Category: Features

A Halloween Blast from the Past: The Nightmare Man

  • October 13, 2016

  • 8 mins to read

The Nightmare Man - BBC

With Halloween on the way, it’s a good time to find some suitably chilling reading or viewing for when the night wind howls outside. Maybe that’s why my thoughts turned to The Nightmare Man, the BBC TV adaptation of David Wiltshire’s novel. It scared the hell out of British viewers in 1981, and inspired a …

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The Cutting Room: Black Mirror

  • October 13, 2016

  • 2 mins to read

Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of our lives; in every home; on every desk; in every palm—a plasma screen; a monitor; a Smartphone—a …

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AHS: Roanoke Chapter 4: FLIP THE TABLE! – Play by Play and Lamentation

  • October 11, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

AHS - S6 Lady Gaga

  What is hope? Hope is tuning into Chapter 4 after no Evan Peters for the first three episodes. It’s having laughed in of shock and awe at Cuba Gooding Jr’s fogged up glasses as he banged Lady Gaga in the woods while Sarah Paulson screamed. Hope is balling your hands into fists and whispering …

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Look Out For … The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell and The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood

  • October 11, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

The Searching Dead - Ramsey Campbell

Look Out For … The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell “The Searching Dead has all the signs of another masterpiece from Ramsey Campbell.” Dominic Sheldrake has never forgotten his childhood in fifties Liverpool or the talk an old boy of his grammar school gave about the First World War. When his history teacher took the …

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