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So, every so often a reader will email me or contact me on social media or what not, and ask why I did something or didn't do another thing, or just ask me to go into more detail about a piece of work or an off-hand remark I made in an interview. While I normally answer those in the medium the question arrived in, there are always a few that I feel need a bit more breathing room - or get asked so often that I feel the need to write something I can just link to.

Resonant Frequencies. Assistant. Mason. SFMR: wtchmn. Planks Constant. On Your Mark. Resident Evil. Jigsaw.

Silver Screams is a series of essays focused on the black and white horror films of yesteryear. Everything from Universal monster-rallies to Poverty Row ghouls will be covered. The series will be u…

I had completely forgotten that I'd seen this one a few years ago, during my 'writing a Zombicide novel' zombie movie marathon (the results of which you can read, if you're of a mind - check out Aconyte Books, and Zombicide: Last Resort). This isn't to say that it's a bad film, just that it's an easily forgettable one. It's also a direct-to-video zombie film, of which there are loads - many of which are equal parts awful and boring. FotLD is neither of those things. It's not particularly good, mind; but it's not bad.

"It's in the trees! It's coming!" A few years ago, around Halloween time, Powerhouse Films had a package deal for the first of their William

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Vampires. I've had them on the brain, lately. Some of it is down to listening to the new (ish) Mikal KHill EP, The Clock is Ticking. The first track, "The Riot", has a line in the hook: 'An empire of vampires and grifters' which sticks with me even now. I want to steal it for something - a line of dialogue, an inner monologue, something - but I'm trying to refrain from that sort of magpie-ism. Nonetheless, it's a great EP, check it out. Anyway, vampires. My first real experience with vampire fiction was the 1987 anthology, …

I finally managed to read Tim Dorsey's latest - and last - Serge Storms novel, The Maltese Iguana last month, and it was a bittersweet experience. Dorsey died recently, and that means no more adventures of the loveable Florida-phile (and occasional serial killer) Serge, and his perennial wingman, Coleman. At the end of the book, Serge and Coleman ride off into the Miami sunset, on the hunt for new adventure - ones that we'll never get to see. I've been reading Dorsey's books for damn near twenty years now, and I've been rereading them just as long.

Kung Fu Antipopes and Other Strange Stories - Kindle edition by Leone, Paul. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Kung Fu Antipopes and Other Strange Stories.

While I'm a huge fan of John Carpenter's 1982 remake (re-envisioning?), the original 1951 RKO classic remains one of my favourite films from the era of space invaders and atomic monsters. There's just something about the way James Arness looms, I guess. Being 6'7 helped some with that, I suppose. At any rate, it's a film I've watched many times - and will, no doubt, watch many more - because for all the jokes about space carrots, it's an extremely well-done film. For all that it lacks the paranoia of the source material (John W.

The Great Library of Mortlake Sinister Tomes of the Royal Occultist Mythos. 5. Testimony of a Mudlark Testimony of a Mudlark or What the Mudlark Saw on An October Morning to give it it's full title, is a curious work, published in 1856 or thereabouts by a now-defunct printer, in a limited run of a few dozen copies. The slim volume purports to be the statement of a London mudlark - never named - arrested for the murder of a young girl, who is not identified in the text itself save by the initials 'NJ'.

Links! Things I find interesting, cool, or infuriating! Enjoy - or don't. I'm not paying you to read this. Chris (@oneintwenty.bsky.social) has made a cool print version of one of my digital-only collections for their personal collection. Take a gander at that! Sticking with social media, my novel, Nagash: The Undying King has made it into the Black Library Readers' Hall of Fame. Ain't that swell? Eruditorium Press has released a new chapter in The Last War in Albion, which covers Alan Moore's psychogeographic novel, Voice of the Fire…

Another week, another Kickstarter. This time around, its Belanger Books' campaign to fund Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Mystery 1891 and 1892. I happen to have stories in both volumes - "Serpents Tooth" in 1891 and "The Lord of the Sheepfolds" in 1892. Both stories feature not Holmes and Watson, but gossipmonger Langdale Pike and his bodyguard, Harrison Stickle. Pike is one of the innumerable side characters who appear offscreen in the Holmes canon. In Pike's case, he was mentioned only once, in "The Adventure of the Three Gables", and was masterfully played by Peter Wyngarde in the Granada Television adaption of the story.

All five of my Arkham Horror novels are now available as audiobooks on a variety of platforms. Recently a fellow writer told me that she discovered my first three novels on Libby, the audiobook ser…

Buy The Terror Beneath: An Investigative Roleplaying Game of Weird Folk Horror (Osprey Roleplaying) by Malthouse, Scott, Design, Brainbug (ISBN: 9781472858399) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low p...

ABHOBC: Coda. Try to Remember. The End and The Death. Transfomers the Movie: 40. The Horned God Part Five. Planks Constant. Haters no like cos the Flow is so Tight. Santo & Blue Demon Vs. the Monster...

This one is going to be brief, because frankly, there's not much to say about Grim (1996) , other than it's bad. And not in a 'so bad it's good' sort of way, but just in a 'it's tedious' sort of way. Boring. It's boring. The characters are boring, the narrative is boring and the eponymous Temu Rawhead Rex that everything revolves around is also boring - which is probably the most damning thing about the film. If the monster is boring, what are you even doing? The annoying thing is there's a lot of potential here: a distinctly European-style ogre imprisoned in a West Virginia mine is a wild concept.

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The Tainted Grove - Kindle edition by Leone, Paul. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Tainted Grove.

Occult Gazetteer Places and Organisations of the Royal Occultist Mythos. 7. Sergeant Ogden and The Unnameables At the outbreak of the Great War, Sergeant Robert ‘Bobby’ Ogden, of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and his squad were seconded to the Royal Occultist, Thomas Carnacki, to serve as bodyguards, escorts and general dogsbodies for both Carnacki and his new apprentice, Charles St. Cyprian. Nicknamed the 'Unnameables', Ogden and his men faced any number of unnatural opponents in the early years of the war, including a nest of vampires beneath St. Martin’s Church in Ypres and the abominable Hound of Mons.

Ireland, 1922. Inside an ancient crannog, an ancient power stirs and innocent blood is spilled. Now it falls to Charles St. Cyprian, the Royal Occulti...

So, every so often a reader will email me or contact me on social media or what not, and ask why I did something or didn't do another thing, or just ask me to go into more detail about a piece of work or an off-hand remark I made in an interview. While I normally answer those in the medium the question arrived in, there are always a few that I feel need a bit more breathing room - or get asked so often that I feel the need to write something I can just link to.