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
Halloween 2019
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
I ain’t afraid of no Ghostbusters #Halloween light display!
Who ya gonna call?! If you’ve got ghosts, it’s no contest but if you want a brilliantly-calibrated, all-in immersive light display, give a shout out to Tom BetGeorge of Magical Light Shows who decorates his home in Tracy, California every year in absolutely spectacular fashion. He’s assembled a chorus of Continue Reading