NEIL SPRING
The author of ghost fiction shares his spooky stories with Margaret James
AUTHOR PROFILE
Margaret James
After writing two bestselling novels, The Ghost Hunters and The Watchers, there must have been a lot of pressure on young British writer Neil Spring to come up with something truly amazing for his third book – and he’s done it. In The Lost Village, Neil has indeed written a truly special story set in the real village of Imber on Salisbury Plain.
Who or what inspired Neil to write fiction?
‘As far as we know, I’m the first writer in the family, but many of us are creative, including my mother and my brother,’ he says. ‘There was a prolific Welsh author called Howard Spring who produced a series of bestselling novels from 1934 onwards, and the jury is still out on whether there’s any family connection here.
“I think there’s more evidence for the possibility of the supernatural than against it. I’m often asked if I am scared by the possibility of ghosts or life after death. The answer is not really.”