Lauren Jane Barnett is a horror writer, horror film fan, podcast host, and occasional horror walking guide living in London.
She's been watching horror movies most of her life, and while doing her Ph.D. she hunted around London for a walking tour of the city’s horror movies, but couldn’t find one. In the end, she did it herself. These walks – and a ride through the Underground – turned into her book, Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History.Along the way, She's also written several horror stories. Her award winning work work has appeared or is forthcoming in BFS Horizons, Horrified Magazine, and the anthologies Tales of Fear, Superstition and Doom, File 404, Bloody Good Horror, LISTEN. She tends toward psychological horror, focused on the experience of fear and how it changes us.When Covid struck, Lauren turned her love of London’s horror films into a podcast, and three years later The London Horror Movie Club has been joined by her brother Chris, and they have been so lucky to nterview people involved in British indie horror cinema!

She's always happy to engage and collaborate with institutions and have done so with everything from Case Notes, the WI, and The PTI, so if you would like to get in touch email her at info@laurenjanebarnett.com

She is the proud author of Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History, the first walking guide to London’s role in the evolution of horror cinema, which Kim Newman called “the London A to Z horror fans need”. Her short horror fiction and non-fiction work in magazines including BFS Horizons, Horrified, Audience Askew and anthologies including Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom, LISTEN, and Bloody Good Horror including the award-winning and shortlisted stories “The Fog” and “Error 404”.