When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach, Terry Maitland, as the culprit. DNA evidence and fingerprints confirm the crime was committed by this well-loved family man.   Horrifi…

Hey! This week was all about taking the last step towards totally completing a novel adventure I began during NaNoWriMo 2016 .  When I had a blast writing a YA horror story featuring some of my most favourite horror tropes. A story I loved telling and then put aside for a while, …

Incident On and Off a Mountain Road by Joe R. Lansdale My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had a bad run of books I can't get into lately, so I've been reading short stories. This is the latest one. The night Ellen is driving too fast down a mountain road, she hits a car. …

Hey! The weeks just seem to be passing by way too quickly, if you ask me. But I still managed to squeeze a whole bunch of stuff into each day. I DNFd another book, one that was supposed to be a horror story and instead ended up being a very slow account of someone's dull psych…

Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back by Joe R. Lansdale My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, that was a fucked up little story about roses. And not the pretty kind you're expecting. Twenty years after a nuclear war, one of the assholes who helped make the weapons that dest…

This is something I got to thinking about this week. I had plans to start a new novel project next week, but by Wednesday I realised that because of the smaller things I've been focusing on, there's no way that's going to happen. I might not be a big plotter, but I …

Gremlins by George Gipe My rating: 5 of 5 stars Gremlins is a movie that I've seen many times. Of course I have, I'm a kid of the 80s and this movie was HUGE. Like everyone else, I fell in love with Gizmo and have collected Gizmo merch/toys for years. I might or might…

Hi!  How was your week? Mine was a bit strange. A little topsy-turvy because after almost three weeks, my daughter went back to school. That means that my brain needed to switch gears before settling into any new projects. My head is just too full of ideas right now to concentr…