About Laura

Laura Clarke Walker is the author of the Coldharbour series of novels.

A Millennial brought up in South East England, Laura comes from a mixed-heritage background and identifies as Queer.

Laura has been fascinated by ghost stories her entire life, which has influenced her writing immensely. She believes that some of the best fiction in horror and fantasy is that based in a reality we can recognise as our own, especially when psychology plays a vital part in the strangeness the characters and the reader experience.

She also appreciates a strong sense of setting, such as the Lot in ’Salem’s Lot, Shirley Jackson’s Hill House and Blackwood estate, and Manderley in Rebecca. This also extends to the other fiction which inspires her, such as Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock – in her opinion, the more claustrophobic and decayed the environment, the better.

When she’s not writing as Laura Clarke Walker, she works as an English language teacher and has previously been an advertising copywriter and content manager.

She can also be found brushing up on her Italian and German, drinking espressos as dark as night, and running very slowly around her neighbourhood.