Author. Artist.

Stories from the quiet dark.

I write psychological thrillers, memoir, and horror. Home of the Lottie Walker series and the memoir Pinned Inside My Mind.

Start here: The Collector’s House, my new horror serial, free to newsletter readers.

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The Books

Tension that lives close to home.

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Latest release

Pinned Inside My Mind

Memoir  ·  Published May 2026

A memoir about the mind and the weight it can carry. Honest, unflinching, and written for anyone who has felt trapped by their own thoughts.

Paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited. Available on Amazon worldwide.
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Psychological thriller

Chains of Retribution

Lottie Walker, Book One  ·  Out now

The first Lottie Walker thriller. A buried past, a present that will not stay quiet, and a reckoning that has waited too long.

Paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited. Available on Amazon worldwide.
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Lottie Walker · Two
Ghost
Lucie Simmons
Psychological thriller

Ghost

Lottie Walker, Book Two

Lottie returns. The case that follows her home is the one she cannot let go.

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Horror
The Queue
Lucie Simmons
Horror

The Queue

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A line forms in London for something no one will name. Sarah joins it. Leaving is the part no one talks about.

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Psychological thriller
Fractured
Lucie Simmons
Psychological thriller

Fractured

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Ethan Calloway profiles killers for a living. He is also responsible for four murders he cannot remember. A psychological thriller built to be read twice.

Psychological thriller
The Midnight Suite
Lucie Simmons
Psychological thriller

The Midnight Suite

Standalone

Maya Lawson is invited to a secretive London hotel where the building watches every guest and turns fear into data. Leaving was never part of the offer.

Lucie Simmons
About Lucie

Dark fiction, honest stories.

Lucie Simmons writes psychological thrillers, memoir, and horror. She is the author of the Lottie Walker series and the memoir Pinned Inside My Mind, published in 2026.

Her memoir is drawn from lived experience. It tells the truth about anxiety, panic disorder, and PTSD, and about surviving them.

Alongside writing, she is a visual artist. She paints large format work, makes jewellery, and crafts miniatures and resin pieces, and she illustrated one of her own book covers. That love of miniatures runs straight into her horror serial, The Collector’s House.

She has read dark fiction since childhood, with James Herbert a lasting influence on her horror writing. She lives and works in the UK.

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After Dark with Lucie

Horror serials, told in clips.

Original horror, written and posted as a run of clips on TikTok, then given in full to my newsletter readers. Every serial lives under one tag, so you can binge the lot in one place.

Five part serial

The Collector’s House

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Aurora Goodchild builds the most beautiful miniature houses in Britain. Her newest piece is a mansion under glass, made for a collector who asked for one thing. He asked her to make it frightening.

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Urban Legends

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Modern legends told uneasy and in character, each in two parts. Tinkerbell, Pick Up, Going Down, The Smiling Man, and more to come.

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She builds tiny houses. Something moved into the last one.

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