Book Review: Steven Deighan & Terry Cooper – Feels Like Stephen King
Steven Deighan has been plugging away in the indie horror scene for almost a decade now, and published his first collection in 2006 (which I reviewed for now-defunct site Yet Another Book Review). It...
View ArticleRebecca Levene – Tomes of the Dead: Anno Mortis
It’s a while since I reviewed anything from British genre publisher Abaddon Books (see here), and indeed since I read anything from them. I’ve got a certain measure of admiration for what they’re...
View ArticleTriangle (2009)
This isn’t really a review so much as a “Wot I Think” – a quick run-through of some half-developed ideas and reasons why I liked or didn’t like this film. I’ve been arguing with a few friends about...
View ArticlePontypool (2009)
Well, here’s something I’ve been meaning to write for about five months. The film Pontypool is pretty old news now: I originally heard about it in early 2010 due to its appearance on a ‘Best Horror of...
View ArticleGary McMahon – The Concrete Grove review
As I sit down to write this review in mid-August, 2011, the riots that have erupted across Britain over the past week have begun to subside, the energies that drove them dissipating in the face of a...
View ArticleS L Grey – The Mall review
"Leading duo Rhoda and Dan are less heroic than most. The former has lost a child in the mall whilst scoring coke, and the latter is a socially and emotionally stunted miseryguts who despises his job....
View ArticleBrighton After the Bomb (2008): Part One
"The light still creeps into her awareness, and she thinks nuclear bomb! Nuclear bomb! But there is no rush of air or fire or debris washing over her, just this bright, bright light."
View ArticleBrighton After the Bomb (2008): Part Two
"It feels its hard, sharp, precise, ordered edges begin to warp and crack as they are assailed by this intolerably sloppy music."
View ArticleIn the Night (2006)
"We know they first came for us three nights ago, although we can no longer distinguish between night and day without aid of a watch. None of us ever actually saw the things that came."
View ArticleThe Old Choir (2008)
"He began to scream for help, for forgiveness, for mercy, for everything he could think of, until his lungs were raw and empty of air."
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