Episode Details

For this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with one of England's great living horror writers Adam L.G. Nevill.

With 13 novels under his belt, several of them award-winning, and three short story collections too, you might expect Adam to have enjoyed rapid success which started early.

Instead, for years Adam worked every night after work to shape his fiction while receiving little-to-no interest from the industry - all until the whims of the world's fiction publishers shifted back towards the macabre...

In a chat with takes in several of Adam's books, including his most famous novel, The Ritual, and what it's like to have your work adapted for screens both big and small, the peculiar Englishness of many of the greatest horror stories, and plenty of discussion about the supernatural, it's a generous, expansive conversation that we very much hope you enjoy.

From prehistoric hyenas to the recorded history of British witchcraft, the folklore of New Zealand to M.R. James, it's a discussion that travels and trespasses on ground both holy and unholy, some of which is in Devon.

So gather in close around the Three Ravens campfire and let's get into it, starting with how loathed supernatural horror fiction was back in the 1990s...

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