Hello all and welcome to my website which focuses on my books, musings and writings.  From this page you should be able to access most of the items on the site as well as gain an Idea of what I am working on at the moment. You can view and purchase my past works and see what the future may hold. I have also included a few short stories, out-takes and thoughts should you wish to read them. There are also links to other stuff if you are interested. My name is Raymond Walker and I am an author. Books, short stories, Novellas and even some rather bad poetry has passed from my pen to paper over the years and I formed this site to tell you of it.
I hope that you consider it worth a look.
Like any author, good bad or indifferent I wish to sell my books and so I will be advertising whatever my next book is on this page. I hope to update it every time a new book is on the horizon.

 Over The Tears of the Fallen.

 "Over The Tears of the fallen" was released on September 2nd this year (2018) 
Under the Atlantic ocean a presence stirs, an old god returns to a semblance of life, it grows, takes form and seeks to be worshiped once more. Three friends, unknowingly in cahoots with other sea gods and provided with an army of dead fishermen try to thwart this possible domination of the seas. The friends, set out to destroy this old god and send it back to the depths from where it came but they have a traitor in their midst, a collaborator and the army of old dead fishermen may not be all they wish them to be. 
A dark thriller from Raymond Walker the author of "She Wept Black Tears" and "The Secret Inside".
 
 
Dark and brooding  "The Tears of the fallen" grips the reader from the outset and propels us through storm tossed seas, fishermen lost to the waves, a strange presence in the deeps to a group of friends trying to find out what is going on. The first volume in a Horror trilogy that you will enjoy immensely, the only bad thing being that we have to wait for the next volume.
Sanjeev Khan. The Book Review. 
 
A paradise for the horror reader. I have remarked before that I believe Raymond Walker to be the latest in a long line of great "Horror" writers. There are echoes of Clive Barker, Stephen King, Lovecraft and Robert E Howard in his works but each remains, uniquely, his own. I suspect that this may be the series that propels him to international stardom. It was always going to happen.    
 Penelope Myskow. Poetry Monthly.













Book Reviews

I am and have always been a reader of books, Now I also write them and many have told me that the reviews that I post here and there of other peoples books give them insight into wither they would like to read them. So I decided to do this blog that will simply post book reviews.

Heart-Shaped Box By Joe Hill.

Heart -Shaped Box by By Joe Hill

I was looking forward to reviewing this Novel. One of the people that follow my reviews elsewhere recommended it to me and I love a good Ghost story. I have always liked the atmosphere, the feeling of creeping dread from a master of the genre. So I looked this up and upon seeing the cover and the back-cover text I knew I had to order it. I am quite a nice person but like many nice people I have a Dark side and my dark side mainly consists of giving bad reviews to half baked horror and ghost stories to wannabee authors that just have not got what it takes.

This seemed to fit the bill. Aging rock star (cliche) buys a ghost over the Internet. I was already preparing my vitriolic reply when it was delivered.

There were a number of reasons for this which included the rather ordinary cover, the aging metal rock god cliche and the fact that it is rare that Americans write good ghost stories (though it has been done on occasion, rather our cousins across the Atlantic shine in horror stories) They miss the nuance, the building tension, the; show a little to gain more, mentality of most European ghost story writers.

I was therefore looking forward to venting my spleen (old Scots for telling everyone how terrible it was) yet I am unable to in this case.

Mr Hill, despite using every cliche in the book (but then in Ghost stories who does not) succeeds in creating from a very silly premise a novel that really does work. It is creepy, at times, it is easy to read and has its moments. 

I still believe that very few American authors have truly grasped the ethos of the Ghost Story but Mr Hill has come close and so I really cannot slate this the way that I thought I would.

In a way that is a recommendation.

Posted 594 weeks ago