James Paxton Priestley has a BA (Hons) degree and PGCert in Creative Writing conferred by Aberystwyth University. He is set to undertake his part-time MA in Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Culture, with Portsmouth University from September 2027.
His main interests include weird and New Weird fiction, the spectral, folklore, and horror (especially folk horror).
With a therapy background in Ericksonian Clinical Hypnosis, Cognitive Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, James is also an experienced copyeditor and proofreader. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, and of the International Gothic Association.
[September 2026]
