About me
Christopher Henderson has haunted south London (UK) in one form or another ever since he was born at the dawn of the 1970s.
Only a few months earlier, human beings had walked on the surface of another world for the first time. Yet on the day Henderson arrived, and on the other side of the same city, modern Londoners were preparing to hunt and stake a vampire in Highgate Cemetery.
It was the start of a weird decade – perhaps the weirdest ever. A technological age steeped in the heady vapours of witchcraft and the occult. A time when ghosts and poltergeists could be serious news items, monsters lurked in every lake and wood, and Flying Saucers flitted through the skies. All that strangeness left its mark on a growing boy.
Henderson's first career in writing (under a different name) concentrated on non-fiction, or at least on the shadowy outer edges of fact. Occasional forays into fiction-writing garnered him a smattering of local and national awards, including one from the British Academy, but for the most part his articles and books, published both traditionally and independently, specialized in folklore and real-life paranormal experiences.
That person is dead.
In this incarnation, Henderson writes fiction, and especially supernatural horror fiction, in defiance of a country, a world, and a modern era he no longer wishes to acknowledge.
He is the author of Artemis One-Zero-Five – 'a really well done, character-driven sci-fi/horror story' (Kendall Reviews) – and writes the Undine and Cross 1970s-set horror thrillers, of which the first, The Horror at Lavender Edge, is 'a terrific and imaginative read' (Home Grown Horror Reviews). Acclaimed horror writer, editor and critic Ramsey Campbell described the finale of Henderson's short story Tourist Traps (published in the Diabolica Britannica charity anthology) as 'a little masterclass of understated dread'.
Henderson is a member of the Horror Writers Association.
Why do I write horror?
This is a question Kendall Reviews likes to ask horror authors, collecting the replies received into a fascinating series of articles. When they asked me, this is how I replied.