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Fallen angels stalk the ruins of Paris. The newly fallen Isabelle is preyed upon by a street gang who sever two of her fingers, keen to stea...

“So it’s all true then. I suppose I’ve always had a feeling in my stomach telling me it was, but if you’ve been there, then I can’t deny it,...

My unsettling short story “NKATA” is featured in the latest issue of long-running science-fiction magazine Interzone (issue #304, March 202...

This short, 82-page novella first published in 1936 was recommended to me after I posted about the 1934 and 1941 editions of A Short History...

This is an impressively detailed, close analysis of compellingly nuts and unsettling TV film  Penda’s Fen , originally broadcast on BBC-1 on...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today, with news of who is writing episodes of the forthcoming TV series plus a ne...

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...