I love books that are just full of nonsense and this here book is one of them. Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow is full ridiculous characters like Boxtrolls, Cabbageheads, The Man With the Iron Socks, Trotting Badgers, to name a few. The story takes place above and beneath the streets of Ratbridge where a [...]
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Jimmy Coates Invades Your Classroom
What are all these tiny people doing running about the streets in matching uniforms? What’s that? Schools? Term time? How very confusing for all of us. Well, if it’s term time again I suppose that means that I’ll be visiting some schools at some point soon. And it also means that somewhere out there in [...]
Scream Street 2.0
Great news for UK Scream Street fans – the official Scream Street website has undergone something of a face lift! With spooky new graphics, a new downloads section and more updates planned (Scream Street bookplates, anyone?), there’s a creepy new corner of the web to explore! Check out the new-look site here: http://www.screamstreet.co.uk Tommy
The Score
This is Alan Moore. He’s the author of lots of my favourite stories (including Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Top Ten and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, to name just a few) and he’s also a bit of a hero to me. These – as they appear in The Extraordinary Works of [...]
Haikasoru Awesome
I’ve got favourite authors, of course. I’ve had phases of having favourite record labels. But I’ve never had a favourite imprint before… Over the last few months I’ve become a massive fan of Haikasoru. They’re an imprint of Viz Media, specialising in English-language translations of thrilling fiction from Japan. And they are awesome. I first [...]
Happy Birthday, Mr Harryhausen!
Today is the 90th birthday of Ray Harryhausen, creator and animator of some of the finest monsters in cinema. In fact in interviews such as this one Harryhausen has always said he prefers the term ‘creature’ to ‘monster’ – an indication of the respect and reverence with which he approached his storytelling. Each one of [...]
Free Story Idea, Help Yourself
One answer I’ve always liked to the question of where ideas come from, is that they’re often the result of chance combinations: two or more things that come together unexpectedly in your mind. Well, here are three that have been colliding lately in mine… Long-term followers of this blog might conceivably remember this post, in [...]
Bite Me
Here’s a link to an interview with me about my book Crawlers at terrific new horror fan website Snakebite Horror. It contains an exclusive sneaky early announcement of thrilling developments currently afoot right here at Trapped By Monsters. Take a look. ;D Sam
How Precious
Via the seemingly inexhaustible fountain of wonders that is Boing Boing here’s a link to some beautifully illustrated pages from a Russian edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. I particularly love this version of Gollum… …But watch out for the spiders of Mirkwood, which/who are pretty damn stunning, too. Sam
The Way of Pain
Pain is, frankly, something that I prefer not to experience for myself, if I can avoid it. But when I’m safely ensconced in a comfy reading spot I seem to have no problem with it being inflicted on other people…! Tom Yamada, central character of new series The 5 Lords of Pain (published by Barrington [...]
