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I’m not sure what the reasoning is behind this, but apparantly Steven Spielberg is busy developing a new social network where people will be able to get together online and share tales of their experiences with the supernatural and/or extraterrestrial. If you want to read a little more about this HERE IS A LINK

I recently downloaded the free DivX player because I was curious to see what the quality was like if I watched something that had been recorded in the DivX format. I was pretty impressed. When I downloaded the player a few other things came with it. One of them was an internet shortcut for Stage6….

My laptop has been getting a lot slower over the past few months and it has been rather annoying. I have Norton Antivirus installed and I swear by it, for stopping viruses. It is not so good when it comes to spyware though, and so I have also installed a specialist spyware remover and it…

I don’t seem to have a lot of time for my blog at the moment. I have been working at least 12 hours a day for the past couple of weeks and the only day off I had was Christmas Day. It’s looking like I won’t get another one until next week. I’m not moaning,…

Yuletide visitors to The Travellers Rest at Brough, Derbyshire, might have the opportunity to see Christmas spirits in a whole new light, because the pub is reputably haunted by the ghost of a farm girl. The poor girl was the recipient of unwanted advances one Christmas Eve, and while trying to fend off a love-struck…

I haven’t done a great deal of posts lately and I am very aware that I haven’t done any posts that could be deemed as being of a spooky nature for quite some time. Where has all of the dark stuff gone from Blog from the Darkside? This is no good at all. I’ve had…

I have just found out that one of my stories has been shortlisted for Read by Dawn 3. This is the second time that one of my stories has made their shortlist, one made the shortlist, last year, for Read by Dawn 2. I’ve got my fingers crossed that this year the story will actually…

I recently got sent a link and, because it amused me, I think I will share it. The link leads to a poem by A K. Shreck. The poem is about writing and is called If I Only Had A Year and it is at its best when sung to the tune of If I…

Last week I read Cujo. I have been meaning to get around to reading it for a while because I remember reading in King’s book On Writing that he can barely remember writing Cujo because he was drinking so heavily at the time. I’ll tell you what that man can write better drunk than most…