New release, Part Three of the ‘Meat’ trilogy 1849. Salome Azul, daughter of a powerful politician, flees Buenos Aires at the height of the Argentinian civil war. In London she enlists the help of Irishman Sean Ryan to open The Nightingale, a high-class brothel and opium den that will be used to entrap and blackmail…
At the end of October I jumped on a train from Glasgow and travelled five hours down to dirty ol’ London and showed up at the House of Lords (the belly of the proverbial Beast), with an invite no less, for the winner’s ceremony of the 2024 ‘Film the House’ UK film competition. Up for…
On October 31st I will be releasing my own translation of Pietro Aretino’s Dialogues. The Dialogues is a 16th-century work of comedy pornography, to my knowledge the first of its kind. Pietro Aretino was, of course, the original pornographer; he produced the world’s first work of commercial pornography with Giulio Romano, an apprentice of Raphael’s….
Hello friends. These days, there’s not much we can’t get online. Before, in the good old days of old, we used to go into the city to our favourite clothing store, go inside, spend a half hour browsing and try some stuff on, and like this we’d find one or two items we liked, then…
After three years, Meat is finally getting the cover update it deserves. I’ve worked with a graphic designer in order to finally get it into shape. Doing your own covers is all well and good, but when you start to approach bookstores and talk to the owners, you soon see that perhaps your covers are…
Welcome to the dystopian nightmare world of Sistema * In the world of the future, corporations can penetrate your mind to torture you subconsciously. * Vathos is a company that specialises in subconscious torture. Its agents are trained to inflict pain on people in their sleep so that they may be manipulated in their day-to-day…
Cyberpunk horror meets dystopian Vathos is a shady company that operates in the shadows. Specializing in penetrating the dreams of target individuals, it works for high-end clients to torture people in their subconscious so that they may be manipulated in waking life. Vangelis Zervas is a Subversion agent for the company, a man who’s not…
Horror goes cyberpunk… Caleb, a young school dropout, robs an apartment one night with his petty-criminal friend, Vince. Finding an expensive and rare piece of computer hardware, he takes it, oblivious to its power and purpose. The boy plugs himself into the new device, unaware that the program inside it is a diabolical piece of…
Gothic horror – The Cottage, cover update On August 1st I released a new gothic horror title, The Cottage. As part of an overhaul I’m updating the covers of all horror novellas to heighten the overall quality of my work. This is a competetive industry, and standards are high. Every aspect of a release must…
Read an excerpt Ultan Banan’s new work of gothic horror, Little Swine, below. Little Swine A devastating work of gothic horror * Little Swine. Born captive and in chains all the aching-long life. Her face wet and her feet blistered and in her the sickness of those who have never been free and the sadness…