HELLO, MORTICIANS!
(...or, Writing Horror for Fun and Profit)
The following "comment pieces" first appeared in the "Electric Darkness", a regular column in The Third Alternative (TTA) magazine (from 2007 re-named Black Static.
For more on Black Static: Transmissions from Beyond (the UK's premier horror and dark fantasy magazine; winner of the Hub Award) and other TTA publications go to: TTA Press
"Adaptive Behaviour" (Black Static #15 Feb 2009)
[on ADAPTATION]
"People of Glass" (Black Static #14 Dec 2009)
[on VICTIMS]
"That's The Way To Do It" (Black Static #13 Oct 2009)
[on ANARCHY IN HORROR]
"Through Other Eyes" (Black Static #12 Aug 2009)
[on RESEARCH]
"Witches and Pricks" (Black Static #11 Jun 2009)
[on WITCHCRAFT]
"Resurrect or Die" (Black Static #10 May 2009)
[on NAMES vs ORIGINALITY]
"It Has To Be Said" (Black Static #9 Feb 2009)
[on DIALOGUE]
"Walking Milwaukee" (Black Static #8 Jan 2009)
[on IDEAS]
"The Masque of Mary Whitehouse" (Black Static #7 Oct 2008)
[on CENSORSHIP]
"Fur vs. Iron" (Black Static #6 Aug 2008)
[on HUMANITY vs HYPE]
"Not In Front Of The Grown-Ups" (Black Static #5 Jun 2008)
[on TELEVISION]
"The Big Perhaps" (Black Static #4 Apr 2008)
[On RELIGION IN HORROR]
"Poetic Accuracy" (Black Static #3 Feb 2008)
[On SCREENPLAY vs NOVEL]
"Shamans and Shitmeisters" (Black Static #2 Dec 2007)
(On DIRECTORS)
"Too Dark" (Black Static #1 Sep 2007)
(On GENRE)
"In Purgatory" (TTA #42 Summer 2005)
(On SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT)
"Avoiding the Furniture" (TTA #41 Spring 2005)
(On ACTORS)
"The Peekaboo Principle" (TTA #40 Winter 2004-5)
(On PSYCHOLOGY OF HORROR)
"Talking Blood" (TTA #39 Autumn 2004)
(On GHOST STORIES)
Other non-fiction:
"Alfred and Jack: Ripping Yarns" (Fortean Times #241 (October 2008)
(ON ALFRED HITCHOCK AND JACK THE RIPPER)
"Stephen Volk's 10 Most Terrifying Movie Deaths...
...And 10 Fates Worse Than Death"
("The Book of Lists: Horror" 2008)
"Can Hammer Ever Rise from the Grave?"
(ON HAMMER FILMS)
(Pantechnicon 6 March 2008)
(Introduction to "British Invasion,"
ed. Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden
2007)
"Stiff Collars" ("Some [Further] Remarks on
(ON M.R JAMES) Ghost Stories" ed. Brian J. Showers
2006)
"Empathy for the Devil" ("Horror: Another 100 Books"
(ON DENNIS WHEATLEY) ed. Stephen Jones, Kim Newman 2005)