Month: July 2019

Well, that was a scorcher of a month. Despite the sun beating down on me like a big glowing jerk, I managed to get quite a bit done. For one thing, my TV tie-in novel has passed the halfway mark, and I’m looking forward to getting a complete draft done over the next two or three months.

Next up, I’m proud to have become a guest author for the lovely Horror After Dark blog, which kindly agreed to run my five-part series reviewing each and every finalist for this year’s Splatterpunk Awards; links are below. I’ve also been cracking on with my Hugo reviews for WWAC; I should be finished early in August — and with both the Splats and the Hugos done and dusted, I’ll find myself with a chunk of free time.

How will I spend it? Well, I have a few projects in mind…

Articles of mine published elsewhere this month:

• 2019 Hugo Award reviews: novelettes, novellas part 1, novellas part 2
• 2019 Splatterpunk Awards: short stories, novellas, collections, anthologies, novels
• Tammy & Jinty 2019 Special review
• The Vampyre’s Legacy. part 7: Dion Fortune’s Demon Lover

Article topics for August and beyond:

Horror After Dark has just run the fifth and final post in my guest series where I review each and every one of the 2019 Splatterpunk Award finalists!

With Best Short Story, Best Novella, Best Collection and Best Anthology. all that remains is Best Novel. And here it is: the complete category reviewed for your pleasure.

Yet again, a content warning is probably necessary, since the Spatterpunk Awards celebrate extreme horror and some of the novels I’m talking about are indeed pretty extreme in their subject matter.

Carrying on with my 2019 Hugo Award reviews for WWAC, here are three more novellas! Join me as I hang out with cyborgs, sapient spaceships, and a one-legged blimp pilot from Trinidad…

It’s that time of the week again!

Continuing my series of guest posts for Horror After Dark where I review the finalists for this year’s Splatterpunk Awards, here’s my take on the Best Anthology category. If you’re new to the series, you can also check out my reviews of Best Short Story, Best Novella and Best Collection.

Once again, since the Splatterpunk Awards celebrate extreme horror and bad taste bizarro, I should slap a hefty content warning on the entire series.

The seventh instalment of my monthly series on the development of vampire fiction is now live at WWAC! This time I’m looking at noted occult author Dion Fortune, who offered an unusual treatment of vampirism in the 1920s…

My five-part blog series for Horror Afrer Dark where I review every finalist for the 2019 Splatterpunk Awards has a new instalment up! This time round I’m looking at the category for single-author collections. The finalists are an interesting mix, ranging from the macabre to the goofy.

The subject matter’s pretty graphic again (it’s an award for extreme horror, after all) so content warnings ahoy.

My Hugo coverage at WWAC continues with reviews of the first three finalists in the Best Novella category. On the itinerary are tentacled time-travellers, alien jellyfish, and trouble in a land of cakes.

Over at WWAC, I’ve had the pleasure of penning a review-cum-interview of the 2019 Tammy & Jinty special, a revival of two vintage British girls’ comics. Head on over to read it for yourself.

I’ve got another guest post up at the Horror After Dark blog, and it’s the second in my five-part series where I review every finalist for the 2019 Splatterpunk Awards. This time I’m looking at the novella category, which include such delights as Kill for Satan!, Dead Stripper Storage and 1000 Severed Dicks.

As those titles should indicate, the article requires a preeeetty hefty content warning. But it’s all done in the best possible taste.