Monthly Archives: October 2022

Halloween tomorrow and if this doesn’t get you in the mood then I don’t know what will.

This post follows on from Books Read in 2009, which I posted at the end of September. And for 2010 I read one hundred and six books, seven up from the total in 2009. A bad habit I carried over … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #13:- Frenzy (Eternal Press paperback, 79pp, $5.95) is by Carole Johnstone, a writer who debuted in Black Static. The plot has a deceptive simplicity to it. Pete wakes from troubled sleep to … Continue reading →

Now here’s a mystery. On imdb we’re told that this film has been retitled “The Devil’s Light”, but on YouTube there are trailers with both titles and they’re very different. One poster claimed that “The Devil’s Light” was actually “The … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #13:- Groaning Shadows (Gray Friar Press paperback/hardback, 246pp, £8/£18) is a collection of four supernatural novellas by Paul Finch, some 100k words in total. Opener ‘The Sundered Flesh’ has a student sucked … Continue reading →

I had to get this one in.

Published in 2016, this volume contains five stories, all of novella or novelette length. The title piece, “The Travelling Bag”, consists of an account of his strangest case given to a member of his club by the psychic detective Gilbert … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #13:- Vardøger (Gray Friar Press paperback/hardback, 92pp, £8/£18) is the title of the latest novella by Black Static columnist Stephen Volk. The title comes from Norwegian folklore, where it signifies a spirit … Continue reading →

The Rock as a superhero – always knew he had it in him.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #13:- Joseph D’Lacey’s The Kill Crew (StoneGarden.net Publishing paperback, 77pp, £5.95) has a similar end of days feel to the Crowther (see last Thursday’s post), the events of this novella set after … Continue reading →