Another favourite English-language horror film is Christopher Smith's Triangle (2009), starring Melissa George. For people who have already seen it, they should resist giving any description of the plot. Going into this one cold rewards the viewer tenfold. At least it did with me.

For one day only! Demain Publishing are offering free ebook copies of my fifth collection, Distant Frequencies. So, if you've ever been curious about my fiction, now is the perfect time to grab yourself a copy. www.amazon.co.uk/Distant-Freq...

I'm currently looking for more reviewers for my upcoming collection, We Take Them When You're Not Looking, due out from Uncomfortably Dark Horror in March 2026. If anyone is interested, DM me, and I'll send a PDF copy. Many thanks. A bit more info about me in the comments section:

Demain Publishing will be launching a 'Free eBook Day' for my collection, Distant Frequencies. You can get the book on the following date: Distant Frequencies – 7th September 2025.

In October, Uncomfortably Dark Horror and I'll be kicking off the promotional build-up to my sixth collection, We Take Them When You're Not Looking. I've a request for any reviewers interested in an advance PDF copy. If anyone would like one, just DM me, and I'll send one out. Many thanks.

Lauren Beukes has to be one of the most imaginative genre writers of her generation. Her novel The Shining Girls, like Zoo City and Broken Monsters, is so finely calibrated on every level, it's like peering into the back of a Swiss luxury watch and admiring how it all comes together.

Locked, a remake of the Argentinian film 4 x 4. It looks great, the camera work is fantastic, and the script is tight as a snare drum. Despite a limited amount of space to move around, the story excels because of Bill Skarsgård's stellar performance, and Anthony Hopkins is a pure joy.

This morning it's an Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree kind of day.

My band are making their tri-monthly pilgrimage to Warsaw next weekend. I've alerted the city to their impending arrival – imagine the stargate scene in 2001, and then multiply that tenfold. Our mission: to undo the space-time continuum and to defy all earthly expectations.

The Resurrection Children. Set in Liverpool during the coldest winter on record, a young teacher searches for his missing sister. Pitted against a supernatural entity and a serial killer, the question is how far will he go to uncover the truth?

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Warsaw.

The face hovered above the pavement with a disorienting horizontal flatness. There was a gradual right-hand rotation of the neck, a clockwork key was turning and lengthening the trapezius muscles. How could they maintain the position without toppling forward? They Cannot Know Until It Is Too Late

Simon Kurt Unsworth's latest book has arrived. A Gathering of the Morose, published by Black Shuck Books, is part of the micro-collection series Black Shuck Shadows.

I stood there, refusing to incriminate myself in whatever lurked behind her words, waiting for her to continue. She turned to somebody I could barely see, a figure in the smoke behind her—someone unanchored, somebody whose mouth opened and closed in soundless agreement. The No Longer Lost

This is an excerpt/sentence from a novel I have yet to submit. Like your teenage nephew, whose anxiety has resurfaced to alarming levels, emanating out of him like a warning to stay away, here lies human radioactivity. Interior Lives

The river was perfect at distracting me from my late-night wanderings, a cliché that I enjoyed and one which I played with consummate ease. Mountains of Smoke

His eyes searched the misted surface beyond, where lifebuoys tipped back and forth like a dozen disembodied heads in unison to the metrical lapping of the waves against their round metal bodies. The Resurrection Children (Demain Publishing).

Paul Tremblay's best novel yet.

Reread: It's been a decade since one of my favourite biographies was published, Jolly Lad by John Doran. Available from Strange Attractor Press and Amazon.

A wailing banshee of outrage, vulnerability wielded like a sledgehammer. Interior Lives: Four Walls

I revamped an old trailer and outtake from my short film Response Time to accompany a story from my upcoming sixth collection, We Take Them When You're Not Looking, due out in March 2026 from Uncomfortably Dark Horror.

The man surveyed the night sky with guarded eyes, his tangled grey beard trailing the vast spectacle of his immense torso as he walked across the heath with heavy, squelching strides, enormous steel-capped work boots sinking into the mud and lavender.

