Category: Goat Leader
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Little Spooks – by Terry Miller – Book Review
Dark bleatings everyone! Little Spooks is indeed a collection of “little” spooks – it’s 30 horror drabbles. It’s a super quick and fun read, and here are some thoughts on/summaries of each bite-sized nightmare. THE BAD CHILD: Is there anything more disturbing than the continuous crying of a small child? THE EYES HAVE IT: Collecting…
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My First Time Working Behind-The-Scenes On An Anthology – The Perfectly Fine Neighborhood
And yes, I did mean to spell ‘neighborhood’ like that, because it uses the American spelling. Dark bleatings everyone! Bit of a different article piece for you this week. I’m involved in an anthology due for release on 1st October 2023, and it was my first time getting to work on a project like this…
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Fearful Implications – by Ramsey Campbell – Book Review
FEARFUL IMPLICATIONS collects twenty recent tales by Ramsey Campbell, ranging from the uncanny to the satirical, the disturbing to the comical, and sometimes they meet in the middle. Can our mobile phones connect us to the afterlife? A voice from a bush tempts a child off a path, and a street performer’s routine proves to be…
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30 Days of Night – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
The Official Novelization of The Terrifying Film In the sleepy and secluded town of Barrow, Alaska — the northernmost settlement in North America — its citizens are preparing for the annual coming of the Dark, when the sun will set for more than thirty consecutive days and nights.But this year, the Dark will bring something…
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That Time I… Had To Put Out An SOS To Escape A Terrifying Date
Dark bleatings everyone! Not all heroes wear capes, but the hero of this story is my friend Joel, and knowing him, he probably does own a cape. Possibly several capes. I can imagine him now strutting around in one, enjoying how it billows when he rounds a corner. But anyway, on to the plot of…
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Naked & Famous – by Elizabeth Broadbent – Book Review
Sixteen-year-olds Harlan, Brooks, and Don’t-Call-Me-Tiffany-Sue T. S. have zilch to do during their summer in a podunk Southern swamp town. T. S., who’d give a lesser toe (or maybe pose in Playboy) to escape, hits on an if a bad tabloid can play cut-and-paste with Bigfoot photos, why can’t they serve up the real thing?…
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Characters That Belong in the Horror Genre (but are lurking elsewhere!)
Dark bleatings everyone! Some years back, I wrote an article for my favourite website GINGERNUTS OF HORROR about characters from other genres that I think would fit quite snuggly into horror. For some reason, I have never stopped thinking about this topic. I’ve thought about it so much that I’ve felt the need to compile…
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NSFW – by David Scott Hay – Book Review
An experimental horror-lit set in the near future about connection and isolation. The Office meets A Clockwork Orange. Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus. As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their…
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My Top 10 Horror Movie Scenes
Dark bleatings everyone! I probably spend an abnormal amount of time reading and watching horror, and even more time thinking about what I’ve absorbed. Mostly, I tend to think about and rewatch my absolute favourite horror movie scenes of all time. I say “of all time”, but guaranteed, the second this article goes live, I’ll…
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The YouTube Videos I Was Too Busy To Post Last Week
I got a little swamped last week, so here are the links for the last few YouTube videos!