Amazon Prime subscribers currently get at least one book free to own each month, sometimes two. I tended to claim but not read them, but the...

I always regretted not buying the Kindle DX, for its big e-ink screen, so when the Kindle Scribe came out I was tempted. But I already had a...

Self-reflexive or self-indulgent? Like many Anglophone readers of my generation, I suppose, I first came across ‘megalopolis’ in one of th...

When I tell people that I love my Ploopy Knob, and I can’t stop touching it while I work, they sometimes get the wrong idea. To be fair, whe...

James Briggs is on the lam, with most of Arizona on his tail, and Mexico is out of reach. But he’s heard about a portal to a magical place w...

Questioning possession: inventive novel swerves horror trope in new direction.  While getting accustomed to Paul Tremblay’s Bram Stoker Awar...

We cannot be sure if the phenomenon extends beyond Milton Keynes – there is a news blackout – but it seems that everyone in that city who wa...

In August 2024 I attended a free one-day convention organised by Indie Horror Chapter in Birmingham, a gathering of self-published authors g...

Dangerous Animals, by Sean Byrne (Independent Film Company) Tucker's shark experience! In my birthday wishes to Jaws ' (1975...

Envy is a 45-page, eight-chapter novella, the first in a series of seven about the deadly sins, self-published by the author (with a nod to...

Short film quartet relies on shifting views, restrained performances and subtle humour to encourage reflection and underscore the complexity...

Liam Munhoz is an insanely attractive young man, twenty years old, from Maywood, the third smallest city in LA County. Reserved in some ways...

In the early 21st century, automation went into high gear and robots took over the menial jobs. Then they took over all the other jobs as we...

Jurassic World: Rebirth, by Gareth Edwards (Universal Pictures) Three times three? Jurassic World Rebirth is the seventh instalment in t...

The Hamlet is a fairly good mosaic novella, telling a series of stories about the people in a small rural community in Scotland, close to a...

Last week I reviewed (and recommended) two of Mark Valentine’s essay collections, Borderlands & Otherworlds and Sphinxes & Obelisks ...

Phillip Corbus is an artist, a profession which suits him because post-war headaches make it difficult for him to work in a sustained way in...

Psychoanalysts take heed: hints of the divine surface in quagmire of confused children, mentally ill mothers, and strained relationships.  W...

Borderlands and Otherworlds by Mark Valentine, Tartarus Press, limited edition hardback, £45.00, 17 June 2025, ISBN 9781912586684 Sphinxes...

Rowany Angelica Marten de Vere was born on Mars, and although the gravity on her version of Mars isn’t as light as in our universe, she woul...