Halloween

I stood in pitch darkness. I couldn’t see it or smell it but I knew that a metre away stood a mannequin composed of compacted dried blood. Every thirty seconds a luminous drip splashed down, briefly highlighting the contours of the face,…

'On TV it looks so real'. Nightcrawler is a queasy thriller cum satire. It has Jake Gyllenhall being creepy again which is great to see. He's genuinely terrifying as an amoral lunatic who speaks in a mixture of self-help jargon…

Tuesday 21st October 2014 Words: have disappeared It is over a week since I have found time to commit anything to paper. What have I been doing? Living? No, no, no, my life is an endless stream of mayonnaise and frustration. I…

Anyone who’s ever worked retail knows that creepy feeling when the store is closed at night. A space just a few hours ago teeming with people all of a sudden empty. Lights are off and shadows dare you to cross them, the slightest sound…