J.P. Priestley (James Paxton Priestley) has a BA (Hons) degree in Creative Writing conferred by Aberystwyth University. He is currently studying for his MA in Creative Writing.
His main fiction genre interests include Weird and New Weird fiction, haunting texts, folklore, and horror (especially folk horror).
James has a particular interest in the works of the Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machen (1863-1947), best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction; Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), a creator of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction; and English writer Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951), a broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, considered by many to have been among the most prolific ghost story writers in the genre’s history. Other significant writing influences are the authors Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Susan Hill, Neil Gaiman, and the late Sir Terry Pratchett.
With a therapy background in Ericksonian Clinical Hypnosis, Cognitive Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, James is also an experienced freelance copyeditor and proofreader. Personal pronouns: He/Him.
January, 2025.
