Christ, this is the first I've heard of this. You have every reason to be extremely upset. I didn't even know him and only saw him talk at the Halifax ghost story festival last year, and I'm very dismayed indeed.
This is a serious loss to literature, and with things as they are now in the UK, we needed Joel Lane more than ever. He always knew the score politically and wrote about stuff that many other horror writers just wouldn't touch, like homelessness, council corruption, society's fear of "feral" children and the abyssal void caused by the removal of Britains industries in the 80s and 90s. Every subject I'm angry about politically, he knew how to encapsulate perfectly in just a few words, and in a way that never took over the story or prevented it from being good scary fun.
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This is a serious loss to literature, and with things as they are now in the UK, we needed Joel Lane more than ever. He always knew the score politically and wrote about stuff that many other horror writers just wouldn't touch, like homelessness, council corruption, society's fear of "feral" children and the abyssal void caused by the removal of Britains industries in the 80s and 90s. Every subject I'm angry about politically, he knew how to encapsulate perfectly in just a few words, and in a way that never took over the story or prevented it from being good scary fun.
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