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 [...]
Category > Boredom Buster!
No fear of the dark!
It’s taken four years of training, but I was finally awarded a black belt in Tae Kwon Do this week. As the stated meaning of a black belt is ‘maturity and an absence of fear of the dark’, I should probably feel a lot better about being stuck here in this cave now. I should [...]
The Spookiest Opening Paragraph in Horror History!
Hi guys I was recently on a book tour thingamy in Ireland and, arriving at my hotel, was horrified to discover that I’d left my copy of Michael Grant’s HUNGER at home! Very annoying, as I was halfway through and enjoying the follow-up to GONE immensely (by the way, head over here for Barry’s take [...]
For Your Consideration…
Via The Cartoon Museum (which, btw, is AWESOME) I’ve received the following: That’s a mighty panel of judges to impress, but what do you think? Fancy a shot at being one of the Young Cartoonists of the Year?
A History of Horror
I’ve been a fan of Mark Gatiss for a very long time – ever since my uni days, in fact, when I tuned in every week for a new installment of ‘On The Town With The League of Gentlemen’ (the dark comedy radio show that was later to take TV by storm). Since then I’ve [...]
Write Your Own Scary Stories Part Four!
Hi everyone! It’s time to move on to Part Four of my horror-writing workshop. We’ve already had a quick look at ideas and characters, so today I want to talk about setting. As always, if you want to check out the other parts of the workshop first then you can find them here: Part One: [...]
‘SCALES!’
Got fourteen mins or so to spare for some beautifully animated dragon shenanigans? Take a look at this short film, SINTEL: The story’s a little sentimental but there’s a nice twist I’ll happily admit I didn’t see coming until (heh) it was too late. In fact the whole Sintel project is extremely impressive. The film [...]
Beware The Stare!
Hi guys A new book called ‘Cinema Futura’ has just been released by PS Publishing. Edited by acclaimed author Mark Morris it is a collection of essays by horror, thriller and sci-fi writers. Each writer picked their favourite sci-fi film and was given about 2,000 words to tell the world why they loved that particular [...]
Another Book On The Wall
As I’m sure you can imagine, the decor here in the caves leaves a lot to be desired (especially after Wingnut the Lesser tried to ‘paint’ the walls with a mixture of rat poo and wee last month). So you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across these utterly brilliant posters, created by Canadian [...]
Write Your Own Scary Stories Part Three!
Welcome to Part Three of my workshop on how to write stories so horrific that they’ll cause your granny’s false teeth to fall out and your teachers to run screaming into the broom cupboard never to emerge again. If you haven’t already seen Part One and Part Two then check these out first because they’ll [...]
