Simon Maginn is a British writer who has written five novels under his own name: Sheep, Virgins and Martyrs, A Sickness of the Soul, Methods of Confinement and Rattus. The last of these was published alongside a novella by Gary Fry entitled The Invisible Architect of Psychopathy. Maginn's novels are horror/psychological thrillers. A film version of Sheep was released as The Dark in 2005.