Monthly Archives: March 2024

A new entry in the fifty year old album stakes, Everyone is Everybody Else by the wonderful Barclay James Harvest. This is the opening track.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 6/9/23: – Though I haven’t read him much in recent years, I’m a huge admirer of Tim Powers’ work – apart from a couple of early … Continue reading →

Godzilla Minus One brought a tear to my eye, but I don’t think this one will.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #82/83:- Ray Cluley is another master of the short form, as Stephen Volk himself acknowledges in his introduction to our next book up for review. Cluley has the distinction of being the … Continue reading →

Here endeth the first side of Genesis’ fifty year old double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 30/8/23: – Published in trade paperback by Dedalus in 2014, Time of the Beast is the first and, so far as I can discover, only novel by Geoff … Continue reading →

Son(s) of Ghostbusters.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #82/83:- Scriptwriting maestro Stephen Volk has only had three stories published in Black Static, but his ‘Coffinmaker’s Blues’ column ran from #1 through to #55 (though it was originally called ‘Electric Darkness’), … Continue reading →

David Bowie making his pitch for your vote with the fourth track from Diamond Dogs.

I read nine books in February, all of them short story collections, taking my total for the year to twenty one books, and as I’m reluctant to tag any particular book as the worst I’ve read so far this year, … Continue reading →