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Biography: Ray Newman writes weird fiction, crime fiction, and sometimes things that sit between the two. He grew up in a working class family, mostly on a council estate in Somerset, and that experience continues to define much of his writing. He studied English and American literature at Cambridge and has spent the past 25 years working in various communications, marketing, editorial and design roles, often in and around the UK public sector.

Ray has written several non-fiction books about pubs and beer under the name ‘Ray Bailey’. His first published novel, THE GRAVE DIGGER’S BOY, came out in 2019. Since then, he has self-published several acclaimed collections of ghost stories and weird fiction. He lives in Bristol.

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