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Middle-aged men and women chaperoned their elderly parents into rooms whose bare walls intimated the vast emptiness of what they represented. We Take Them When You're Not Looking (my upcoming collection We Take Them When You're Not Looking due out in March 2026 from Uncomfortably Dark Horror).

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Local park reading time.

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We managed 37 kilometres long distance walking last weekend. And as always, or nearly always, we finished on the banks of the Vistula.

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I started my first Italo Calvino book yesterday. My only regret, I wish I hadn't taken this long to read him.

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Starless and Bible Black is a collection of short stories by Susan York, published by the excellent Midnight Street Press. Highly recommended (see Amazon and Goodreads for a full review).

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Lightning in a bottle.

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Seventy years ago, at the height of the Blitz, she’d often envisaged herself as a fragile old woman with a complicated past of relationships. That future had felt eerily inconceivable because of where the war was leading them. Hungry Celluloid

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It was as if, whenever he turned his back, the cityscape were shifting like studio scenery, an intermittent bout of dislocation further accentuated by the brooding monolith. City-End

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From my band's last weekend rehearsal, only a practice song (hence the echoing quality - it was live) , but one we really, really like. Another Layer of Truth. Video: Waldek Koźba being the very definition of this band.

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Some of my books including one novel, five collections, and three novelettes collected in the same volume.

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It's been just over a year since the passing of one of my favourite writers, Paul Auster. Auster is one of the very few writers whose work I regularly reread. I'm currently halfway through his memoir, Report From The Interior, which I started a few days ago. Raise a glass to a true original.

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A film that I regularly return to is Christopher McQuarrie's modern-day western Way of the Gun, which stars Ryan Phillippe and Benicio del Toro as two morally corrupt, low-end career criminals who kidnap a pregnant woman (Juliette Lewis).

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Abel Ferrara's 1993 inspired remake of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). "So, where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere, 'cause there's no one like you left."

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The Order is an outstanding crime drama with one foot set in the filmmaking era of the 1970s. Justin Kurzel once again proves his credentials as one of the best directors in the business. Starring Jude Law opposite Nicholas Hoult, both of whom turn in blistering performances. On Amazon Prime now.

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I was fourteen years old when I first read Stephen King's The Long Walk, which was published along with Rage, The Running Man, and Roadwork all in one volume (The Bachman Books), under his short-lived Richard Bachman pseudonym.

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The TV series Sapphire & Steel ran for four seasons (1979 - 1982) on the ITV network and it scared the living daylights out of me. So... "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile."

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I admire this film on so many levels, and was particularly impressed by the portrait of a working-class family, who, for once, are free of the usual Hollywood stereotypes and clichés. I can't wait for the sequel.

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This is a book that contains hard science with themes that dwarf humanity to the point of grains of sand. And yet it is strangely uplifting, moving, and rewarding.

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Trevor Kennedy's beautifully produced Phantasmagoria Magazine is out now. This issue has two covers and is an Eastercon special. It features fiction, reviews, and interviews. I'm lucky enough to have a brand new story in it, too. Cover artworks: Jim Fitzpatrick. Cover designs: Adrian Baldwin.

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What a find in Warsaw's best bookshop! A pack of playing cards dedicated soley to horror films.

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I had a very good day today in terms of book purchases.

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I'm posting a shout-out to any reviewers who might be interested in reading my upcoming sixth collection, We Take Them When You're Not Looking from Uncomfortably Dark Horror. If anyone is interested, drop me a PM, and I'll send you a PDF copy. Many thanks.

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I recently started writing a new collection. My largest yet. A Tenderer Heart Than Yours. Excerpt "Rhythmically abhorrent and lashed into further displays of defiance, they unfurled themselves to the storm-tossed sky with the wounded hysteria of worship." Anxious Tones Rising.

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Many moons ago, the now-defunct Gallows Press published my chapbook, Photographs Showing Terrible Things. Plot: A group of writers attend a horror convention and encounter a publication that, by industry standards, pays extremely well. The catch: a literal killer deadline.

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Apologies for banging this drum one more time, but I've got a new collection coming out later this year from Uncomfortably Dark Horror. I'm on the lookout for any reviewers or bloggers that might be interested in a PDF copy. If so, private message me, and I'll happily furnish you with a copy.

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I've got a new collection coming out soon from Uncomfortably Dark Horror. I'm looking for reviewers or bloggers, etc, to read advanced PDF copies. If anyone is interested, feel free to drop me a line. A few images from some of my previously published books.

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It's been forty-four years since I first discovered this iconic TV show. And it still improves with each viewing.

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This still remains my favourite film of the Living Dead series by George Romero. It's also one of my favourite low-budget films from any genre in cinema.

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Fourteen years after Jacques Tourneur directed I Walked With A Zombie that he loosely adapted M.R. James's seminal short story Casting The Runes. The 1957 masterpiece Night of the Demon stars Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, and Niall MacGinnis, and goes under the title Curse of the Demon in the US.

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There is no spoon.

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The A Team. Post-practice. Warsaw.

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Red. Last week's music practice. Bring on Bob.

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My official author announcement signing from Uncomfortably Dark Horror.

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Warsaw.

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Let’s get this film across the finish line! Be part of our crowdfund for JITTERS MOVIE! 🎥 www.indiegogo.com/projects/com... We have almost completed the film! 🎥

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Happy Valentine's Day to everyone I know!

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Extremely happy to read Donna A Latham's review of my novel The Resurrection Children (Demain Publishing). Review here and in comments section. "A ghost story that's a very heavy read. With themes of addiction and suicide it's dark, depressing and very very creepy. Continued in comments:

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From Happy Goat Horror, an excellent review of Dave Jeffery's Mood Swings published by Black Shuck Books.

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I was fifteen years of age when this anthology was published. Edited by the late, great Dennis Etchison, it showcased some of the greatest authors the genre has produced. I'm sure many of the stories went over my head at the time, but oh boy, it was a massive influence on me.

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To ease myself into Monday, I decided to have a double-double bill of Twilight Zone episodes: The Howling Man, Nightmare AT 20,000 Feet, Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up, and The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.

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Still one of the finest zombie films ever made.

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Out and about in Warsaw.

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One of my most cherished photos is this one of Angelika playing with Mr. Mole in the snow. When she came into our lives, he took to her instantly. Mr. Mole was as much Angelika's dog as he was mine. He absolutely adored her.

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It's two year to the day since I lost Mr. Mole. I think about him every single day. I dream about him every week, more or less. “You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” John Steinbeck

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