John B. Ford (born 1963) is a British horror writer and publisher. An introverted youth, he left school at the age of 16. He spent the next sixteen years performing a variety of jobs, including those of a car park attendant and a factory laborer.
He turned to writing on New Year’s Day 1995, after suffering from a massive panic attack. His birth name, used prior to the attack, has been a well-guarded secret.
His fiction focuses on the themes of death and madness and is often written in the atmospheric styles of William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers and M.P. Shiel.
In 1996 he established BJM Press (Big Jolly Man Press), launched Terror Tales magazine, and published a series of chapbooks by such horror writers as Michael Pendragon (Nightscapes, 1999), Paul Bradshaw (Reservoir of Dreams, 2000), Steve Lines (Dreams of a Diseased Mind, 2000), Paul Kane (Alone in the Dark, 2000), Paul Finch (By the Gas Flame Flickering, 2001), David Price (The Evil Eye, 2001) and Quentin S. Crisp (The Nightmare Exhibition, 2001).
His magazine, Terror Tales, has a strong cult following.
In 2001, he and Steve Lines of Rainfall Records collaborated to create Rainfall Records and Books, which continues to publish horror books.
Short Stories and Poetry
The Cemetery Of The Ocean, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, February 1996
The Midnight Caller, Really Quite Cosmic, February 1996
The Rose Of Lamia, Footsteps, April 1996
The Illusion Of Life, Saccade, May 1996
Tongue Tied, Bats And Red Velvet, May 1996
The Sea Of Strangeness, Really Quite Cosmic, July 1996
Long Black Hairy Legs, The Doppelganger Broadsheet—November 1996
Destiny, The Sky's Gone Out, November 1996
In The House Of Chained Souls, Black Planet, November 1996
A Visit To The Gooja Bird, Reader's Feast, December 1996
The Illusion Of Life, Sink Full Of Dishes, December 1996
In The House Of Chained Souls, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, December 1996
The Illusion Of Death, Strix, December 1996
Grondak, Writers' Express, February 1996
Love Hearts, Unreal Dreams, March 1997
The Menace Of Manifold Valley, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, March 1997
Life On Ice, Odyssey, April 1997
The Illusion Of Life, Peninsular, April 1997
Dead Man's Handle, Nasty Piece Of Work, June 1997
The Darkest Of All Healings, Strix, July 1997
The Illusion Of Life, Penny Dreadful, August 1997
The Lucky Man From Atlantis, Flickers `n' Frames, August 1997
The Man Who Drank Death, Visions, August 1997
A Visit To The Gooja Bird, Lateral Moves, August 1997
Strange One Off The Rails, Unreal Dreams—August 1997
The Halloween House, Oktobyr, October 1997
The Curse, Nightchillers, October 1997
The Cemetery Of The Ocean, Unreal Dreams, October 1997
The Song Of Weeping, The Doppelganger Broadsheet—December 1997
Satanic Rose With Crimson Bud, Tales Of The Arabesque And Grotesque, December 1997
The Keeper Of Souls, Strix, December 1997
The Men Who Glowed, Scared To Death, December 1997
The Rose Of Lamia, Penny Dreadful, January 1998
Black Snakes And Rats, Saccade, February 1998
The Superintendent Of Death, Scared To Death, March 1998
Transfiguration, Tales Of The Arabesque And Grotesque, April 1998
The Song Of Weeping, Strix, April 1998
The Sea Of Strangeness, Penny Dreadful, May 1998
The Things In The Weed, Scared To Death, June 1998
The Song Of Weeping, Scared To Death, June 1998
Satanic Rose With Crimson Bud, Scared To Death, June 1998
To Dwell On Tainted Ground, Enigmatic Tales, June 1998
In The House Of Chained Souls, Sackcloth And Ashes, September 1998
A Visit To The Gooja Bird, Strix, September 1998
The Curse, Penny Dreadful, September 1998
My Lady Of Starlight, Writers Express, September 1998
The Rose Of Lamia, Unreal Dreams, September 1998
Destiny, Sierra Heaven, October 1998
The Man With Electric Balls, Tales Of the Grotesque and Arabesque, October 1998
The Church Of Unholiness, Oktobyr, October 1998
My Lady Azia, (Written With Richard Bennet) Terror Tales, December 1998
The Pools Of Sadness, The Dream Zone, December 1998
The Illusion Of Life, Roadworks, Jan 1999
Earth Spirit, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, January 1999
The Island Of The Undead, Strix, January 1999
The Darkest Of All Healings, Penny Dreadful, February 1999
Sweet And Sour Dreams, The Dream Zone—March 1999
The Midnight Caller, Penny Dreadful—June 1999
Dead Things (with Paul Bradshaw), Dead Things Magazine, July 1999
Sex Dwarf And The Disco Dollies, Charnel House, July 1999
The Cycle (with Joe Rattigan), Strix, July 1999
The Island of The Undead, Monomyth, July 1999
A Visit To The Gooja Bird, Songs of Innocence, August 1999
Strange One Off The Rails, Penny Dreadful, October 1999
Croxton's Return (written with Derek M. Fox) Enigmatic Tales, December 1999
The Nightmare Plot (written with Gary Greenwood), The Dream Zone, February 2000
Soul Light, Songs of Innocence, February 2000
The Song Of Weeping, Penny Dreadful, April 2000
Giving You The Eye, Penny Dreadful, April 2000
The Maze For Jaded Brains, Redsine, April 2000
Doctor Calargi's Black Box, Roadworks, May 2000
The Eternally Descending Blade, Dream Zone, June 2000
Earth Spirit—Songs Of Innocence, August 2000
Mrs Drasic's Farewell Party (Written with Eddie M. Angerhuber), Nocturnal Products, 2002
Behind The Painted Face, Shadow Writers #1, October 2002
A Box Full Of Nightmares, Penny Dreadful, April 2005
Within The Sea Of The Dead, BJM Press, 1996
The Derelict Of Death (Written With Simon Clark), BJM Press, 1998
Macabre Delights And Twisted Tales, BJM Press, 1997
Ghouls And Gore And Twisted Terrors, BJM Press, 1998
Death Songs of Carcosa (with Steve Lines), Rainfall Books, April 2006
Dark Shadows On The Moon, story collection, Hive Press, 2001
Tales Of Devilry And Doom, story collection, Rainfall Books, 2001
The Evil Entwines, collaborative stories, Hardcastle Books, 2002
The Haunted Ocean, Novella, Rainfall Books, 2004
