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First published in 2014, this is a collection of eight longish short stories — each comprising more than 50 pages. It’s the first Aickman I’...

I've dashed through this short, 112-page book of 20 strange, unsettling and enthralling tales published two months ago. The collection t...

Atomic Theory is at work in a rural parish of Ireland. This, says Sergeant Pluck of the local police station, explains a spate of missing bi...

On Sunday, 23 July 1963, BBC staff director Waris Hussein met for the first time with Verity Lambert, the newly appointed producer of a seri...

This is another excellent, creepy novel by the author of Boy in the Tower . Ana feigns sickness to get out of going to school, where she'...

This was the perfect accompaniment to my journey to London and back for the Nigel Kneale centenary , and not only because it fitted the driv...

Julian Lawnsdsley has set up a bookshop in a small town, escaping from the evils of the City. One potential customer is a peculiar old man w...

Toni Hammond is in her office in New Mexico when she's called by a lawyer in England and told she's inherited an estate. Two weeks l...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry features my essay, "There's someone in my head but it's not me," on ...

Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel The Bird's Nest is extraordinary. Elizabeth Richmond works in a museum, the wall beside her desk remov...

Straight on from her Dark Tales , I've ploughed through Shirley Jackson's final (and greatest, says the back cover) novel, We Hav...

I've read loads since completing Space Odyssey - chapters of various mates' works in progress and all sorts of material for work, ...

I'm afraid that this odd but acclaimed novel about a grieving father (namely, Abraham Lincoln) left me a bit cold. All sorts of thi...

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , William Hartnell – later, the first Doctor Who – trained as an actor at the Ital...

July sees the release of Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters vol. 2 , and I've written the Sixth Doctor's encounter with th...

The new issue of the Lancet Psychiatry - vol. 3, no. 10 (October 2016) - is out today, and includes my article on the mind of ghost story...

Graceless - the science-fiction series I created and wrote - is back on BBC Radio 4 Extra this week . The first episode was broadcast ...

Episode 733: Blink First broadcast: 7.10 pm on Saturday 9 June 2007 << back to 2006 The Doctor explains in Blink Blink  is so...

After episode 696 ( Doctor Who ): Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - A Man of Substance First broadcast: 8.50pm on Saturday, 22 April 2000 ...

After episode 695 ( Survival , part 3 ) Resistance is Useless , first broadcast 3 January 1992 << back to 1991 Confessions of an...