About

Born and raised in Birmingham, England, C.J. Lines began writing horror stories from an early age. At nine years old, his headmaster sent him to a child psychologist, having confiscated and read a notebook of said stories. Unexpected by all, the psychologist assessed the young C.J. as a “bright, normal and funny young lad” and, since no one ever figured out where the bodies were buried, the boy’s writing career was allowed to blossom.

His first novel, “Filth Kiss”, was published by Hadesgate Publications in November 2007 and has been described by splatterpunk author Garry Charles as being “horrifically disgusting”. Gorezone Magazine had to “step away from the insanity of the written word”, Rue Morgue Magazine said the writing “absolutely seethes with intense, visceral gore and morbid sexuality” but, sadly, C.J.’s old headmaster was unavailable for comment.

Since then, he has written film reviews for various U.K. magazines and a number of short stories in several publications. These include the award-winning “Duplicity” in Guy N. Smith’s Graveyard Rendezvous magazine and “Lambkin” in the Hadesgate “Tiny Terrors” anthology. More recently, his story “Emmeline” appeared in Darkscribe’s “Unspeakable Horror From The Shadows of the Closet” which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology 2008. C.J. has also branched out into poetry, with his tongue-in-cheek “Love in the Time of Zombification” appearing in Coscom Entertainment’s “Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes” anthology.

He currently lives in rural Hertfordshire where he is working on new material and preparing for Christmas (no matter which month you’re reading this in).