Doesn’t time fly when you are busy? I haven’t posted in over a week now. I just never had the time because I have been very busy in the kitchen with my spirit level, my t-square and assorted other tools. Jobs needed doing, I had to do them (or pay someone else to do them…
J K. Rowling.com – A Very Flash Site
I was looking up something about J K. Rowling the other day and followed a link to her website. After I had chosen the language that I wanted to view the site in, I was transferred to the main index page. Wow! What a visual site. Very fancy. It took me a little while to…
Getting to Grips with Guy N. Smith Crabs Books
Last week I read Crab’s Moon by Guy N. Smith. It is a strange book because the story runs alongside that of the first crabs book, Night of the Crabs. I have never read a book like this before. Usually books follow on, not run alongside. I actually bought Crab’s Moon first, but when I…
The Mist
I just found a link to a trailer for Stephen King’s The Mist. It looks pretty good. I remember reading the story in King’s Skeleton Crew anthology and enjoying it immensely. I’ve done some checking and found out that the story was originally printed in a 1980 anthology called Dark Forces (mixed authors). I see…
Last week I read Stephen King’s Christine. It’s the second time I’ve read it. The last time was 20 years ago. When I realized it was that long ago it made me feel kind of old. Anyway, if you’ve seen the John Carpenter film that’s based on the book, but never actually read the book,…
My copy of Prism (the newsletter of The British Fantasy Society) arrived this week. I can’t say that I always read it from cover to cover – sometimes I do, and sometimes I don’t. But I always read Mark Morris‘ column, The Mark of Fear. In this issue he opens up his column with what…
It doesn’t seem like five minutes since I finished reading the first of Stephen King’s Dark Tower stories, The Gunslinger. I decided then that I was going to read them all, but when I finally got around to breaking the spine on the second book, last week, I was surprised to realize that it had…
They’re Here!
My wife passed me one of her magazines the other day. “Read that,” she said pointing at the page. So I did. It was an article about the Poltergeist films. I thought it was very interesting. According to the article there are a lot of people who believe that all three of the films were…
They’re Here!
My wife passed me one of her magazines the other day. “Read that,” she said pointing at the page. So I did. It was an article about the Poltergeist films. I thought it was very interesting. According to the article there are a lot of people who believe that all three of the films were…
Last week I read Christopher Pike’s Weekend and Christopher Fowler’s Roofworld. Weekend was okay. It was an entertaining read, but my favourite out of the two books was, most definitely Roofworld. It is the first time that I have read anything written by Christopher Fowler, but I saw the book in my local bookshop and…