Illustration

100 Ghosts: The Terror

Cor blimey / god blind me (yeah, I know!) I’m a bit obsessed with the Terror, and the Erebus for that matter. A few weeks ago I wasn’t...

100 Ghosts: In Fabric, Directed by Peter Strickland, 2018

A bonkers horror confection set in a weird ersatz present / recent past which looks like something produced by aliens whose only...

100 Ghosts: The Dead Room

Written and directed by Mark Gatiss, this was the BBC’s 2018 A Ghost Story for Christmas offering. It is the short but not very sweet...

100 Ghosts: The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston

I was first introduced to this gentle tale of an ancient haunted house via the 1986 television series, broadcast just before Christmas. I...

100 Ghosts: The Tractate Middoth by M R James

I’ll be the first to admit it, I didn’t have a clue what a tractate or a middoth was before I first read this, but obscure as it is, the...

100 Ghosts: Schalken the Painter by Sheridan le Fanu.

Or as it should be called ‘Toxic Masculinity Never Dies’. This ghastly tale by Le Fanu, first published in the Dublin University Magazine...

Gormenghastly

I've recently been working on a project I am thinking of as 'Gormenghast for the under 5s', It's the story of a tiny kitchen girl, Dot,...