C L Raven are horror writing, ghost hunting, poledancing, burlesque dancing mistresses of the macabre. Because Bringers of Nightmares isn't a recognised job title.They've been published writers since 2008, however because they're not making Stephen King's level of money, are consistently viewed as a 'raging disappointment.' They actually hate coffee. However, their love for Red Bull is well known and the more they drink, the nicer they are. And hopefully one day they will make enough money to... more

We've been super busy since lockdown restrictions eased. We now teach polefit and aerial hoop six evenings a week, and on Saturday's we're still doing The Graveyard Shift on Vitalize Radio 7-9 p.m. Our latest issue of When In Chrome magazine is now out and we're now working on issue 8. We're also back to filming and uploading videos to our Pole Vault YouTube. Writing wise, we have a story in The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, about chocolate cream... more

Not a lot, to be honest. In October we ran away to join the circus. Well, kinda. We did a 6 week Intro to Circus course. Absolutely loved it. Except for the flying trapeze. That can fuck right off! We were invited to write a story based on the cover art of Time Bomb Comics 2, by Steve Tanner, which we did. Mostly we've been working on When In Chrome Magazine and writing true crime articles. We have a few due to be published this year. So we decided to write a true crime book. Except the... more

You'd think lockdown would have given us the time to write several books, keep updating our blogs and websites and writes countless articles, earning us enough money to buy...chips. But no. Because Fate is a cruel mistress. So cruel, in fact, that she struck Cat down with constant migraines which began in April. There are three triggers to these migraines: lack of sleep; sunlight; and the laptop screen. Perversely, the laptop screen triggers the worst migraines. Looking at it for only a... more

Just when we thought there couldn't be any further disruptions to releasing our poledancing magazine, Covid19 swooped in and shut the shops we'd hoped to distribute to. When we wrote our SWOT analysis and business plan for the magazine and our studio, we failed to foresee a global pandemic as a threat. We have been forced to temporarily close our shiny new pole studio, but it means we have reverted back to being full-time writers.We have started a new novel, The Eden Project, which is... more

It's March. MARCH. How the hell did this happen? January lasted for about ten years, February came, we turned 37 and boom, now it's March. We have a few stories being released right now. Three in fact. Our horror erotica, Touch of Death, was released in the Deranged anthology. Our story, Dying Art, about a man who fully employs the zero waste policy when making furniture, is being released in Laughing at Shadows anthology and our true crime article, About a Boy, about teenage Welsh... more