Monthly Archives: March 2023

Following on from Tuesday’s blog entry, here’s the second part of a feature on the work of Gary McMahon that originally appeared in Black Static #14:- THE STORY SO FAR: GARY McMAHON (part 2) Hungry Hearts (Abaddon paperback, 311pp, £6.99) is the … Continue reading →

I’ve never played the game, though I have dim memories of watching one of the films. Maybe I’ll watch this too.

The first part of a feature on the work of Gary McMahon that originally appeared in a somewhat different form in Black Static #14:- THE STORY SO FAR: GARY McMAHON I read Gary McMahon’s first story ‘Neighbours’ in the taboo … Continue reading →

I’m not a big fan of “Benny and The Jets”, so we’ll skip to the title song on Elton’s seventh album.

This post follows on from Books Read in 2012, which I posted at the end of January 2023. And for 2013 I read one hundred and forty four books, six down from the previous year, and again the majority of them … Continue reading →

Following on from Tuesday’s blog entry, here’s the second part of a feature on Christopher Fowler’s work that originally appeared in Black Static #28:- BRING ON THE JUBILEE: CHRISTOPHER FOWLER (part 2) Of course Fowler doesn’t write just short stories: he has some … Continue reading →

Another double bill this week, with the latest franchise entry and something decidedly weird from David Cronenberg’s son.

The first part of a feature on the work of Christopher Fowler that originally appeared in Black Static #28:- BRING ON THE JUBILEE: CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Just in case anybody reading this hasn’t been paying attention, you need to know that … Continue reading →

Third track from the first album.

Originally published in 2004, when Charlie Parker was only four books old, Nocturnes is John Connolly’s first collection of short stories. The Parker books, the work for which Connolly is best known, have a supernatural element but get marketed under … Continue reading →