Adam Nicke was born and raised in South Wales and has resided in the small border town of Chepstow since he was a teenager.
He graduated from the University of the West of England in 1995 with a BA (Hons) in Literary Studies, the same year the first edition of his Grim Fairy Tales was published.
Fate took a nasty turn in the following years until finally, in 2015, Adam Nicke collapsed with what was subsequently diagnosed as a tennis ball-sized brain tumour. Mary Shelley died of a brain tumour and new research by the author Matthew Pearl has posited that Edgar Allan Poe may have died of one.
His Grim Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories, ten haunting tales of the ghostly, decadent, and supernatural. This is how the poet Paul Verlaine defined decadence after critics used the term disparagingly to describe the Symbolist school of writers: "I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds". Paul Verlaine
Grim Fairy Tales was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Georges Rodenbach, Joris Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Marcel Schwob, and Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
His Temptation and Denial is set in the Georgian era and is a ghostly tale of immortal love, a love that transcends physical death; the character of Sebastian in this work is very much a Byronic Hero, inspired by Lord Macauley's description of such a protagonist: “… a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection”. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Temptation and Denial was influenced by Lord Byron, Emily Brontë, Charles Maturin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Algernon Blackwood, Mario Praz, Maximilian J. Rudwin, and Arthur Machen,
His Mallard the Quack is an anarchic comedy set in an 18th-century quack doctors' practice in Wales and has topped Goodreads' list of anti-Trump books for over two years! Mallard the Quack plunges the reader into the world of resurrectionists, fairground sideshows, medieval superstitions, quack doctors … and haunted furniture!
Mallard the Quack was influenced by P.G. Wodehouse, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Stephen Potter, Terry Jones, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook and Kenneth Williams.
His Immortal Seduction is a steamy, supernatural tale of love, lust, reincarnation, immortality, time slips back to the year 1891, and passionate encounters in the seemingly abandoned woodland apothecary shop of the immortal occultist Lucius d'Orléans. Suitable for broad-minded adults only.
Immortal Seduction was influenced by H.G.Wells, Lewis Spence, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Washington Irving, Sheridan Le Fanu, A.N. Roquelaure, and Anne Rampling.
Adam Nicke is also a vegan.
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