Books
Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror
In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters in horror cinema.
Available everywhere, published by Telos
Science Fiction Novella. Dream analyst Ursula is experiencing painful visions of an unknown desert. Is her therapist trying to unveil the truth or hide it?
Available everywhere, published by Roundfire
Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History
The first walking guide to London’s horror films, this guide consists of eight 2-hour walks and a dozen one-off locations featured in horror films ranging from Universal’s Dracula through lesser-known gems like Gorgo and Edge of Sanity, and up to Last Night in Soho. Death Lines made Stewart Lee’s favourite book list of 2024 and was dubbed “The A to Z horror fans need” by Kim Newman.
Available everywhere, published by Strange Attractor Press
Films
A brutal and intimate portrait of a couple consumed by a woman’s dire need to preserve her terminally ill husband. “Definitely not for the squeamish” – The Dark Side Magazine
- Best Horror film, Berlin Indie Film Festival
- Nominated “Best Actress”, “Best Atmosphere”, and “Best Original Concept”, Independent Horror Movie Awards
A collaboration between the free-wheeling animation of Sunrise Giants (Wyvern Hill), Lauren’s writing, and the musical score of Craigus Barry (the Pocket Film of Superstitions), Robot Armadillo is a visual and auditory carnival exploring the seemingly simple question: Why don’t they make Robot Armadillos? You can watch it using the link above, Large Potato, Small Potato Productions.
- “It deserved an award so we created one” award, The Absurd Film Festival, Dec 2024.
- Semi-finalist, Best Animation, Area 51 Film Festival 2025
- Semi-finalist, Best Short, FilmHaus festival 2025
- Best Sound, Pompeywood Festival, 2025
Videoshop Tales of Terror II: Lust and Revenge (Invasion at Studio 69 segment)
Inspired by 50s B-movies and The Twilight Zone, “Invasion at Studio 69” is a sci-fi comedy short set in the unlikeliest of places – a porn set. Dir. Alex Churchyard and Tony Mardon.
VSToT II premiered at the Horror-On-Sea 18 January 2025 and has won multiple awards including “Best UK Feature Film” at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival
Contributing Writer, The Witches of the Sands (Coming Soon)
Feature Length Horror. Contributed dialogue and scenes under the head writer, Tony Mardon, who is also the director and producer. It’s the surreal experience of director, Tony, as he attempts to finish his film, ‘The Witches of the Sands’. As the movie takes shape, so do Tony’s demons…until reality and the world of the Witches of the Sands combine. Dir. Tony Mardon
Coming Winter 2026
Other Writing
“Dark Academia” in The Dark Side Magazine issue 274
“The Sorcerers” in Mods & Shockers: British Horror of the 1960s by We Belong Dead, 2025.
Sleeve description for an LP: “A Portmanteau of Horrors” by Drew Mulholland
“An Itch” It Came From The Darkness Too (Red Cape Publishing) 2023
“The Story of Violet Dawes” Coffin Bell Journal vol 6 issue 4 (2023)
“Error 404” File Not Found (Nat 1 Press, 2023); Distinction in the 2022 Spectrum Awards
“Needle” Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom (Redwood Press)
“Exclusive” Audience Askew vol. 1 issue 2 (2022)
“Exhibition” Listen! (NineStar Press, 2022)
“Confession” Bloody Good Horror (Hellbound Books)
“North London and the Horror Film”. Horrified
“Chelsea’s Most Haunted Places” Sloane Street
“Digging Through Horror on the London Underground“. Horrified
“The Thames: Uncertain Depths in Horror Cinema“. Horrified
“The Fog” Duplicitous: A WriteHive Compilation (Inked in Gray); Shortlisted, WriteHive Horror Fiction Prize.
“Smudge” The Chamber Magazine
“Toujours” BFS Horizons #12
“The Living and Dead Body in Foucault’s Clinical Gaze” in The Body In Theory: Essays After Lacan and Foucault.
“Cookie in Her Casket as a Response to the Medical Death” in And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning, and the Bereaved
“Beauty and Alienation in Medical Photography”. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine
“Review: Anatomy of the Medical Image“ Medical History Vol 66 Issue 2
“Family Expressions of Pain in Postmortem Portraiture”. Studies in Visual Arts and Communication: An International Journal
“The Faceless Portrait: Anonymity and Identity in Andres Serrano’s The Morgue”. HARTS & Minds
“Family Ties: Reframing Memory”. Photomonitor
Lauren is a member of Society of Authors and the Horror Writers Association
