JASON ARNOPP: AUTHOR + SCRIPTWRITER
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • Ghoster
    • The Last Days Of Jack Sparks
    • Taken Over By Something Evil...
    • Beast In The Basement
    • A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home
    • American Hoarder
    • Auto Rewind
    • How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else
    • From The Front Lines Of Rock
    • Slipknot
    • Friday The 13th
    • Doctor Who
    • Brandy In The Basement
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Patreon
  • Free Stuff
  • Writing Help
    • My Etsy store for writers
    • Notes for writers. I'll assess your first three chapters.
    • Skype Coaching Sessions
    • Story Planner sheets for writers A4 printables
  • YouTube
    • My YouTube Gear
  • Classic Doctor Who
  • Films
    • Stormhouse
    • The Man Inside
    • Ghost Writer
  • Audio
    • Doctor Who
    • The Sarah Jane Adventures
    • BBC Radio 4
  • Journalism
    • Kerrang!
    • Heat
    • Doctor Who Magazine
  • Scary Letter
  • Interviews With Me
  • Wanted: VHS
  • Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic
  • Contact
Picture
Welcome!

I'm the author of scary novels Ghoster (2019) and The Last Days Of Jack Sparks (2016), plus plenty of Doctor Who stuff across books, audio and journalism. Formerly a rock journalist and Kerrang! editor, I'm also the co-author of Inside Black Mirror with Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.

Now, how can I help you?

​IF YOU'RE A READER:
  • Have a welcome gift! When you sign up to my mailing list, you'll receive a free monthly newsletter with content of interest to readers and writers, PLUS my book American Hoarder, which is only available when you join the list.
  • Want to find something else of mine to read after my novels Ghoster and The Last Days Of Jack Sparks? Check out the full list of my Books on this very site - you may have missed a few! Including A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home - the ground-breaking ghost story set in the home of whoever reads it. 
  • Check out my exclusive VIP cult - sorry, CLUB - over at Patreon! In exchange for the monthly pledge of their choice, my beloved patrons receive physical thank you postcards, exclusive online content, early access to my YouTube videos, are name-checked on those videos and are generally treated like royalty. Check out the support tiers!

IF YOU'RE A WRITER OR OTHER CREATIVE:
  • Subscribe to my Substack blog, Scary Truths Of Writing!
  • Peruse my new Etsy store Great Writing Tools! Be sure to follow the shop on Etsy to hear about future products I release.
  • Self-publishing authors! Take a look at my favourite writers' software of 2022. Publisher Rocket is giving me amazing help with Amazon keywords, categories, ads and more (affiliate link, and I'm proud to be an affiliate for this thing!)
  • Authors! Check out my 'first three chapters' service, which will help you hone your proposal package before sending your work to agents or publishers.
  • Consider booking a Skype consultation chat with me, if you would like professional help with moving forward and reaching your full potential in any creative sphere.

IF YOU LIKE SCARY RETRO STUFF, LIKE CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO AND HORROR MOVIES ROOTED IN THE VHS ERA:
  • Subscribe to my YouTube channel at once! And if you're already subbed up, then you might want to become a channel member to gain perks!
  • Check out my page which gathers together all the Doctor Who The Collection Blu-ray box sets
  • Get £5 off at Arrow Films when you spend £30 or more - just use my special checkout code JASON-R89 (I'll get £5 Arrow credit too!) Shop at Arrow.

IF YOU'RE A ROCK AND METAL FAN:
  • Subscribe to my METAL YouTube channel!
  • You'll get a kick out of From The Front Lines Of Rock, my e-book collection of 30 of the greatest rock interviews I ever wrote for Kerrang!

IF YOU'RE A YOUTUBE CREATOR:
  • Check out my blog on how the YouTube algorithm works, plus my thoughts on the amazing browser app TubeBuddy, which I use on every new video I make. TubeBuddy really helps with video tags, SEO in general and much more! I can offer you a discount on the paid version, so do check out that link. It's an affiliate link, which means I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

IF YOU'RE A JOURNALIST:
  • Take a look at my non-fiction ebook How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else, which packs in everything I know about interviewing people.​

IF YOU'RE SIMPLY DYING TO BUY ME A COFFEE:
  • Oh, go on then. Thanks so much! And in return, I'll offer you a free download of my 2008 flash fiction ghost story Marbles, presented as a PNG image.
Picture
Click the thumbnail above to watch one of the latest videos on my YouTube channel about retro scary stuff...

​I've created my own fictional worlds... 

Picture
Picture
Picture

​I've also had fun playing in other people's...

Doctor Who logo
Friday The 13th logo card
Black Mirror logo card
The Sarah Jane Adventures logo card

Recent (Paranormal) Activity

December 2022
  • Updated the Buy Me A Coffee tab on my Withkoji link-tree to reward you with my flash fiction ghost story Marbles, as a thank you for your kind donation! This very short story, which I wrote back in 2008, is presented as a PNG image. 

October 2022 
  • Was among the authors who appeared at the Virtual Noir At The Bar event. I read part of the exorcism sequence from The Last Days Of Jack Sparks, then returned at the end for a chat about horror. Watch the archived event on YouTube here. 

