It was a shock to hear of the death a couple of days of ago of Christopher Fowler, a much loved and admired genre writer, who became more...

The latest Interzone, and the first from MYY Press, edited by Gareth Jelley. The UK's longest running Science Fiction magazine has a new...

I'm thrilled to have a new story, Highway 29, inspired by the track from Bruce Springsteen's classic Ghost of Tom Joad album, coming soon...

I've been rereading some of the stories in Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking Dangerous Visions anthology and came across Philip K. Dick's...

Candescent Blooms could hardly have been better chosen as a title for this latest collection from Andrew Hook (Frequencies of Existence,...

I'm delighted to announce that a new story, 'Highway 29' will appear in the Andrew Hook edited anothology of new crime fiction, Bang, due...

But something more - maybe the best SF show on TV right now. Judging from the critical response to the first two episodes of Prime's new...

by Naben Ruthnum I wish I could say that I enjoyed this short novella more than I did. It's published by Undertow, usually a pretty sure...

*contains spoilers Both Mexican Gothic and The Only Good Indians have been on my 'to read' list for the last year or so. I had been...

I've added a story to the fiction page. Originally written back in 1997, this is one I sold to Thomas Roche for an anthology series...

This weekend, I finished reading Daniel Mills' haunting piece of American Gothic, Moriah, from Zagava Press. You can read my thoughts on...

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo da Vinci. Spoiler alert. This post is about...

Mackenzie Davis as Kirsten Over the last couple of months I’ve watched two highly lauded series, both based on award winning novels, one...

Featuring a review of my novella Pervert Blood. Over at at the Gestalt Real Time Reviews, Des Lewis has reviewed the latest issue of...

I've added the above story to the fiction pages of the site. I've long been a fan of art in general and modern art in particular. I'm...

My apologies, but this piece contains spoilers. Got back Friday from a visit to San Francisco to see family living out there. One of the...

The winter double issue of the new digest sized Black Static is out now, and it contains my new novella, Pervert Blood. Before I speak...

"Rarely has the appearance of the fantastic in a story been so brutally curtailed. It’s a fitting end to this exploration of the...

A few weeks back I read this evocative and profound meditation on memory and forgetting, on the nature of stories, especially those we...

My review of Campbell's latest collection of short stories from PS Publishing is live now at Horrified Magazine. "There is little solace...