Alan and his father had walked this route so many times that hundreds of conversations threatened to resurface. Dead plant life floated across the water like decaying archipelagos, organic bridges of rotting matter.

A free river taxi across the Vistula.

Birthday presents ahoy!

She’d expected Eric’s vagueness to have abducted the city of its remaining inhabitants, but as she descended into the underground, she saw that the train was still there. The Caretakers (The Trains Will Take You there)

A wailing banshee of outrage, vulnerability wielded like a sledgehammer. Interior Lives: Four Walls

Blast from the past! A poster for my band's first gig in April 2006. Entrance - 5 zloty.

Huge congratulations to Laird Barron on winning a Stoker Award. Great news. And if you've never read any Laird Barron, then check him out, he's one of the best. lairdbarron.wordpress.com

Here's the link to my author/amateur filmmaking YouTube Channel - I always feel daft saying "my channel" - where I have recently uploaded a link to the improved version of my short film, Response Time.

This is the YouTube link to my band's mini-documentary, which contains six rehearsal songs as well as some short clips of us in and around Warsaw.

He cupped her upturned face; it slid between his palms, and Tony, staring, thought Donny was going to pull back the flesh from the nape of the neck, revealing the one underneath, the one on camera, a mask. The Placement of Characters

Middle-aged men and women chaperoned their elderly parents into rooms whose bare walls intimated the vast emptiness of what they represented. We Take Them When You're Not Looking (my upcoming collection We Take Them When You're Not Looking due out in March 2026 from Uncomfortably Dark Horror).

Local park reading time.

I started my first Italo Calvino book yesterday. My only regret, I wish I hadn't taken this long to read him.

Starless and Bible Black is a collection of short stories by Susan York, published by the excellent Midnight Street Press. Highly recommended (see Amazon and Goodreads for a full review).

Lightning in a bottle.

Seventy years ago, at the height of the Blitz, she’d often envisaged herself as a fragile old woman with a complicated past of relationships. That future had felt eerily inconceivable because of where the war was leading them. Hungry Celluloid

It was as if, whenever he turned his back, the cityscape were shifting like studio scenery, an intermittent bout of dislocation further accentuated by the brooding monolith. City-End

From my band's last weekend rehearsal, only a practice song (hence the echoing quality - it was live) , but one we really, really like. Another Layer of Truth. Video: Waldek Koźba being the very definition of this band.

Some of my books including one novel, five collections, and three novelettes collected in the same volume.

It's been just over a year since the passing of one of my favourite writers, Paul Auster. Auster is one of the very few writers whose work I regularly reread. I'm currently halfway through his memoir, Report From The Interior, which I started a few days ago. Raise a glass to a true original.

A film that I regularly return to is Christopher McQuarrie's modern-day western Way of the Gun, which stars Ryan Phillippe and Benicio del Toro as two morally corrupt, low-end career criminals who kidnap a pregnant woman (Juliette Lewis).

Abel Ferrara's 1993 inspired remake of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). "So, where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere, 'cause there's no one like you left."

The Order is an outstanding crime drama with one foot set in the filmmaking era of the 1970s. Justin Kurzel once again proves his credentials as one of the best directors in the business. Starring Jude Law opposite Nicholas Hoult, both of whom turn in blistering performances. On Amazon Prime now.

I was fourteen years old when I first read Stephen King's The Long Walk, which was published along with Rage, The Running Man, and Roadwork all in one volume (The Bachman Books), under his short-lived Richard Bachman pseudonym.

The TV series Sapphire & Steel ran for four seasons (1979 - 1982) on the ITV network and it scared the living daylights out of me. So... "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile."

I admire this film on so many levels, and was particularly impressed by the portrait of a working-class family, who, for once, are free of the usual Hollywood stereotypes and clichés. I can't wait for the sequel.

This is a book that contains hard science with themes that dwarf humanity to the point of grains of sand. And yet it is strangely uplifting, moving, and rewarding.