Monthly Archives: January 2022

It’s time for another list, and as we’re playing S&G cover versions on the blog this month, what better than a list of my favourite songs by them. A Top 10 then, in alphabetical order as I’d hate to arrange … Continue reading →

Published by Black Shuck Books last November, Only the Broken Remain is the debut collection from Dan Coxon. It opens with “Stanislav in Foxtown”, a story that originally appeared in Black Static #56 under the pseudonym Ian Steadman (or perhaps … Continue reading →

Remake of a classic. Let’s see if they can bring anything new (and worthwhile) to the table.

Published by Black Shuck Books, Closer Still is the fourth novella by Richard Farren Barber that I have read and reviewed (and you can locate those other reviews via the Book Review Index). It’s a length that seems to agree … Continue reading →

And this month our Song for a Sunday will feature cover versions of Simon and Garfunkel songs. Here’s Mumford & Sons with their version of possibly my favourite (lyrically speaking) S&G number.

Back in October I did a list of my favourite books of the year so far, and as it’s now January 2022 time for another update. For the months October through December, I read a total of forty six books, … Continue reading →

Published by Black Shuck Books way back in 2017, There Is A Way To Live Forever contains thirteen stories by indie press stalwart Terry Grimwood. It opens with “Demons and Demons”, a traditional horror story that would make a great … Continue reading →

I hadn’t heard a thing about this until the ads starting popping up on the small screen over Christmas.

The latest release in the Black Shuck Shadows series, at the time of writing, and the final entry in our Twelve Days of Christmas, is #28, A Box Full of Darkness by Simon Avery. It contains four long short stories. … Continue reading →

#27 in the Black Shuck Shadows series, Beyond Glass is the first time I’ve encountered the work of Rachel Knightley, and also I believe her first collection. It contains six stories, two of which are linked and bookend the others, … Continue reading →