Edited together by the man himself, we present this harrowing Halloween video from the Spooktacular Scarefest of Thurs 23rd October – featuring Joseph Delaney, Sam Enthoven, Tommy Donbavand, Jon Mayhew and the TERRIFYING TIGHTS of Mr David Gatward!
Archive > October 2010
Halloween Scream Street Podcast
Happy Halloween! The October 2010 edition of Scream Street‘s own podcast, The Screamcast, is now online – and it’s a special half-hour edition featuring special guest Barry Hutchison – fellow TBM captive and author of the spook-tacular Invisible Fiends series! Here’s Barry and I enjoying each other’s books at a recent joint event… You can [...]
All set for Sunday.
Looking forward to the little blighters coming around tomorrow… so I can eat them!
Cave author on shortlist….
Cave author Niamh Sharkey is shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards for On The Road with Mavis and Marge.
Competition Time!!!!
To celebrate the release of Furnace: Fugitives, the fourth and penultimate book in the Furnace series, I’m offering three Trapped By Monsters readers the chance to win all four books in the series so far, all signed! I’ll also throw in an exclusive Furnace poster (the one in the photo, it’s huge!) for each winner [...]
Yucky Food
Hey folks, it’s almost that time of year again. The nights grow darker, evil is abroad (getting a nice suntan, no doubt) and Halloween approaches. With more than enough terrific horror stories from our resident authors to enjoy, I thought I would share some recipes suitable for a cafe in Scream Street. How about some [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
Drawing Blood (Again)!
Last week I mentioned I’ll be spending a little time this weekend with Chris Mould (yes, that’s him in the picture – self portrait I may add). He’s the rather clever author and illustrator of, among his many impressive titles, the quite wonderful Something Wickedly Weird series. I’ll be joining him at Dean Clough in Halifax in [...]
Competition time! (over at Scottish Book Trust)
I reviewed Hazel Allan’s fab, exciting and scary BREE McCREADY AND THE HALF-HEART LOCKET here a couple of weeks ago – well, the good news is the sequel is almost out! I can’t get my hands on a copy yet but I’ll be reviewing it when I do… and meantime you can enter a competition [...]
Monstered!
The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival on Saturday was awesome. Here’s a pic of Alexander Gordon Smith at our Chainsaw Gang Best of Horror Panel, introducing a personal friend of his – the disembodied head of one of the Wheezers from his fantastic Furnace books (click here for my review of those on TBM). Rather [...]
