Please join us over at the Horror Christmas Calendar for my own contribution, "Never Again" (read by David Court). Huge content warnings: I wrote it in a particular frame of mind. A holly-jolly Christmas it is not. youtu.be/8-_jK2uaxnE?...

Please join us this Christmas night for @timescarcass.bsky.social 's superb contribution to the Horror Christmas Calendar, Medusa: youtu.be/qUuDc4I7lsI?...

The audiobook of my new Christmas ghost story, read by @elliotchapman.bsky.social, is up over at @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social's channel. youtu.be/qUuDc4I7lsI?...

A happy Christmas Eve to you all! Tonight, the Horror Christmas Calendar presents: HannahDoll, by @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social (read by Lex Jones): youtu.be/S_qgRJEWLic?...

This evening's offering from The Horror Christmas Calendar is: How To Make Gingerbread For Your Family, by @kitwhitfield.bsky.social, read by @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social: youtu.be/zT8itq1H8ZI?...

The first entry in the Horror Christmas Calendar features The Witch's Yule, by Matthew Brockmeyer, read by @kitwhitfield.bsky.social youtu.be/EmokkVTXWT4?...

May be a bit absent from the social media for a while. Been having some mental health issues this year and recent world events have not helped. Pulling back to recollect, muster some energy and get myself back on an even keel. Stay well, take care of each other and much, much love.

Please join Kayleigh Dobbs and I as we discuss Folk Horror and various other subjects in our latest chat. youtu.be/Wj1iGbOpA88?...

Please join @wolfkang1.bsky.social and myself for our latest discussion on the Alien series, with a specific focus on Alien: Earth. youtu.be/RY8Lf0g3MaA?...

If you operate in horror in any capacity and you fancy having a chat about the subject, come and join me over at Our Lives In Horror! Drop me a message or a response below and let's set something up. youtube.com/@alternative...

Nice to have a little levity in what is otherwise a deeply dark tale. youtu.be/rfh-TDceiiE?...

*Cough* Born in Blood Volumes 1 and 2 *Cough* ghoulish.rip/product/born... ghoulish.rip/product/born...

I'm fairly well-versed in obscure video game horror, but I've never heard of this: A peculiar piece never released outside of Japan, from the same talent that brought us Clocktower. youtu.be/TMrL8nKJGQw?...

A look at Guillermo del Toro's recent adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. youtu.be/BzIbQCQTjrQ?...

Working on a "My Life in Horror" article discussing the seminal 1984 British film, Threads (if you know, you know). To say that it's currently "going to places" is an understatement.

Continuing our deep-dive into classic UK children's show, Knightmare, Strange Playgrounds takes a look at the much more experimental second series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=twaB...

Andy Serkis as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Renoir may be the most brilliant performance in the history of the medium. When the writing's this brilliant, it deserves nothing less.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Haven't cried so much owing to a video game for a long, long time.

Arbitor Ian just gets this setting down to its marrow. He's certainly one of the most considered and erudite voices out there in 40K spaces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqcv...

If you want a taste of the kinds of stories I write, please check out the Strange Playgrounds blog. Lots of stories and scraps of poetry available over there. Looking at bringing it back more consistently in the new year. www.strangeplaygrounds.com/blog/previou...

An episode of The Fluffenhammer in which Adam Nicol and myself discuss metaphysics in the Warhammer 40K universe and Age of Sigmar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzu...

Woah. And that's only the standard ending. There are at least three more. To say I'm shocked they managed to bring it home is an understatement. Silent Hill is back, and arguably smarter, deeper, more transgressive than it ever was. youtu.be/Ztrt0xPRuJI?...

For the Sunday morning crowd, an enthusiastic retrospective on series 1 of the iconic UK series, Knightmare. youtu.be/OOE8aAcH0kQ?...

A bit of heady nostalgia for this Halloween evening: A look at the first series of a children's show that enthralled -and traumatised- a generation here in the UK: Knightmare. youtu.be/OOE8aAcH0kQ?...

Re-watching the TV adaptaion of Dan Simmons's The Terror for the first time in quite a few years. Not only had I forgotten what an insanely brilliant production it is, but also how harrowingly bleak. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIr...

