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Film Review: Conan the Barbarian
When I first saw notice of Conan the Barbarian, I laughed. I honest-to-God laughed. I didn’t expect much from it. That feeling stuck when I was going into the cinema. I was... -
Review: UNDEAD by Kirsty McKay
First up, the official blurb: It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay... -
The Warlock – Review
What do you get when you take figures from history, ancient figures from mythology, magic and prophecy and throw them all together? Most of the time, nothing. Michael Scott,... -
Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide
A year ago a new editor joined Oxford University Press. She was young, energetic, full of enthusiasm and on the lookout for the first book which she could fall in love with. Then... -
Book Review: Hush Hush
I have a confession to make. When I picked this book off my pile of review books my heart sunk. First off, I’d scanned the promotional material and knew it was yet another high... -
The Monstrumologist: The Terror...
Now, there’s horror that is scary, and there’s horror that is stomach-churning. This first volume in the Monstrumologist series is both. It deals, by means of supposed... -
Book Review: The Zombie Cookbook
I once had a friend tell me that, when evaluating cookbooks, it’s important to not expect every recipe to be of interest to you, and that there can be a cookbook that you... -
Book Review: Leviathan
As ‘what-ifs’ go for the starting point of a novel sequence, this one’s a doosie. Assume that Darwin not only came up with natural selection but that he also pre-empted... -
Book Review: Dark Visions
Dark Visions by L.J.Smith comprises three novels, The Strange Power, The Possessed and The Passion, all of which were originally published back in the mid 1990s. Now they have... -
Book Review: Mr Mumbles (Invisible...
I read Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles on the train to a children’s writers’ event in London and then on the way back again, and so engrossed was I that I had to carry on whilst...
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