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Hello and welcome to my site! I’m Bill Davidson, Scottish author of mainly horror and thrillers. I currently have three novels published (The King of Crows, The Orangerie and The Living Must Die) and a collection of ‘strange and beautiful’ short stories – New Gods, Old Monsters.

The King of Crows is also available as a wonderfully narrated audiobook.

My debut novella ‘The Story of Life’ will be published in 2024 and I’ve had around a hundred short stories picked up by good publishers, including Ellen Datlow’s wonderful ‘Best Horror of the Year’ anthology. I’m in Volume 11.

THE KING OF CROWS has been described as a real tour de force horror in the tradition of ‘IT’. It’s a time slip story switching between 1976 and 2016 in and under the streets of the Scottish City of Dundee.

A forgotten underground river, an ages old monster, 70’s teenagers and a modern day policeman with a secret. THE KING OF CROWS is a spine tingler and a great read.

A LoveReading recommended book, their reviewer describes it as “A thrilling psychological time-slip horror. Jumping between the events that befall four university students in 1976 and a police investigation into a shooting on campus in 2016, King of Crows by Bill Davidson weaves horror, folklore and supernatural into this psychological thriller.”

Full review here -https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/24876

The King of Crows is also available as an Audiobook, narrated by wonderful Scottish actor Susan Coyle! The link to the audiobook is below-

The King of Crows Audiobook

‘The Living Must Die’ is a very different zombie story!

When people die, they simply rise again, claiming to be who they were before. They are known as ‘The Returned’ and there are already many of them. Most of the remaining still living believe them to be the exact same friends and relatives who they cherished before they died, that they were merely resurrected by some strange apocalyptic phenomenon.
The truth is nobody knows who, or what, they are and only one thing is certain – every day there are more of them.

THE ORANGERIE might be a psychological thriller or a time-travelling murder mystery. You decide!

It has gained rave reviews and is described as a real page turner! Here is what one reviewer said-

“This book is GRIPPING! 419 pages sped by in two days. I lost sleep staying up late because I HAD TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!” — @adperfectamconsilium

New Gods, Old Monsters is a collection of short stories that have been described as ‘Strange and Beautiful’. It includes ‘A Brief Moment of Rage’ which was picked up by ‘The Veritable Queen of Horror’ Ellen Datlow, for Volume 11 of her Best Horror of the Year Anthology. Reviewers have given it 5 stars and Tim Jeffries says ‘Bill Davidson has a proven gift for imagining nightmarish scenarios and getting underneath his reader’s skin.’

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