Monthly Archives: August 2022

Our second Idris Elba movie this month.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #18:- Consisting of thirty six flash fictions, each set in a different city and dealing with amorous activity, METROPHILIAS (Better Non Sequitur paperback, 100pp, $12) by Brendan Connell reads like a hybrid … Continue reading →

Last song for August’s JCM jamboree (and yes, I do know he’s now known as John Mellencamp, but he was Cougar when I first discovered him and I guess it’s stuck, in my mind at least).

This post follows on from Books Read in 2007 which I posted at the end of July. And for 2008 I read exactly one hundred and one books, one up from 2007’s total, but nothing reaches out and grabs me in … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 9/2/22:- First published in Great Britain in 2014, Bethany Griffin’s The Fall (Indigo Books pb, 420pp) is inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. It … Continue reading →

Sylvester Stallone as a superhero.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #17:- Richard Gavin is one of the most distinctive writers of weird fiction to emerge in the past few years, with a voice that has echoes of Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti and Clark … Continue reading →

Another golden oldie.

A book by that guy off the TV, the thoroughly amiable Richard Osman (at least he gives that impression). It’s breaking records all round, with over a million copies sold in the UK alone, success that is being repeated by … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 2/2/22:- Recognised as a leading authority on all things Halloween, award winning horror writer Lisa Morton now casts her non-fiction net that bit wider … Continue reading →