Welcome to my blog. I’m Murray Ewing, occasional writer, publisher, illustrator and musician and (here) rambler on things I’ve read, watched or (on occasion) visited. I live in the UK, was born in the early 1970s, and have had a lifelong interest in fantasy, SF and (later) horror/weird books, TV and films, with the occasional dip into classic and contemporary fiction.

What I do here is set down what a book or film or whatever means to me, so these writings aren’t traditional book reviews, and may contain spoilers, as some books need a full discussion to get their meaning out. These are the sort of things to read after you’ve read a book yourself and see if you agree. (I tend not to spoil recent books, but most of the books on this blog are a little on the older side.)

I tend to return to certain authors and subjects, sometimes working through the whole of a writer’s output or a specific series. To give some examples, here’s what you might find on this blog: David Lindsay, J G Ballard, Ramsey Campbell, H P Lovecraft, Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood series, Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea books, Patricia McKillip’s Riddle-Master trilogy, John Wyndham, Alan Garner, Clive Barker, Louise Lawrence, British 1970s rural weird YA (or Folk Fantasy as I sometimes call it), and the Alien films to name some.

For my other creative projects, see the rest of this site, plus my site dedicated to David Lindsay, the author of A Voyage to Arcturus, VioletApple.org.

Enjoy!

Image use

Mewsings mostly uses cover images, etc., either scanned in by myself or nicked, in the traditional way, from the internet. If I’ve used one of your images and you don’t want me to have done so, let me know and I’ll take it down immediately. Or, if I’ve failed to credit one properly, let me know and I’ll gladly update it.