Monthly Archives: October 2021

All day and, more importantly, all night. Season’s greetings to all my readers. I have no tricks, but here is your treat.

Halloween tomorrow, so here’s a treat for you. If “Generation Landslide” wasn’t my favourite Alice Cooper song it would probably be this proud beauty.

Academic Denis MacEoin has written thrillers under the pen name Daniel Easterman and ghost stories as Jonathan Aycliffe. The less said about the former the better – I read Night of the Seventh Darkness back in the day and was … Continue reading →

Now this looks like it might be interesting.

A feature on the work of Thomas Ligotti that originally appeared in Black Static #10:- INSIDE THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK WITH THOMAS LIGOTTI Thomas Ligotti, whom The Washington Post once called ‘the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction’, is not … Continue reading →

Or back in the multiplex. Brief thoughts on some films I’ve watched recently (spoiler alert – no Bond). Candyman I was the only person in the cinema for this ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 1992 film based on a Clive Barker … Continue reading →

Turn that damned thing down. Nah, turn it up, all the way up.

As far as I can recall I’ve only ever read one book by Steve Vernon – Hard Roads, put out by Gray Friar Press back in the day and consisting of two novellas. It was a review copy received via … Continue reading →

I’ve read the book a couple of times and watched the David Lynch film, so looking forward to at last seeing what Denis Villeneuve does with the material.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #11:- STILL BLEEDING Steve Mosby has things to show us: there is about his work the feel of something terrible taking place, an event unfolding before our eyes at which we stare … Continue reading →