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Be Still My Unbeating Heart

Love sucks
August 2026
"Every page is infused with queer joy."
— Johanna van Veen,
author of
Blood on Her Tongue


"A clever horror romance that will have
you peeking through your fingers as the bodies pile up."

Tanya Pell, author of Her Wicked Roots
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About
ABOUT

Josh Winning writes popcorn fantasy and horror novels that are full of heart, hope and humour, with a love for 80s movie puppets, 90s slasher flicks and gay Final Girls. He identifies as queer, and believes in the power of positive representation. After growing up in a small Suffolk town and struggling to find LGBTQIA+ characters to relate to, he now writes books filled with queer joy.

 

Josh has worked as a film journalist for Radio Times and Total Film, interviewing the likes of Miss Piggy and Goldie Hawn, and he is co-host of the Charmed Chat podcast. His books include The Shadow GlassBurn the Negative (which was long-listed for a Bram Stoker Award), Heads Will Roll, and Be Still My Unbeating Heart. He lives in East Anglia with his partner and their talking cat Penny.

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BOOKS

The Shadow Glass

Burn the Negative

Heads Will Roll

Be Still My Unbeating Heart

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Haunted House

Burn the Negative

Paperback edition out now!
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"Wow! No one can make us feel so much childhood nostalgia and then so much terror as Josh Winning! Absolutely loved it. This one's a killer."
– CJ Leede, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Maeve Fly
IN THE PRESS

Burn the Negative is a creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book.
Be sure to make the popcorn
and dim the lights.”

PAUL TREMBLAY,

author of A Head Full of Ghosts

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