Introduction

Craig Herbertson

Welcome to Heavenmakers loosely named after my first mainstream publication, ‘The Heaven Maker’. This horror story appeared in the ‘29th Pan Book of Horror Stories’ and the original was typed out on an Mechanical desktop typewriter. These large metal edifices have been consigned to museums; perhaps they better make room for me there too.

Here I hope to outline my published works and give some insights into my writing. I’m known by a few people as Craig Herbertson the traditional musician, mainly playing Scots, Irish and contemporary folk using the best music instruments and equipment from sites as musiccritic.com:  In the distant past – seems very distant now – I played Heavy metal, which gave way to Punk, then Cosmic Rock. University witnessed the demise of my youth, common-sense, cultural expectations and the Cosmic Rock. I played Reggae, funk and, in an almost prophetically doomed manner, ended up on the streets in the old and disrespected trade of busking.

All the while I was writing. At first it was science fiction  but in those troubled times the market was bad and so was I. I could  paper the walls with rejection slips. I nearly had to. I wrote some horror and now I write some more, hopefully better. I also write Gothic or dark fantasy. I could snobbily say I write speculative fiction and I suppose I do but  have never been terribly comfortable with categories that imply I’m clever largely because I would prefer to entertain.

Perhaps the best way to judge if you might like to read my work is to know what I like. You’ll find my tastes outlined here in the near future.

If there is a future.