'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Last spring, I had my first taste of life as a 'guest conversationalist' on board a Seabourn cruise ship. This was a short but delig...

Thanks to Steve Barge, who blogs as The Puzzle Doctor (and if you don't know his blog, it really is consistently interesting and I recom...

I like horror fiction and films, but there's no point in denying that quite a lot of it is...well, horrible. The title of the film Blood...

Goldeneye is the title of a James Bond film, but before that it was the title of a 1989 biopic, the story of Bond's creator, Ian Flemin...

Over the course of just five years, between 1928 and 1933, A.G. Macdonell, the Scottish writer best-known as author of England, Their Englan...

I've been a fan of Michael Ridpath's work since before I first met him, which in itself is quite a long time ago. He's a versati...

Stories which focus on characters who experience gradual psychological disintegration are often harrowing, but if told well, they can be eng...

My copy of Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (1933) is a precious one, despite lacking a dust jacket, because it's inscribed by the ...

Speak No Evil is a 2024  American remake - written and directed by the accomplished James Watkins - of a Danish film of two years earlier w...

  I'm delighted to share, at long last, news of an anthology of mine that will be published in the summer. It's called What the Worl...