Ron Weighell (1950–2020) was a British writer of fiction in the supernatural, fantasy and horror genre, whose work was published in the U.K., the U.S.A., Canada, Germany, Ireland, Romania, Finland, Belgium and Mexico.
[7] Three further stories, "The Four Strengths of Shadow", "The Chapel of Infernal Devotion", and "Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon" appeared in the annual British publication Best New Horror, volumes 26 (2015), 27 (2016), and 31 (2021) respectively.
While his protagonists are typically scholars, archaeologists, and bibliophiles, much of his fiction moves beyond traditional antiquarian ghost stories to explore both wonder and terror in the presence of supernatural forces.
Weighell's first published short story, "Bishop Asgarth's Chantry," was in 1986 in the small press Ghosts and Scholars magazine,[9] devoted to the M. R. James tradition.
The positive reception of "The Shadow of the Wolf",[12] read out at the society's annual dinner, led Weighell to write more Sherlock Holmes stories.
During his writing career, Weighell was invited to submit articles to journals such as Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James, edited by S. T. Joshi and Rosemary Pardoe (2007).