My copy was supplied for review; spoilers follow I reviewed Julian Payne's previous work Harvest, co-written with partner Zoe Elkins, a few years ago for Horrified magazine. I said then that I looked forward to seeing what they'd do next. I have my answer here, in this gorgeous - and sizeable - graphic novel by … Continue reading Review: “What The Tide Reveals” by Julian Payne (2025)
I love Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu1). It's a monumental work, which I'm not going to attempt to summarise here, set in late 19th & early 20th century France, largely within the milieu of the Parisian upper classes, dealing primarily with time and memory but also adolescence, … Continue reading A month of not reading Proust
My copy was supplied for review. Warning: spoilers ahead Life is good for Jimmy Cochran. He’s a freelance journalist, investigating supernatural stories for a local paper in New York, is a successful comic illustrator, lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park, and in Sophia, has a fuck-buddy who’s into a bit of BDSM. Yep, all … Continue reading Review: “The Last Breath Before Death” by Alan Golbourn (2024)
FEAR appeared at exactly the right time to fill a gap in the market. Although there were similarly-glossy genre magazines (Starburst, Fangoria, Samhain) their focus was on film whereas FEAR recognised there was demand for a magazine that covered horror fiction1. As an avid reader of ZZAP!64 in the mid-80s, for their publishers Newsfield to … Continue reading Horror Rewind #12 – ‘FEAR’ magazine # 2, Sep/Oct 1988
Childhood is weird, isn't it? Weird in a good way: weird in that the world is more full of wonder than at any other time in our life. As we age, depending on our cast of mind, we view this openness as something silly, and rightly confined to the past, or else envy young children … Continue reading First Frights: Ghosts, ghosts, and ghosts
Into the Gyre 