Chris Priestley (pictured above at a book festival last year) is the extremely talented author of the Tales of Terror series (Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship, and Tales of Terror from the Tunnel’s Mouth – plus the very rare The Teacher’s Tales of Terror for World Book Day […]
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury, PB, £6.99, out now) It is always an enjoyable thing to see a talented writer challenging himself with an ambitious project. Here we have an exceedingly talented writer doing just such a thing with Mister Creecher, his latest novel. It would have been very easy for the author to produce […]
Since I bought the game on its launch day on the 11th of November a lot of things have tried to get in the way of me playing Skyrim. I have started a new job, had a baby son to go with my 2 ½ year old daughter, done the Christmas thing and even moved […]
Embedded by Dan Abnett (published by Angry Robot, PB, 2012 *OUT NOW* £7.99) This is the author’s second novel for indie genre publisher Angry Robot, following on from the lauded alternate history swashbuckler, Triumff. Embedded is more akin to Abnett’s staple output of future war hijinks produced for Games Workshop’s publishing arm, the Black Library […]
As a director, Joe Dante will forever be associated with more recognisable achievements like Gremlins (1984), Explorers (1985) and The ‘Burbs (1989), but in 1993 he also made a wonderful little film which serves as both a celebration of the monster movies of his youth, and a biting satire of ’60s Cold War hysteria. Matinee […]
The British national tradition of Christmas ghost stories is something of which I was uttely ignorant until one December a couple of years ago, when a friend introduced me to the work of M. R. James. Widely regarded as being one of the finest writers of ghost stories in the English language, James would hold […]