What I love most about this season is that we are not spoon fed information about Norman's perception vs reality. Instead we receive...

We are galloping towards the end of this show, and A&E are doing an amazing job of hiding their final hand. Episode 7 Sam Loomis is dead...

The Rage of Cthulhu is published by Horrific Tales Publishing and was released on March 23rd 2017. The story begins well. In the first...

Marion Crane meet Norman Bates. This episode shows Norman at his most lucid. After his discussion with Dr Edwards and discoveries at...

Ravi, Ravi, Ravi, what's with all the toxic masculinity shit this season? One of the things I appreciated most about the first two...

Episode 5, “Dreams Die First”, is about learning painful truths. And Rihanna arrives! Bates Motel is no longer a prequel to Psycho. We...

“Hidden” deals with Norman trying to regain control over his life. This episode starts where the last one ended, with Chick, Norman and...

Norma is front and centre in this episode and we see the different aspects of the Norma/n dynamic at play. At first Caleb regains...

Norman visits Alex Romero in prison. Norma tells him it's stupid, and it probably is, but Norman wants to show Alex he's alive and well....

Season 5 kicks off 18 months after Norma's death. Romero is serving 5 years in County for the perjury charge. Norma's body is in a...

Scott stands beneath the shower rose. Clouds of steam rise from the angry jet of water. The steam billows and expands, filling the small...

Well, with another season still to go, I wasn't expecting that! Alex couldn't sleep last night. Norma wakes to find him drinking coffee...

Season 2 ended with a massacre and the revelation that [spoiler alert] Philmore Graves (Fill More Graves, get it?) CEO, Vivian Stoll, is...

The white-haired man plants kisses on his lips, but the boy shakes his head. Letting his lover sleep, the man sits naked on top of the...

Norman is struggling to see Norma as someone separate from himself. Contains spoilers. This powerful episode was written by Freddie...

Includes spoilers. Oh no! Norman's coming home. In the first scene we see the old pet dog taxidermy in Norman's room as Norma peers in....

Includes spoilers. Episode 5 Dylan brings Emma home. She feels ashamed of the huge scar below her breasts and at first pretends she is...

Bates Motel is great. The series covers the early life of Norman Bates, pre Psycho. The relationship between Norman and his mother is...

The Grotesquerie is a collection of 22 short stories by various authors celebrating women in horror. I bought it because the editor Eden...

I've had a bit of a Ryu Murakami fest this week. His books are so quick to read yet they chill me to the bone. Ryu Murakami's antagonists...