Monthly Archives: January 2017

The strange ones in the dome are always lending me books.

Yesterday I went to Norwich for a performance of La Cage aux Folles, a musical in which an obnoxiously right wing politician with an anti-LGBT agenda gets shown the error of his ways through the combined efforts of a celebrity … Continue reading →

Reviews of two short story collections that originally appeared in Black Static #53:- EPISODES FROM ANOTHER WORLD Storylandia is the title of ‘The Wapshott Journal of Fiction’, published by Wapshott Press. The Spring 2015 issue, STORYLANDIA #15 (Wapshott Press pb, … Continue reading →

The latest offering from M. Night Shyamalan looks promising.

Following on from last Sunday’s post, the third and final part of a feature on themed anthologies that originally appeared in Black Static #53:- THEMED ANTHOLOGIES (continued) Publisher Gary Fry recently announced the closure of Gray Friar Press, which has … Continue reading →

Back in October I did a list of my favourite books for the first three quarters of the year. The year now being well and truly over, I can give a final tally of the books I enjoyed the most … Continue reading →

I’ve been having fun, but as far as blogging goes the last six days have disappeared down a rabbit hole. Here’s Bowie.

Following on from last Friday’s post, the second part of a feature on themed anthologies that originally appeared in Black Static #53:- THEMED ANTHOLOGIES (continued) As the title might suggest, there’s a comedic element to many of the stories in … Continue reading →

This year instead of posting whatever shows up first on my YouTube playlist, I’ve decided to feature a different artist each month, and as he passed away in January of last year nothing could be more appropriate than to kick … Continue reading →

The first part of a feature on themed anthologies that originally appeared in Black Static #53:- THEMED ANTHOLOGIES Once upon a time it was possible to put together an anthology of horror stories by new and established writers, and publish … Continue reading →