August 2022
  • Made a new YouTube video as a reaction to the news that Doctor Who Season 2 will be the next Doctor Who The Collection Blu-ray box set. Watch that video here. 

July 2022
  • Five years after it first became available, I've finally published my short story American Hoarder as a Kindle book. Buy it at Amazon UK here and Amazon US here. American Hoarder is also available for free when you sign up to my monthly newsletter for readers, The Necronoppicon. 
  • Also new to Kindle is Taken Over By Something Evil From The TV Set: The History Of Britain's Video Nasties Controversy & Other Scary Journalism. This non-fiction collection gathers highlights from my past life as a horror journalist. 

June 2022
  • Started a new Substack blog for writers called Scary Truths Of Writing. It's free to read on launch, so be sure to subscribe. 
  • Launched YouTube channel memberships for Jason Arnopp's Terrifying House Of Obsession. Support the channel, receive perks!

April 2022
  • Released a horror non-fiction e-book bundle, which gathers highlights from my work in horror journalism. Video nasties! Rob Zombie! The Thing! More! Pay what you want for this bundle. 
  • Launched my Etsy store Great Writing Tools! Be sure to follow the shop on Etsy to hear about future products I release.

January 2022
Added a new page to this site, which gathers together info and buying links for Doctor Who The Collection Blu-ray box sets

February 2021
Launched a second YouTube channel, Possessed By Metal. Guess what it's about, eh?

January 2020
Opened a pop-up signed book shop here.

December 2019
  • My YouTube channel hit 1000 subscribers on New Year's Eve. Achievement unlocked!
  • I announced that my newsletter The Necronoppicon will go monthly in 2020. Quality over quantity, that's my motto.

November 2019
  • Added three pages to this site about my services for creative people.
  • Added a page about my Patreon VIP club.

October 2019
  • Celebrated the publication of my new novel Ghoster with an 86-minute YouTube livestream!

September 2019
  • Unboxed my new novel Ghoster on YouTube.

August 2019
  • Started a Hall Of Fame list of people who are pre-ordering Ghoster - and there's a prize to be won! Check out the Ghoster page to see the list of pre-ordering deities.​

June 2019
  • Launched a second newsletter that aims to boost the motivation and accountability of creative folk. This is Jason Arnopp's Sunday Confession Booth.
  • Started posting blogs on Medium.
  • Added a page on this site dedicated to my forthcoming new novel Ghoster.

May 2019
  • Announced that my newsletter The Necronoppicon will now be delivered every second Sunday
  • Announced that a weekly YouTube video will be uploaded every Sunday, with the occasional mid-week bonus video

April 2019
  • Created a second Instagram account dedicated to images and stories from my time as a rock journalist. (In case you're wondering, my first Instagram account is here!)

March 2019
  • Launched my Amazon UK storefront, in which I curate lists of my fave stuff. Go take a look!

Feb 2019
  • Announced that my next novel is titled Ghoster and will be published via Orbit Books this October.
  • Launched my YouTube channel of writing chat, retro video games, horror VHS and more. Go see!

What Happened To Jack Sparks?

Picture
What really happened to the tragic celebrity journalist and social media star Jack Sparks?

Discover the full story, for the first time since Jack's mysterious death, in my book The Last Days Of Jack Sparks, optioned by Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment.

Selected by Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club. Longlisted for The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize.

" I couldn't put the book down"
- Ron Howard

"A magnificent millennial nightmare" - Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen, V For Vendetta and From Hell. 

"Wow, seriously hard to put down... chilling and utterly immersive" ―M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All The Gifts

"Wittier than the lovechild of Stephen Fry and Charlie Brooker; scarier than watching The Exorcist in an abandoned asylum. Fast, furious, original and most importantly, terrifying." ―Sarah Lotz, author of The Three

Blog: Eleven reasons why you need this book in your life.

For full details, see my Jack Sparks page.
I discuss Jack Sparks on my YouTube channel, Jason Arnopp's Terrifying House Of Obsession. I also play video games, show you my VHS collection and much more...
Download my book American Hoarder FREE for a limited time! Click the image below
Picture

HOME

ABOUT

PATREON

NEWSLETTER

BLOG

Copyright Jason Arnopp © 2015-2022
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • Ghoster
    • The Last Days Of Jack Sparks
    • Taken Over By Something Evil...
    • Beast In The Basement
    • A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home
    • American Hoarder
    • Auto Rewind
    • How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else
    • From The Front Lines Of Rock
    • Slipknot
    • Friday The 13th
    • Doctor Who
    • Brandy In The Basement
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Patreon
  • Free Stuff
  • Writing Help
    • My Etsy store for writers
    • Notes for writers. I'll assess your first three chapters.
    • Skype Coaching Sessions
    • Story Planner sheets for writers A4 printables
  • YouTube
    • My YouTube Gear
  • Classic Doctor Who
  • Films
    • Stormhouse
    • The Man Inside
    • Ghost Writer
  • Audio
    • Doctor Who
    • The Sarah Jane Adventures
    • BBC Radio 4
  • Journalism
    • Kerrang!
    • Heat
    • Doctor Who Magazine
  • Scary Letter
  • Interviews With Me
  • Wanted: VHS
  • Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic
  • Contact