It was bleak and psychologically troubling before. Now it's going places I sincerely did not anticipate. Hooray for the return of the smart, incisive, transgressive Silent Hill game. youtu.be/aBDDcVNHdzc?...

Both my Mother and my boss have read my work. Seriously don't know how to feel about that. www.strangeplaygrounds.com www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...

You need to watch this. I only saw it for the first time last year, and I'm still not over it. This was broadcast into UK homes at prime-time during 1974, as a "Play For Today."

One of the most moronic arguments I've come across from Reform cultists goes something like: "The Tories screwed us over, Labour are screwing us over. Let's give Nigel Farage a chance!"

Trumpism is fascism but it is post-ideological fascism, fascism as pure form, emptied of content. To the extent it has any content, it is hopeless, despairing, vengeful nihilism. This is fascism as it appears after the neoliberal cultural counter-revolution reduced politics to process & structure.

Hard to beat The Thief of Always as a Halloween read. youtu.be/W9OR9MavQEE?...

"It's less about what they believe and more about what they can get the cult to believe." Got it in one. It doesn't matter how contradictory, absurd, incoherent or flat-out false their statements evidently are. It's never mattered.

... @gnofhorror.com hear from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social on the impact Barker's Weaveworld had on him, @crimereads.bsky.social select ten horrors which take place on means of transport, & @horrortree.com hear from @angelaslatter.bsky.social on writing fear through grief! Happy reading, friends!🎃

Good morning, my lovelies, it's the start of a new week and the start of my October holiday. To kick off a week of horror, we have a review of Pyres by Kev Harrison. gnofhorror.com/pyres-by-kev... @kevharrison.bsky.social

Please join myself and Kayleigh Dobbs as we almost, sorta, kinda get to our chat about Stephen King 😅 youtu.be/LBB8lj3Rim4?...

I can't begin to express how intimidated I was to sit down and write this: Weaveworld may be THE most important book of my life; it changed so, so much when I originally came by it at the age of 11.

I'm sharing this again because I think it's absolutely necessary people understand what this vile, abusive, cruel, fraudulent cult is actually up to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5TL...

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury

It's quite explicitly about patriarchy, defying prescribed gender norms etc. As such, and in drearily predictable fashion, it's got the usual crop of insincere, reactionary, grifting chuds foaming at the mouth. Which is one of the most ringing endorsements I can give. youtu.be/KMbBykcYvCE?...

Also, for the similarly perverse in that they're up and about this time on a Sunday morning, @kitgonzo.bsky.social and I discuss what might be the knock-out horror film of the year: youtu.be/gqwphOUFZh8?...

Was originally quite dubious about this: I wasn't sure how you could uproot Silent Hill from its USA setting and make it work (the games thus far have been so specifically American in nature). youtu.be/lBmWw86-2hw?...

The latest episode of What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? In which myself and Kit Power deep-dive into the incredible meditation on abuse that is Bring Her Back. youtu.be/gqwphOUFZh8?...

"All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering. I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch." - Dr. Sam Weizak, The Dead Zone.

"It's a cult operating as a business masquerading as a religion." It's also a hive of domestic and child abuse, stalking, harassment and a gigantic, money-grubbing, land-grabbing con. Those at the highest levels are evident and overt frauds and abusers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5TL...

Sylvester hands: "What's the threshold?" Lord Fear: "It's a doorstep, Hands. It's especially designed for wiping dirty feet on. It's a bit like your face, Hands."

Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror. It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview gnofhorror.com/when-horror-... 💙📚 🩸📚

Spay-ace!

If you haven't read MOBY DICK I think it's easy to be like "oh there are some passages that can mistakenly be read in a homoerotic or homoromantic light" and then you read it and Ishmael is like "from that moment on Queequeg and I were a married couple that is in love"

What The Hell Is Wrong With Us?, in which myself and @kitgonzo.bsky.social discuss various articles of culture and media that have made a significant impact on us, will return next weekend with a deep-dive into the seminal -but deeply unsettling- Bring Her Back. youtu.be/MD1Y94LiOrE?...