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Author · Storyteller
Callum Shaw
@callumshaw
Writer of horror with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Callum Shaw writes mainly in horror and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Callum Shaw
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Reading Room
When a rare-book conservator takes a temporary post in a failing private library outside Oxford, she finds that the building’s sealed reading room is not merely closed but watched. The books inside seem to change their contents after midnight, and the staff are quietly determined that no one should ask why the library’s catalogue has pages missing.
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Draft progress
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Publishing
Ebook pricing is one of those oddly moralised decisions in indie publishing. Too low and you risk looking cheap, or t...
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Feedback Wanted
A subplot can be perfectly true to the story and still make readers suspect you lost track of it.
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Worldbuilding
The most convincing libraries and archives are not the ones with dramatic forbidden rooms. It’s the ones where nobody...
16 August 2026