Lucas Radcliffe is a British-born writer of horror and weird fiction and a former night-shift orderly. Raised in Salford, he moved to the New England coast in his twenties, where fishing harbors and fog-bound islands seeped into his work. He studied folklore at the University of Manchester and holds an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, grounding his stories in ballads, shorelore, and the uneasy rituals of ordinary life.
His short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, The Dark, and numerous small-press anthologies, and he edits the micropress chapbook series Brine. Radcliffe's interests range across folk horror, maritime gothic, and intimate supernatural terror, with a focus on working-class lives and the uncanny textures of place. He is the author of In the Cradle of Nightmares and Last Rites for Ólafur. He lives in Portland, Maine, where he teaches community workshops on uncanny literature and place-based horror, and walks a rescue greyhound named Lumen along the Eastern Prom.
