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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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....

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...

“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...

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...

“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...

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...

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

“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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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

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