Is there another Halloween spider in the house? Or the pumpkin to be more exact? Lucas certainly thinks so, and this spider, who seems to be out an awful lot, sure has a way with pretty sparkling webs. Turns out there’s not a spider after all but someone else entirely Continue Reading
#Halloween book review: Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
There is a sense, as you plunge into biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s debut novel, Peculiar Ground, that you are in fact walking into a rare and spectacularly unique world. That world is the estate of Wychwood, which we first encounter in the mid-seventeenth century when landscape architect John Norris is, under Continue Reading
Full House o’ zombies: The twee horrors of the Walking Dead sitcom
Boy howdy but isn’t the zombie apocalypse a regular hoot-a-freaking-minute? Actually it’s not, something well evident in The Walking Dead‘s current season, which features yet another battle between relative good and evil, and the just-concluded fifth season of Fear the Walking Dead, but you can’t blame a guy for dreaming Continue Reading