Kris Ashton

It’s a flying start to 2021 for yours truly.

On February 23, The Dread Machine will feature my haunting tale ‘The Old Fisherman’s Track’ on its website. The idea came to me after seeing a click-bait story about a ‘haunted treehouse’ that proved to be no such thing, but I liked the notion so much I thought I’d take a crack at writing one myself.

Closer to home, Aurealis #137 (due in March I think?) will publish an essay of mine, ‘The Curious Reclassification of Peter Benchley’s Jaws‘. What started out as an analysis of Benchley’s most famed novel transmogrified into a discussion of genre. Why on earth is this grisly book now referred to as a thriller?