Monthly Archives: June 2024

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #11 as part of a cluster of reviews under the general heading “Horror, By Any Other Name”:- As far as the mass market is concerned, Horror is no longer a viable market … Continue reading →

Two more tracks from Genesis’ 1974 double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 2/11/23: – Published by Dark Horse in 2016, Children of Lovecraft is award winning editor Ellen Datlow’s third anthology of fiction inspired by the work of H. P. … Continue reading →

After a turn as The Pope’s Exorcist, it seems Russell Crowe himself is in need of an exorcist in this new film.

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #33:- FALLING OUT OF CARS Jeff Noon Transworld hb, 345pp, £12.99 The time is the near future and Britain has fallen under the spell of a new disease, the nature of … Continue reading →

The second track from the second side of Diamond Dogs.

Having dodged the bullet for over four years, May 2024 was the month when I finally caught Covid-19. For about a fortnight I simply didn’t have the enthusiasm or energy to do anything much, including reading, though curiously I did … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 31/10/23: – Having got S. T. Joshi out of our TBR pile, for Halloween I’ll turn my attention to another editor who has dipped a toe … Continue reading →

I just read a short story about one of Freud’s final encounters, albeit not with C. S. Lewis, so this showing up on my radar feels rather serendipitous.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #82/83:- Malcolm Devlin has had two stories appear in Black Static and TTA Press published his novella Engines Beneath Us. Devlin’s latest novella is titled AND THEN I WOKE UP (Tor.com pb, … Continue reading →