meet the author

Dark Masquerade marks the chilling debut of a new voice in supernatural and gothic horror. A lifelong student of myth, language and the macabre, Slater weaves a tale steeped in Victorian intrigue and shadowed secrets. With influences ranging from dark fantasy to horror and the ‘man remade’, his writing explores the arcane and the dreadful with a dry, grisly wit. A traveller, linguist and obsessive thinker, Slater brings global experience and a haunted imagination to the page, inviting readers into a world where nothing is ever quite as it seems.

With an enduring fascination for arcane mythologies, dark histories and the liminal spaces between the seen and unseen, Slater’s work summons the esoteric and the dreadful in equal measure. A master of language and symbol, he weaves tales where secret orders stir, ancient evils awaken and masks conceal more than just faces. 

The author has worked across strange and varied fields, yet always returns to the shadows of his imagination – guided, perhaps, by darker muses. Hampered (or helped) by a macabre sense of humour, he writes with a deep awareness that the line between reality and the occult is perilously thin.