Claustrophobic, disturbing, and creepy. A lost girl is kidnapped and held for years by a dangerous man. Her doll takes the brunt of his...

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

Psychonaut is the second book in Carmilla Voiez’s Starblood series. It’s a relaunch of the novel by American indie Vamptasy Publishing....

“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...

It isn't only dogs who like going for walkies. Today my cat decided to follow me and my friend to the beach and play in the sand. He met...

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...

As many of you know I am writing the fourth book in the Starblood series: Ribbons. I have a release date looming, although if necessary...

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One...

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...

Star visualises the sun. She concentrates on its golden rays and lets it grow inside her. Her body tingles and warms. The sun shines...

Mercury Falling is the first short story in the collection and so it makes sense that it's the first I will review. Over the next few...

March 12, 2019 is the release date for the new Vamptasy relaunch of my novel Psychonaut. I could not be more excited. Of all my books...

The source of human emotion and particularly love was considered to be the heart for many cultures including the ancient Egyptians and...

Melissa was a celebrity long before Wanda started working at Witchwood. Her name had graced the front pages of national newspapers. She’d...

I've been exhausted all day after a late night chat on Writer Imperfect. It was worth it though and you can watch the results here. It's...

This week I am busy editing Ribbons. At 70k it's shorter than the others and I keep hoping to find a thread (or ribbon) that I can tug on...