by admin | Jul 20, 2025 | The Writing Life
It’s Saturday afternoon/evening, and the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards for, and I quote, “outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic” have just been awarded at Readercon 34 in Boston. Here they are… The ones...
by admin | Jul 17, 2025 | Reading Matters
The ‘better’ is his storytelling, style, unexpected plotting, and startling characters. The ‘worse’ is the depth and complexity he achieves just keeps getting more effective and disturbing with each story. I’ve been a Nat Cassidy fan since Steal the Stars, the truly...
by admin | Jun 6, 2025 | News of the Weird
Straight from the creators of Welcome to Night Vale, with surprises all its own. Welcome to Night Vale started as a strange little fiction podcast a few years back has grown into an international business all its own, with best-selling books and after-shows and merch...
by admin | Feb 8, 2025 | What's Worth Watching
The only (and most interesting) thing about it is the inexplicable appearance of Richard Dreyfuss – in a shark movie, ffs. Yes, that Richard Dreyfuss. I’ve lost count of the number of ‘maritime women in jeopardy’ movies I’ve seen over the years (the first, I think,...
by admin | Nov 2, 2024 | Listen Up
A charming weeky reminder of why we started listening to podcasts in the first place. I confess, I have a soft spot in my heart – and head – for Australians. Never been down unhah, and probably will never get there, but Ozies have been plaguing me for nigh on to fifty...
