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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR THE UNBLEMISHED
‘This book scared the crap out of me . . . In my estimation, Williams does so many
things so well that there’s really not much he can’t do. He is one of the few writers
working in the area of horror and dark fantasy who has my full attention all of the time.
The Unblemished is further evidence of his superlative talent.’
Jeff VanderMeer
‘Williams is so good at what he does that he probably shouldn’t be allowed to do it any
more, for the sake of everyone’s sanity.’
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
‘Williams has built a whole mythology, one that makes the book feel like a cobwebbed
relic from another time. Dust it off, if you like. Just do it at, say, ten in the morning. In
a crowded room. In a military compound.’
Time Out
‘[A] rich, emotionally engaging and extremely fast-paced novel . . . The Unblemished
achieves the admirable, tricky task of interweaving physical horror with spiritual terror
. . . an unapologetic white-knuckle thriller . . .’
William P Simmons, Infinity Plus
‘Conrad Williams takes us on a roller-coaster ride through ancient buried secrets and
body-horror invasion into the pulsing gut of apocalyptic British horror.’
Christopher Fowler
‘ The Unblemished combines a carefully orchestrated accumulation of paranoid detail
reminiscent of Ramsey Campbell with passages of vividly described (and highly graphic)
transformations evocative of early Clive Barker . . .’
Steve Rasnic Tem
‘An apocalyptic nightmare narrated with great vigour, clarity and stylishness. Steel
yourself for some hideous sadism — there’s awe along the way.’
Ramsey Campbell
‘A tour de force. Awe-inspiring in its sheer unsparing, unflinching, grimly horrifying
view. One nasty piece of work.’
Ed Bryant, Locus
FURTHER PRAISE FOR CONRAD WILLIAMS
‘. . . rivals the nastiest imagery of Edgar Allan Poe.’
Maxim
‘A writer of extraordinary talent; stories that shine dark light into the world’s
shadows.’
Michael Marshall Smith
‘The flights of his fiction are dazzling and dangerous.’
Graham Joyce
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‘Incendiary stuff . . . A writer of rare – if warped – imagination.’
John O’Connell, Time Out
‘Conrad Williams does desperate depraved characters like they’ve just been invented, in
authentic London locations that ooze evil and despair. His prose is muscular and
beautiful, his narrative drive locked in fifth gear. Weird fiction just got weirder.
Squeamish? Forget it.’
Nicholas Royle
‘Conrad Williams is one of the unsung heroes of fantastic fiction. Williams has the
unnerving ability of depicting the most appalling human atrocities in achingly lyrical
prose, which has the effect of making them more disturbing still.’
Mark Morris
‘Williams may be in the process of developing a new genre.’
M John Harrison
‘I loved it. His portraits of everyday loneliness are brilliant. Altogether I thought it one
of the finest and most haunting modern spectral novels I’ve read.’
Ramsey Campbell on Head Injuries
‘. . . beautiful prose in this brooding and mysterious tale . . . A first class novel.’
Peter Crowther, Interzone on Head Injuries
‘Lean, compelling prose marks this out as a thriller of real distinction.’
Crime Time on Head Injuries
‘Conrad Williams’ debut novel casts an irresistible spell.’
Andrew Hedgecock, Time Out Net Books on Head Injuries
‘An impressive tour de force that ranges from grimy magic realism to outright horror.’
David Langford, SFX on London Revenant
‘Williams creates existentialist horror with hallucinatory imagery and prose that is as
muscular as it is tender, and laced at times with quite extraordinary beauty.’
Nicholas Royle, City Life (Book of the Week) on London Revenant
‘The book moves from moments of lyricism to moments of utter disgust with little
clashing of gears.’
Roz Kaveney, Time Out on London Revenant
‘ Use Once, Then Destroy is one of the most solid collections of disturbing but engaging
work you’re likely to find on the shelves today.’
Tom Piccirilli
‘Williams is without doubt one of the finest fantasists writing today.’
Tim Lebbon
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‘. . . one of the more inventive and gifted writers of horror and dark fantasy to emerge
in the past decade.’
Tim Pratt, Locus
‘. . . depraved and elegantly ambivalent stories . . . Williams writes with a poetic
brutality that definitely makes him a dark voice to note.’
Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Use Once Then Destroy .
‘. . . a genuine, deeply macabre spellbinder.’
Ray Olson, Booklist on London Revenant
‘A gritty, phantasmagoric tour de force.’
Locus on London Revenant
‘Powerful and tragic. Five out of five stars.’
Horror-Web on London Revenant
‘Pacy, hard-edged, and almost feverish in the intensity with which it moves towards its
blood-soaked and righteous climax.’
The Alien Online on Game
‘Conrad Williams possesses a ruthless imagination and the sensibility of a poet.’
William P Simmons, Infinity Plus on Game
‘A ferocious adventure. It is amazing.’
Cemetery Dance on Game
‘Like Hieronymus Bosch or M John Harrison, he is a painter of infernos, his torments
always briskly inventive, his grotesquerie always delineated with flair; pure visionary
acid. Nearly People is cruelly brilliant, a dagger in the vitals.’
Nick Gevers, Infinity Plus
‘Conrad Williams delivers a tour de force experience with Nearly People . This is a
tremendous piece of writing, destined for great things.’
David Howe, Shivers
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Conrad Williams is the author of two previous novels, Head Injuries
and London Revenant , as well as the novellas Nearly People , Game ,
The Scalding Rooms and Rain , and a collection of his short fiction,
Use Once, Then Destroy .
Born in 1969, he sold his first short story at the age of eighteen and
has gone on to sell over 80 more to a variety of small presses, profes-
sional magazines and critically acclaimed anthologies.
In 1993 he won the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer.
His work has since been shortlisted for awards by the British Fantasy
Society and the International Horror Guild, the latter proclaiming
The Unblemished as Best Novel.
He is married to the writer Rhonda Carrier and they live with their
three sons and a monster Maine Coon cat in Manchester, where
Conrad teaches creative writing at a local university.
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