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...

Rollerball, by Norman Jewison (20 th Century Fox)   Another Golden Anniversary. While Jaws turned fifty with much hype and fanfare las...

Fifty years ago today, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) was released into the wild, into the world, and into the film industry and its golden...

Game of Thrones,  HBO, 8 seasons, April 2011-May 2019, £9.99 (monthly subscription rate) Fantasy at its finest. I’ve been wanting to wri...

The Spectral Link   by Thomas Ligotti Subterranean Press, 94pp, £11.80, June 2014, ISBN 9781596066502   This review was first publishe...

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King Hodder & Stoughton, 416pp, £20.00, June 2014, ISBN 9781444788624   This review was first published in...

Pessimism smothered in absurdity with a dash of hope: short story collection substantiates future bizarro heavyweight Ben Fitts’s bizarro co...

Sugar.  Apple TV+, 8 episodes, April 2024, £8.99 (monthly subscription rate) Genre-bending neo-noir. John Sugar (played by Colin Farrell...

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, by Christopher McQuarrie (Paramount Pictures) Better on the big screen. The cinematic experienc...

Rediscovered! Lost tales by Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker , Newell & Newell, paperback (saddle stitch binding), £13.99, 6 April 2025 Ne...

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was intended to be part of a series of six novels, which was planned as Parable of the Talents , Para...

The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville, Picador, paperback, £9.00, 23 February 2017, ISBN 9781447296553 China Miéville has been p...