Monthly Archives: January 2015

After looking out the window earlier this morning, something by Snow Patrol seems appropriate, and this is my girl friend’s favourite:-

I’m carrying on with the ‘tradition’ started in 2011, but forgotten entirely last year, of handing out a few bouquets to those whose literary endeavours impressed me the most in the preceding twelve months. To repeat what I said before:- … Continue reading →

Interesting. A Casting of the Runes variant perhaps, or The Ring.

A couple of reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #40:- TWO FROM TARTARUS Edited by Rosalie Parker, STRANGE TALES VOLUME IV (Tartarus Press hc, 252pp, £35) opens with ‘By Leaf and Thorn’ by Christopher Harman, in which a local … Continue reading →

One of my favourite songs from Mr Lenny.

Three reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #41:- CREATURES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW Chances are if you’ve any sort of acquaintance with speculative fiction in its many forms, then you’ll have seen the work of Ian Miller. He’s been … Continue reading →

I’m starting to get excited.

There’s nothing like a good old mad scientist to kick start a horror movie, and if that’s true now then it was even more so back in the 1950s. Indestructible Man (1956) Scientists want a cadaver to experiment on, and … Continue reading →

A golden oldie, from Mr David Bowie.

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #38:- DEMONIZED: CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Serpent’s Tail pb, 241pp, £10 This is the fifth collection of short stories that I’ve read by Fowler and in many ways the strongest, with seventeen pieces … Continue reading →