The following comment pieces first appeared in "Electric Darkness", a regular column in The Third Alternative (TTA) magazine, which in 2007 was re-launched as Black Static.
"Constantly insightful" Horror World Reviews (on Electric Darkness)
"Electric Darkness alone is worth the cover price" Colin Harvey (Suite 101)
For more on Black Static and other TTA publications including Crimewave and Interzone, go to: TTA Press
"Angels Long Forgotten" (Black Static #17 June 2010)
[on CHILDREN IN HORROR]
"Holding Hands in Quicksand" (Black Static #16 Apr 2010)
[on SUPPORT]
"Adaptive Behaviour" (Black Static #15 Feb 2010)
[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:
Guest blog (July 2010) on Simon Marshall jones's web site Ramblings Of a Tattooed Head.
"WESTWORLD"
(Cinema Futura, ed. Mark Morris, PS Publications, 2010)
"Alfred and Jack: Ripping Yarns" (ON HITCHOCK AND JACK THE RIPPER)
Fortean Times #241 (October 2008)
"Stephen Volk's 10 Most Terrifying Movie Deaths"
The Book of Lists: Horror (2008)
"Can Hammer Ever Rise from the Grave?" (ON HAMMER)
Pantechnicon 6 March (2008)
Introduction to "British Invasion" ed. Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden (2007)
"Stiff Collars" (ON M.R. JAMES)
"Some [Further] Remarks on Ghost Stories" ed. Brian J. Showers (2006)
"Empathy for the Devil" (ON DENNIS WHEATLEY)
Horror: Another 100 Books ed. Stephen Jones, Kim Newman (2005)