October is always a rather wonderful month; a month of bonfires and falling leaves and shops crammed full of Halloween novelties...but this October is already extra-special. It started with Fantasycon 2017 in Peterborough, with a series of endless and fascinating chats with fellow horror folk, and it will end with the Ireland Horror Expo, which I'll be working on with horror -royalty like Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman and David Skal. But there's ALSO the launch of my first nove