Simon Kurt Unsworth (born 1972) is a British writer of supernatural fiction. Unsworth was born in Manchester, England. He grew up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Dundee where he received a Master of Arts degree in Psychology (Hons).
Unsworth's first novel is called The Devil's Detective and Unsworth's most recent novel is The Devil's Evidence, a horror novel set in Hell.‘The Devil’s Detective’, by Simon Kurt Unsworth Financial Times, 20 February 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015. James Lovegrove, in a review for the Financial Times, called the novel "an entertaining Dantean spin on the police procedural...The Devil's Detective is damned good".
Works
Books At Ease with the Dead: New Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre, (with others) Ash-Tree Press, 2007. . Creature Feature (with Guy N. Smith and William Meikle), Ghostwriter Publications, 2009. . The Devil's Detective : A Novel. New York : Doubleday, 2015. The Devil's Evidence : A Novel. New York : Doubleday, 2016.
Collections Lost Places. Ash-Tree Press, 2010. Quiet Houses. Dark Continents, 2011. Strange Gateways. PS Publishing, 2014. The Martledge Variations. Black Shuck Books, 2018. Uneasy Beginnings. With Simon Kurt Unsworth. Black Shuck Books, 2020.
Awards 2008 - World Fantasy Award nomination for best short story for "The Church on the Island"
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