Cathi Unsworth

Cathi Unsworth is an English writer and journalist. After working for Sounds, Melody Maker, and Bizarre, she began writing novels, with The Not Knowing in 2005 and The Singer in 2007, on Serpent's Tail. She also edited its London Noir anthology in 2006.

Her writing is heavily influenced by the late Derek Raymond.

She lives in London, where she still works as a journalist, including for Dazed & Confused.

She published in 2023 the book Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth which is about the music genre and the subculture that grew out of it. Mojo's Victoria Segal praised it, saying, it was a "superb history of the dark and all its risings", adding "It's as monumental as its subject, a real temple of love".

Novels

 * The Not Knowing (2005)
 * The Singer (2007)
 * Bad Penny Blues (2009)
 * Weirdo (2012)
 * Without the Moon (2015)
 * That Old Black Magic (2018)

Books

 * Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth. Nine Eight Books. (2023) ISBN 978-1788706247

Short story collections

 * London Noir: Capital Crime Fiction (2006) (as editor)

Other

 * Man of Violence An essay for the sleeve notes for the DVD release from the BFI Flipside range.
 * That Kind of Girl The sleeve notes for the DVD release from the BFI Flipside range.
 * Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story
 * The 32-page booklet accompanying the 2023 deluxe reissue of A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window by Cardiacs.