Peter Laws

Peter Laws is an author, journalist, film critic, podcaster and public speaker. He is the creator of the Creepy Cove Community Church Podcast, and also the Matt Hunter novel series (crime fiction with threads of the supernatural). The first of which, 'Purged', was released in February 2017, followed by 'Unleashed' in 2018 and 'Severed' in 2019. The fourth, 'Possessed' was published in February 2020.

He writes a monthly column for the print magazine The Fortean Times. He writes and hosts two popular non-fiction podcasts Frightful & Our Curious Past (formerly known as Hometown History: Europe).

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His acclaimed non-fiction book The Frighteners seeks to explain (and defend) why humans have a morbid streak.

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He regularly speaks and preaches at churches and events, and also provides occasional writing consultancy work.

His literary agent is Joanna Swainson of Hardman and Swainson.