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  • Jan 2022
    • Star Lord by Louise Lawrence
    • The Wyndcliffe by Louise Lawrence
  • Dec 2021
    • Contemporary reviews of The Hole of the Pit, part II
    • Contemporary reviews of The Hole of the Pit
    • Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
  • Nov 2021
    • The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
    • Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell
  • Oct 2021
    • Hammer House of Horror
    • On Fairy-Stories by J R R Tolkien
    • The Silence
  • Sep 2021
    • The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
    • The Alabaster Hand by A N L Munby
  • Aug 2021
    • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    • The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
  • Jul 2021
    • The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
    • The X-Files
    • Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki
  • Jun 2021
    • Joyland and Later by Stephen King
    • Mandog
  • May 2021
    • The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
    • The Scarecrows by Robert Westall
  • Apr 2021
    • La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
    • Harpist in the Wind by Patricia McKillip
  • Mar 2021
    • The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross
    • Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia McKillip
  • Feb 2021
    • Incarnate by Ramsey Campbell
    • The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia McKillip
  • Jan 2021
    • Necromancer by Robert Holdstock
    • The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale
    • Elric: The Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
  • Dec 2020
    • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J K Rowling, Jack Thorne & Jack Tiffany
    • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
    • Armed With Madness by Mary Butts
  • Nov 2020
    • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling
    • The Rift by Nina Allan
  • Oct 2020
    • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling
    • Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
  • Sep 2020
    • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling
    • Ashe of Rings by Mary Butts
    • A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
  • Aug 2020
    • Life’s Morning Hour by E H Visiak
    • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
    • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling
  • Jul 2020
    • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling
    • Big Mister by William Rayner
  • Jun 2020
    • The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
    • Aliens in the Mind
  • May 2020
    • The Haunted Island by E H Visiak
    • Escape to Witch Mountain
  • Apr 2020
    • The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
    • The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell
    • Green Mansions by W H Hudson
  • Feb 2020
    • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
    • Medusa by E H Visiak
  • Jan 2020
    • Sphinx by Oscar Wilde
    • Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell
  • Dec 2019
    • The Sound of His Horn by Sarban
    • Lilith by George MacDonald
  • Nov 2019
    • Phantastes by George MacDonald
    • Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
  • Oct 2019
    • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
    • A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
  • Sep 2019
    • The Institute by Stephen King
    • The Chocky Trilogy
    • Memory: The Origins of Alien
  • Aug 2019
    • Camelot 3000
    • Daphne du Maurier’s weird fiction
    • That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis
  • Jul 2019
    • Perelandra by C S Lewis
    • Out of the Silent Planet by C S Lewis
  • Jun 2019
    • Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens
    • Future City
    • Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken
  • May 2019
    • Game of Thrones
    • Tolkien
    • Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair
  • Apr 2019
    • Demian by Hermann Hesse
    • The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
  • Mar 2019
    • Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell
    • Symbolist Art
    • Codename Icarus
  • Feb 2019
    • The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
    • Blade Runner 2049
  • Jan 2019
    • Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
    • The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
  • Dec 2018
    • Meddie, and other poetry updates
    • Lovecraft and Trauma
    • The Way of the Worm by Ramsey Campbell
  • Nov 2018
    • Carrie by Stephen King
    • The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock
  • Oct 2018
    • Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
    • Stranger Things
  • Sep 2018
    • A Voyage to Arcturus as an allegory of life
    • Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
    • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Aug 2018
    • The Morrow Books by H M Hoover
    • You’re All Alone/The Sinful Ones by Fritz Leiber
  • Jul 2018
    • Devoured by Anna Mackmin
    • The Palace of Morgana by John Sterling
  • Jun 2018
    • The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay
    • Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth Exhibition
    • Quantum by Manjit Kumar
  • May 2018
    • The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard
    • Ice by Anna Kavan
  • Apr 2018
    • The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell
    • Year King by Penelope Farmer
  • Mar 2018
    • The Death of Grass by John Christopher
    • A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer
    • Vertigo
  • Feb 2018
    • The Shape of… What? Er…
    • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
    • The Light Maze by Joan North
  • Jan 2018
    • Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
    • The Angel of the West Window by Gustav Meyrink
  • Dec 2017
    • From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L Weston
    • Axël by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
  • Nov 2017
    • Born to the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
    • Even Stranger Things: A Night for Robert Aickman
    • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Oct 2017
    • Play for Today: Z for Zachariah
    • The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein
    • A Voyage to Arcturus — the Séance
  • Sep 2017
    • The Birds
    • The Belgariad by David Eddings
  • Aug 2017
    • The Invisibles
    • The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell
  • Jul 2017
    • The House on the Brink by John Gordon
    • The Hashish Eater by Clark Ashton Smith
    • The Authentic Voice of Wizardry
  • Jun 2017
    • Providence by Alan Moore
    • Hello World
    • Walkabout
  • May 2017
    • Alien: Covenant
    • English Gothic by Jonathan Rigby
  • Apr 2017
    • Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
    • Break in the Sun
  • Mar 2017
    • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
    • Sphinx by David Lindsay, Sphinx by Cyril Scott
  • Feb 2017
    • Blow-Up and Performance
    • The Height of the Scream by Ramsey Campbell
    • Spacewreck
  • Jan 2017
    • Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
    • Flowers
  • Dec 2016
    • Pan’s Labyrinth
    • The Visitor by Josephine Poole
    • Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
  • Nov 2016
    • The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
    • The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell
  • Oct 2016
    • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    • Stag Boy by William Rayner
  • Sep 2016
    • Timeslip
    • Electric Eden by Rob Young
  • Aug 2016
    • The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
    • Astercote, The Whispering Knights, The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively
  • Jul 2016
    • The Worm Ouroboros by E R Eddison
    • Frank Frazetta
    • The Loch Ness Monster
  • Jun 2016
    • The Atrocity Exhibition by J G Ballard
    • Living Alone by Stella Benson
  • May 2016
    • Night Visitors by Julia Briggs
    • The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
  • Apr 2016
    • Tales from Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
    • Mewsings began 10 years ago!
    • Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
    • The Television Crossover Universe podcast interview
  • Mar 2016
    • The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
    • The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
  • Feb 2016
    • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
    • The Adventures of Alyx by Joanna Russ
  • Jan 2016
    • Devil’s Tor by David Lindsay
    • Sky
    • H P Lovecraft's dark city muse
  • Dec 2015
    • Visions from Brichester by Ramsey Campbell
  • Nov 2015
    • Three Types of Ghost Story
    • Mary Rose by J M Barrie
    • The Fantasy Reader
  • Oct 2015
    • The Prisoner
    • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
    • More updates
    • Peeping Tom
  • Sep 2015
    • Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
    • The Omega Factor
  • Aug 2015
    • The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock
    • The Outsider by Colin Wilson
  • Jul 2015
    • A new look, and other updates
    • Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
    • High-Rise by J G Ballard
  • Jun 2015
    • The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany
    • Pinhead & The Scarlet Gospels
  • May 2015
    • Dragon Under the Hill by Gordon Honeycombe
    • Twin Peaks
    • Neither the Sea nor the Sand by Gordon Honeycombe
  • Apr 2015
    • Space: 1999, Series 1
    • The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
  • Mar 2015
    • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  • Feb 2015
    • The Night-Watchmen by Helen Cresswell
    • A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
  • Jan 2015
    • Stepping from the Shadows by Patricia McKillip
    • Modern Fantasy by C N Manlove
  • Dec 2014
    • Yes, You ARE A Monster
    • The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
    • The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
  • Nov 2014
    • Demons by Daylight by Ramsey Campbell
    • Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  • Oct 2014
    • The Laughing Ghost
    • An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman
    • The Language of the Night by Ursula K Le Guin
  • Sep 2014
    • Obsession by Ramsey Campbell
    • The War Films Podcast
    • Threshold by Ursula Le Guin
  • Aug 2014
    • Wizardry and Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock
    • Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
    • The Crystal World by J G Ballard
    • The Conversation
  • Jul 2014
    • Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
    • Marianne Dreams and Paperhouse
  • Jun 2014
    • The Damned
    • The Insanity of Jones and other tales by Algernon Blackwood
  • May 2014
    • Jirel of Joiry by C L Moore
    • The Thing
  • Apr 2014
    • The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
    • Cat Girl
  • Mar 2014
    • Picnic at Hanging Rock
    • The Cold Flame by James Reeves
    • IT by William Mayne
  • Feb 2014
    • A Game of Dark by William Mayne
    • The Moon Stallion
  • Jan 2014
    • Secret Gardens by Humphrey Carpenter, Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschläger
    • Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings
  • Dec 2013
    • John Wyndham and The Catastrophe of Cosiness
    • The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
    • The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
  • Nov 2013
    • What is Doctor Who?
