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  Writing a post modern urban fantasy mash-up set in New York City, the natural home for all such tales you would think, is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. It is one thing to imagine a fantastical, credulity-bending world between, throughout and underneath the ordinary everyday almost gothic environs Continue Reading

  How I didn’t end up as a detective in a police force somewhere solving crimes and living out of a mysterious hidden headquarters I will never know. Given the amount of mystery series aimed at children and teens that I voraciously read in my defining years – clearly not Continue Reading

  While it is highly unlikely that early man, whose survival depended on an all-consuming hunt for food and shelter, and no doubt the occasional sprint from a sabre-tooth tiger, had time for existential ruminations, it’s a fair bet that shortly thereafter people began wondering what it truly meant to Continue Reading

  It’s funny the kind of ideas that take root in you when you’re a child, all evidence to the contrary. I was convinced as a boy of 9 or 10 that Richmal Crompton was a man, that he lived in Singapore where he dreamt up wondrous stories for me Continue Reading

  This is inspired! The amazingly talented folks at college humor, whose most excellent literary shenanigans I discovered via laughingsquid.com, have made some changes to the titles of much loved and well known books to make them, in the parlance of the interweb, more click bait worthy (in other words Continue Reading

  With The Walking Dead‘s return to our TV screens so imminent we can feel the undead breathing down our necks, and the fascination with all things zombie showing no signs of abating, it makes perfect sense that even Archie is getting in on the afterlife action. And in a Continue Reading

I loved the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series as a child. Jupiter “Jupe” Jones, Peter “Pete” Crenshaw, and Robert “Bob” Andrews, from Rocky Beach, California, who were all surmised to be around 13-14 years old – their true ages were never revealed save for being too young to get Continue Reading

  I am a sucker for any and all animal stories. From the books that cram my bookshelf – Nop’s Trials by Donald McCaig, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Duncton Wood (and series) by William Horwood and yes even Dewey by Vicki Myron, and Marley & Me by John Grogan Continue Reading

  “Death is not the worst than can happen to men.” (Plato) Everyone loves a good mystery, so the saying goes. And no one more than J. J. Abrams, a man who has never met a mysterious viral teaser campaign he didn’t like. His latest tantalising effort, which surfaced in Continue Reading

  Death has a finality to it, marking the end of our physical existence here on earth. But as the recent news out of J D Salinger’s estate confirms, it is not necessarily the end of releases by an author. Timed to coincide with the release of Shane Salerno’s poorly-reviewed Continue Reading