I am pleased to announce Dark Holme Publishing has accepted my short story “Strung Up” for inclusion in the upcoming anthology Ethereal Nightmares: The Final Awakening. Most of my short stories have speculative elements, “Strung Up” is one of the few that does not. Dark and nasty, it’s a horror story about a young woman…
Last Saturday, I submitted my short story “In the Dark” to the Creepy Podcast, and got a rapid acceptance–I received the email on Wednesday. It’s always a pleasant surprise when a story is accepted. In this case I was doubly surprised because, as most writers will tell you, with most short story markets, getting a…
West Country Tales is a TV series that was first aired in 1983. It ran for two series, and there were 14 episodes in total. Each episode was around 25 minutes long. The first series was allegedly based on true stories submitted in response to a request made by the BBC. Most of them had…
A few days ago, while I was browsing YouTube, a suggested video caught my eye. It was an episode of The Owl Service. I was unfamiliar with the title, but something about it intrigued me. Perhaps it was the unusual name, but YouTube presented it to me as part of a list suggestions that predominantly…
Late Night Horror was a BBC TV series that had a short run on British TV in 1968. There were only six episodes produced, each of them 25 minutes long. All but one of them has been lost. The series was cancelled after viewers complained about it. I knew nothing about Late Night Horror until…
Every now and a again when I am looking at submission guidelines I come across the phrase ‘steampunk’ and have never been too sure what it is. Today I did a spot of Googling and now have a better understanding of what may or may not be classed as steampunk. While I was surfing I…
Christopher Lee is 91 today and still working hard. He still makes an average of three films each year and has already begun to fill his diary for 2014, when he will play Saruman in The Hobbit: There and Back Again. This year he marks his birthday by releasing a heavy metal album: Charlemagne: The…
I love the new IKEA “gnomes” advert. It could almost be scary if it wasn’t so funny. If you haven’t seen it, now is your chance . . .
I have been busy working on the site. One of the things I was not happy with was the blog so I have built a new Blog From The Darkside and this is it folks. Hope you like it. The old blog is not going anywhere though. I am leaving it up and if you…
I missed the last episode of Utopia, so I have just watched it on 4oD. It’s one the best series I have seen in a long time and I will miss it now it is finished. The way it ended they could easily make a second series, but there have been some complaints made to…