SPOILER ALERT: This blog contains spoilers for The Mist (Netflix 2017). Recently I watched Netflix’s The Mist, a TV series adaptation of...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay accepts that the crisis is ahead of us and has...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a review of Unheimlich Manoevres in the Dark....

Review On the Shoulders of Otava & Naming the Bones Before reading Laura Mauro On the Shoulders of Otava, I decided to pick up Naming the...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The one is a review of Christopher Slatsky's book The...

This is an essay-review of England’s Dark Dreaming, Paul Watson's second book of artwork, which can be purchased here. England’s Dark...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, is a...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The review of the children's Lovecraft book, The Old One...

Review ~ I Spit Myself Out by Tracy Fahey I’m not comfortable in me anymore. Much as Tracy Fahey’s earlier (second) collection The...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays.This one revisits my reviews of two works of contemporary horror, ‘The...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is my preface for Born in Blood: Volume II by George Daniel Lea,...

This essay has also been published by Mutiny. Is it time that we took dystopias seriously again? Whether it is US President-elect Biden’s...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. A Review of Born in Blood: Volume One, first published September 13,...

From poetry to theory... It would be a grotesque understatement to say that 2020 has been a crap year. I have been luckier than many, but...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. In reviewing George Daniel Lea's Strange Playgrounds, I explore the...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. Here I review The Finite and Trying to be So Quiet. First published...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. From Paranoid Fairytales to the Familiar-Strange, here I review two...

The Binding of Isaac, a philosophical(ish) review The Binding of Isaac is unlike any other computer game. To begin, what in most games...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This piece examines the strange aesthetic mismatch involved in the...

From satire to reality, from mismatched obscenities to grim comedy. The mid-90s game Crusader: No Remorse was amongst the first games I...