    • "David Lindsay's The Violet Apple" in Wormwood 21
    • Oliver Onions' Ghost Stories
  • Oct 2013
    • It's easy to summon a demon
    • I Walked with a Zombie
    • Curse of the Cat People
    • Cat People
  • Sep 2013
    • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
    • William Gibson's Alien3
  • Aug 2013
    • Neuromancer by William Gibson
    • Hawkwind 1976-1979: The Calvert Years
  • Jul 2013
    • IT by Stephen King
    • The Earliest English Poems, translated & edited by Michael Alexander
  • Jun 2013
    • Hawkwind 1970-1975
    • Skallagrigg by William Horwood
    • Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • May 2013
    • Salem's Lot, the 1979 TV mini-series
    • Star Wars day...
  • Apr 2013
    • Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
    • Carmilla, and other spooky writings, by J S Le Fanu
  • Mar 2013
    • Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake
    • Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
    • Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
  • Feb 2013
    • Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
    • Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
  • Jan 2013
    • Peter Pan and Wendy
    • Jacob's Ladder
  • Dec 2012
    • New Grub Street by George Gissing
  • Nov 2012
    • DC Comics' Sword of Sorcery
    • Happy birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Edward Gorey
  • Oct 2012
    • Two Faerie Novels
    • Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
  • Sep 2012
    • Boneland by Alan Garner
    • Thursbitch by Alan Garner
    • Strandloper by Alan Garner
    • Faeries by Brian Froud & Alan Lee
    • The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner
  • Aug 2012
    • Red Shift by Alan Garner
    • Elidor by Alan Garner
  • Jul 2012
    • Weaveworld by Clive Barker
    • The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner
  • Jun 2012
    • The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
    • Prometheus
    • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  • May 2012
    • Conan the Hero
    • Why I Like... Doctor Who
  • Apr 2012
    • Drive & Tyrannosaur
    • Videodrome
    • The Rainbow Orchid volume 3 out tomorrow
  • Mar 2012
    • The Owl Service by Alan Garner
    • Alice at R'lyeh on YouTube
    • Mills & Barsoom
  • Feb 2012
    • The Realm of Lost Things in ASIM 53, and Gene Wolfe being honoured
    • Fallacies of Wonderland
    • Dragonslayer
  • Jan 2012
    • A letter between writers
    • That Alien Aesthetic
    • Le Morte Darthur
  • Dec 2011
    • Should we bowdlerize Lovecraft?
    • 1Q84
  • Nov 2011
    • Disney's Robin Hood
    • Why I Like... Theodore Sturgeon (in three stories)
  • Oct 2011
    • Toby - a Halloween rhyme
    • To Live Again by Robert Silverberg
    • Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson
  • Sep 2011
    • Full Fathom Forty
    • Lovecraftian Doctor Who
    • Strange Evil by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Aug 2011
    • The Big Sleep
    • Robin of Sherwood
    • Moving Zen by C W Nicol
  • Jul 2011
    • Flow and story
    • Full Fathom Forty lineup
    • Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland
    • The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken
    • The Film That Changed My Life, by Robert K Elder
    • Children of the Stones
  • Jun 2011
    • Count Dracula (1977)
    • 40th Birthday Giveaway!
    • The Terror & Drood by Dan Simmons
    • LA Noire
  • May 2011
    • The Adventure Films Podcast
    • What's the point of Renfield?
    • Two more Doctors
    • The Wicker Man
    • Unknown Magazine
  • Apr 2011
    • The Usborne Book of the Future
    • The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
    • "A Night as a Scarecrow" in BFS Journal, Spring 2011
    • "So you're my replacements! A dandy and a clown!"
  • Mar 2011
    • In which I track down intelligent life
    • Spock
    • Flashman, and other reprobates
    • What books do best
  • Feb 2011
    • A Plague of Scanspellos
    • Matt Fox's Wendigo
    • Star Trek
    • "Zathotha" in Cyäegha issue 4
    • Arthur Machen's The White People, Jo Walton's Among Others
  • Jan 2011
    • The Magician's Book by Laura Miller
    • Michael Powell's Wizard of Earthsea
    • In which I mingle with rock stars and academics...
    • BioShock 1 & 2
    • Tom Baker's other doctor
  • Dec 2010
    • Who cares what characters in books look like?
    • The Films That Time Forgot
  • Nov 2010
    • Lovecraft Black & White
    • Farewell, Book & Magazine Collector
    • Michael Moorcock's Doctor Who novel — The Coming of the Terraphiles
    • Tom Baker's Rasputin
  • Oct 2010
    • Teach Yourself Terror!
