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Sep 22, 20192 min read

The Reddening, Adam Nevill - a review of new and old horror

I am humbled, both by the fact that Adam Nevill sent me this ARC and that I am mentioned in the acknowledgements. This is a horror author...

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Sep 16, 20192 min read

Preacher, Season 4 Episode 8 – wow

I have enjoyed AMC’s Preacher from the beginning. The mix of slapstick, dark comedy and horror makes it about as entertaining as TV...

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Coldheart Canyon, Clive Barker - a review

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Sep 4, 20191 min read

Coldheart Canyon, Clive Barker - a review

Coldheart Canyon looks at Hollywood circa 1920s and "present" 1990s. It shows how much the landscape has changed in that time and how...

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Aug 17, 20192 min read

A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller

This week my elder daughter got her A' Level results and wow did she nail them. I picked up this copy of Miller's play from the books she...

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Father of Lies, S. E. England – a review

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Aug 15, 20192 min read

Father of Lies, S. E. England – a review

I am not new to the idea of possession being misdiagnosed as D.I.D. I spoke with Paula Fenn at a seminar last year who works in this...

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Aug 9, 20192 min read

Feral, George Monbiot - a review

I first encountered George Monbiot on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. His soliloquy about radical environmentalism excited me so much I...

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Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill - a review and short story

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Jun 24, 20197 min read

Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill - a review and short story

I wrote a short story for my Creative Writing course twelve years ago with the same name and a friend asked me if I had read this book....

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And the Weak Suffer What They Must, Yanis Varoufakis - a review

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May 21, 20192 min read

And the Weak Suffer What They Must, Yanis Varoufakis - a review

I didn’t expect this to be a horror story, but it is. At a time of Brexit and the rise of racism and xenophobia encouraged by its...

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My Work is Not Yet Done, Thomas Ligotti - a review

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May 14, 20192 min read

My Work is Not Yet Done, Thomas Ligotti - a review

“My Work is Not Yet Done” is a collection of one novella and two short stories set in hellish corporate worlds. Ligotti is a bleak writer...

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Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything

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May 6, 20191 min read

Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything

I visited Douglas Adams' grave at Highgate and partook in the tradition of leaving a pen. I'm not sure why that's done by so many. Were...

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Apr 25, 20192 min read

Big Machine, Victor Lavalle - a review

“Big Machine” engaged me in ways few books have. In a delightful paradox the end left me satisfied yet full of questions. It’s a weird...

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson - a review

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Apr 19, 20192 min read

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson - a review

Although this book was first published in 1962, the idea of two young women protecting each other to the extent of letting others die to...

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Apr 11, 20192 min read

Us - movie review

Well I wasn't expecting that! Jordan Peele's "Us" is a superb, violent and frightening film that is highly intelligent, in the tradition...

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The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay – a review

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Mar 5, 20193 min read

The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay – a review

“Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.” Briefly, a family of city-dwellers...

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The Formative Power of Brevity – Border - Reading as a Writer

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Feb 28, 20194 min read

The Formative Power of Brevity – Border - Reading as a Writer

I recently watched a film called Border based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film made me buy the short story collection,...

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Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Blood Moon

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Feb 28, 20191 min read

Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Blood Moon

This is my favourite story in the anthology so far. Marlow’s prose is beautiful and sensual. We experience the suffering of Libby, our...

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Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Aqua Vita

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Feb 28, 20191 min read

Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Aqua Vita

Aqua Vita by A Giacomi is a delightful piece of vampire lore. And though the style should be jarring, it has an elegant rhythm. I cannot...

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Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - A Mother's Instinct

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Feb 27, 20191 min read

Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - A Mother's Instinct

This anthology came out at the start of February and I am reviewing each of the short stories in turn (excluding my own of course). A...

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Feb 23, 20192 min read

Skagboys, Irvine Welsh - a review

Twenty years after the release of Trainspotting in 1993, Irvine Welsh wrote a prequel “Skagboys”. We are introduced to the main...

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Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews, A Bloody Beginning

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Feb 20, 20191 min read

Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews, A Bloody Beginning

The second story in the anthology is "A Bloody Beginning" by Laurencia Hoffman. It's a companion short featuring Melina, a vampire whose...

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