Meet Me At The Library This Saturday!
Leicester Folk! On Saturday October 7th (11am) I’m having a book launch, chat-with-the author-thingy at Leicester Central Library. It’s part of Leicester Libraries festival and is free to pop in but, to ensure you get a seat in case it gets busy, contact the library and book. Either pop in or phone up (0116 299 […]
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Back in 2019 the youtube channel Horrorbabble did an incredible reading of ‘The Footage’, my horror short story about a guy who tries to find out why he sleepwalks and where he goes. Now that same recording has been remastered, so this is an ideal time to check it out. Or for your sleeping self […]
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Midnight Barflies, Leicester
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The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
The Naked Civil Servant is a made for tv film about the hardest bastard who ever lived. John Hurt plays a young exhibitionistically homosexual man in 1930s/40s Britain who can’t go to the shops without at least one slur shouted at him, if he’s lucky. It’s a testament to the sheer willpower of Quentin Crisp […]
Read more "The Naked Civil Servant (1975)"My Octopus Pal…
Been wearing this pendant for some weeks now. Picked it up for £3.00 at a literary convention in Edinburgh. I only wish I had some deep personal connection to octopi. But it looks pretty.
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My dear Americans: The Keep Within is $1.99 on Amazon all month! Treat yourself to the e-book of 2023’s most darkly humorous fantasy novel that’s positively throbbing with courtly intrigue and hidden blades! Follow the link above!
Read more "$1.99 For The Keep Within!"Rushton Triangular Lodge
Visited the frankly bizarre Rushton Triangular Lodge today, a Tudor folly covered in numbers, shapes and symbolism that no one besides its creator Sir Thomas Tresham fully understands. Likely it’s a quiet protest against Protestantism (he designed it while in prison for refusing to give up Catholicism) though his interest in the esoteric suggests it […]
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