella opened this week in the US (for a limited release) and will open in theaters nationwide December 13 (similarly opening that dat...
allenginsberg.org
Technologically-assisted art before the internet: "Brion Gysin’s whirling Dreamachine No 9 lantern and Marina Apolloni’s Circular Dynamics 6S+S, which resembles a rotating tondo by Bridget Riley, are all the more trippy for their technical simplicity." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be
The singing robots and 8-bit graphics are diverting and sometimes sublime, but there’s a darker story to be told in this show about technologically-assisted art before the internet
theguardian.com
Check out the amazing book trailer for The Protos Experiment. It gives a powerful flavour of the film I scripted with Brian Avenet-Bradley. Dystopian psychological horror set in a prison that is nothing less than hell on Earth. www.dv-publishing.com @dvpublishing.bsky.social
Not long until Xmas! All signed copies in @dvpublishing.bsky.social online shop reduced by 15% for December – DEC15, automatically applied at checkout: #TheProtosExperiment #BloodCrazy Series #SimonClark #Triskaidekaphobia #LiteraryStalker and more! darkness-visible.square.site/s/shop
Thank you to everyone who so generously reviewed/rated the Blood Crazy series. That really does help out me, as the author, and the publisher, @dvpublishing.bsky.social Please do consider rating or reviewing the books if you get chance. It is hugely appreciated.
Been just on 10 years since I gave this talk. It was a condensed version of two longer lectures at the time. Still think it's a pretty good run down of how cinematic depictions of psychedelics in the 60s and 70s effectively mirrored cultural attitudes to the drugs.
Rich Haridy - Psychedelics On Film: An Illustrated Journey
YouTube video by Entheogenesis Australis - Entheo TV
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allenginsberg.org/2024/11/f-n-...
Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 694 - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Queer – Luca Guadagnino‘s film adaptation of William Burroughs‘ novella opened this week in the US (for a limited release) and will open in theaters nationwide December 13 (similarly opening that dat...
allenginsberg.org
Technologically-assisted art before the internet: "Brion Gysin’s whirling Dreamachine No 9 lantern and Marina Apolloni’s Circular Dynamics 6S+S, which resembles a rotating tondo by Bridget Riley, are all the more trippy for their technical simplicity." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be
The singing robots and 8-bit graphics are diverting and sometimes sublime, but there’s a darker story to be told in this show about technologically-assisted art before the internet
theguardian.com
The Blood Crazy series is live in paperback and Kindle @dvpublishing.bsky.social When everyone over the age of nineteen undergoes a profound and inexplicable psychological transmutation, young people must fight to survive amid the ruins of civilization.
The Protos Experiment. My novel of the film has a powerhouse of a book trailer, which also captures some terrifically vivid images from the film. Please check the trailer out here: www.dv-publishing.com @dvpublishing.bsky.social
Born on this day in 1757, William Blake. "The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself." #poetry #art #imagination
New Substack post: "As a result of the successful nitrous oxide experiment, Davy decides to take a larger dose five days later, a dose of 3 quarts (6 pints, 3.4 litres) from a silk bag..." - @petersjostedth.bsky.social psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/first-scie...
Great new customer review of #TheProtosExperiment by #SimonClark @simonclarkwriting.bsky.social Superb horror-sci-fi thrills! www.amazon.co.uk/product-revi...
The Protos Experiment movie will screen at The Horror-on-Sea Film Festival, Southend, Saturday, 18 January. More info on the book, including trailer and review quotes: www.dv-publishing.com/the-protos-e... #TheProtosExperiment #SimonClark @simonclarkwriting.bsky.social #dystopian #cyberpunk
