The Lords Of Salem

My review of Rob Zombie's The Lords Of Salem is now up at This Is Horror.

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Film Reviews: Entity and I Didn't Come Here To Die

I have a couple of new film reviews up over at This Is Horror, for Bradley Scott Sullivan's blackly hilarious I Didn't Come Here To Die and Steve Stone's terrifying Entity. 

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A bundle of stuff- The Condemned, the Prestwich Book Festival, plus reviews of Maniac and 247 F

Hello all.  Today's a day for a few updates.

As you've probably noticed, The Condemned isn't out for you to buy and read/worship/line the budgie's cage with yet.  That's my fault; I've dawdled a bit on the final checks and rewrites.  The new collection should now be out around mid-May.  Will keep you all posted on that.

In other news, I shall be at the Prestwich Book Festival at the British Legion in Prestwich (near Heaton Park Metrolink Station, it says here) on the evening of Monday 27th May, to help promote Impossible Spaces, a new anthology from Hic Dragones, the good people who organised the Manchester Monster Convention last year.  Edited by Hannah Kate, it includes my story Trading Flesh.  Also present will be superb Manchester poet Rosie Garland, whose collection Things I Did While I Was Dead I discovered, and loved, last year, and whose novel, The Palace Of Curiosities, is out now
from HarperCollins.  Also present will be new author Toby Stone, and a bunch of contributors to the anthology.  Plus an honest to good cryptozoologist- a field I admit to being fascinated by.

I'll hopefully have some copies of The Faceless and The Condemned to flog and sign, too.

Finally, I have a couple of new film reviews up at This Is Horror: Franck Khalfoun's Maniac and Levan Bakhia and Beqa Jguburia's 247 F.

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Wanting The Dusk

As you may remember, until quite recently this blog was a wee bit on the quiet side. I mentioned there'd been a few problems off-stage, which I might tell you about it should it be relevant.

Well, it is now, sort of.  The latest instalment of my Heretic Songs column over at This Is Horror explains why.

James Herbert, 1943-2013

James Herbert, author of novels such as The Rats, Lair, Domain, Haunted, The Magic Cottage and many others, died suddenly this week, aged 69.

His death came as a great shock to many readers and writers of horror fiction- he'd been a constant presence on the scene since the late '70s, and an influence on many contemporary authors.  Many tributes have been paid to him: mine is up over at This Is Horror if you'd like to read it.

Film Review: The Bay

My review of Barry Levinson's horror film, The Bay, is now up at This Is Horror.

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Grimm Up North: Sleep Tight and Snowtown

Last month I went to Grimm Up North's double bill of Jaume Balaguero's blackly funny Sleep Tight and Justin Kurzel's bleak, uncompromising Snowtown at the Dancehouse in Manchester- two very different, but excellent, psychological horror films.  The reviews are now up over at This Is Horror.

Here's the trailer for Sleep Tight:

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And here's the one for Snowtown:

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