    • Dean Spanley
    • The Clash of the Clash of the Titans
    • Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde
    • Fantasy Music
  • Sep 2010
    • Bob Johnson & Pete Knight's The King of Elfland's Daughter
    • The Roar of Love
    • The Secret to Reading Gene Wolfe
  • Aug 2010
    • The Devil Had a Mobile Phone
    • The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly by David Lindsay
    • Witch Wood by John Buchan
    • Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
    • The Indifferent Beast
  • Jul 2010
    • The Alice at R'lyeh Report, part 2
    • Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
    • The Alice at R'lyeh Report, part 1
  • Jun 2010
    • The Doctor Who Adventure Game - City of the Daleks
    • Sunglider
  • May 2010
    • Goodbye, South Bank Show!
    • Trying not to be a collector of David Lindsay
    • A boy called Sue and a boy called Yellow
    • Marginalia
    • Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
  • Apr 2010
    • And sometimes balloons go pop...
    • House (the Japanese film, not the US TV series)
    • What makes a damned good read?
    • The Changes
    • Brighton Shock! World Horror Convention 2010
  • Mar 2010
    • Me & Horror: Proper Horror Novels At Last
    • Me & Horror: Three Attempts at Dennis Wheatley
    • Me & Horror: Lovecraft
    • Me & Horror: My first horror story
    • Me & Horror: Why I didn't read it
    • Conspiracy '87
    • A novel is a sequence of words, one after the other — how do you improve on that?
  • Feb 2010
    • Alice at R'lyeh for your ears
    • The Transformation of E F Benson
  • Jan 2010
    • Stephen Fry and Alan Moore: They Got Rhythm
    • Seeing Things by Oliver Postgate
  • Nov 2009
    • Colin Wilson
    • Elric versus Dalek
  • Oct 2009
    • When do you give up reading a book?
    • King of the Castle
    • Alice at R'lyeh
  • Sep 2009
    • BSG: The Final Question
    • Why I Like... Alfred Hitchcock
    • Gnomic verses (part 2)
  • Aug 2009
    • Why I like... Clark Ashton Smith
    • Gnomic verses
    • The Rainbow Orchid book launch
  • Jul 2009
    • Anvil — The Story of Anvil
    • Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Three-Dimensional Labyrinth
    • Vampires, vampires everywhere...
    • What adventures they'll have...
    • Queen's Queen II
    • Hawkwind's Chronicle of the Black Sword
  • Jun 2009
    • Uriah Heep's The Magician's Birthday
    • Mandalaband's The Eye of Wendor
    • Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow
    • Pixie Post, or Phantasy Philately
    • ElvenQuest and Krod Mandoon
  • Feb 2008
    • Mister B Gone by Clive Barker
    • J G Ballard
  • Jan 2008
    • Citymusic
  • Nov 2007
    • On Re-Reading Books
    • Spacewreck moved, Citymusic coming
  • Oct 2007
    • Not dead but sleeping... and stirring...
  • Aug 2007
    • Flicker by Theodore Roszak
  • Jul 2007
    • Heroes and Shaggy Dogs
    • Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
    • Little Miss Sunshine & The Host
  • Jun 2007
    • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
    • Tideland
    • The Future Goes Bleep
    • In Search of a Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada
  • May 2007
    • The Angry Years by Colin Wilson
    • M Night Shyamalan's The Lady in the Water
    • The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
  • Apr 2007
    • Whistle Down The Wind
    • Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
    • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
    • The Bookshop, or two of them anyway
  • Mar 2007
    • Hype by Robert Calvert
    • The Blue Öyster Cult
  • Feb 2007
    • Two Films About Childhood
    • Shadow of the Colossus
    • Circulus
    • The Innocents
  • Dec 2006
    • A literary anecdote (not mine)
    • Murakami noodling
    • Fantastic Planet
  • Nov 2006
    • The Prestige
    • Persian Fire by Tom Holland
  • Oct 2006
    • Haze
    • Joe Meek: I Hear A New World
  • Sep 2006
    • Kwaidan
    • The Creature from the Blue Lagoon
    • Lord of War
  • Aug 2006
    • MirrorMask
    • Ico
    • The Flaming Lips: Zaireeka
    • Alan Moore: The Complete Future Shocks
    • The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
    • Tony Takitani
  • Jul 2006
    • Zathura
    • Capote, The Libertine, Munich
    • William Gibson's Burning Chrome
    • DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
    • The Sun
    • Pulse
    • Sophie Scholl
  • Jun 2006
    • My rant about the new series of Doctor Who
    • Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
    • Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black
    • A Rough Guide to Asian Horror
  • May 2006
    • Stuart Gordon's Dreams in the Witch House
    • Godzilla
    • The Arctic Monkeys — Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    • The first time that ever I saw your face... hugger
    • Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
    • Broken Flowers
  • Apr 2006
    • George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London
    • Blue Jean Blues
    • John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns
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