Tanya sits on a low wall at the bottom of her garden, and she’s already swigging from a bottle by the time I reach her. She’s picked the label off so I’ve no idea what it is but it’s pink and smells like floor cleaner. She hands it to me before I’ve even sat down. […]
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3 Zombie Films That Don’t Involve Brains
I’m continuing my Halloween season with a focus on zombie films. Zombies have become something of a cultural icon in a way that few movie monsters have, but a lot of the contemporary depictions of the zombie are rooted in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), which conveniently ignores the folklore roots of the zombie, and […]
Halloween Season – Halloween Night
Thank you for letting me know that you’d like to be notified about my ghost stories on BBC Radio 4 this Halloween! In the meantime, how about a spooky slice of flash fiction… “Mom, why don’t we have a pumpkin for Halloween?” Michael looked out the window at the houses across the street. Each one […]
Halloween Season – Queens of Twilight
The inhabitants of Karloff Falls gathered at the single bar on Main Street for the annual Halloween Battle of the Bands contest. Some of the townsfolk wore homemade T-shirts to support their friends or neighbours. Others wore disinterested expressions, there solely due to the lack of anything else to do. MC Marie Festre adjusted her […]
5 Classic Horror Movies to watch this Halloween
It’s October so we’re now officially into the Halloween Build-up! Each Monday I’m going to post horror related content, and this week we’re looking at classic horror movies! There are various arguments about what year ‘modern horror’ begins, which will be another post for another time, but for this post I’m going with the 1968 cut off point. […]
#FridayFlash – TheTrunk
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