Mark Kirkbride's Blog, page 10
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June 22, 2015
Ding-Dong the Witch is…Alive
In Neil Davies’ The Village Witch, something dark and ancient stirs in the heart of an English village, awaiting its moment. For Tim, returning home from serving in the army, there will be more battles to come. With a haunted house, Gothic isolation, supernatural terrors, sacrifice, disappearances, murders and random acts of violence, The Village Witch has all the classic elements of horror. Told from multiple points of view, with fully-formed characters nicely differentiated, some on the side of the supernatural, others investigating it, yet others fearing it and some completely oblivious, the village feels genuinely populated, and all the strands twist and turn to a thrilling denouement. Especially recommended for those holidaying in Devon!
May 5, 2015
May 2, 2015
April 21, 2015
‘I loved you in my dreams’: Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park
A terrifying Furby (or Terby), a haunted house, a possessed dog, tortured father-son relationships and a writer called Bret Easton Ellis who valiantly attempts and magnificently fails to leave his drink and drug-fuelled past behind to settle down in suburbia as one half of a celebrity couple. Ellis at his funniest, and most moving; literary – postmodern – horror at its best.
���I loved you in my dreams���: Bret Easton Ellis��� Lunar Park
A terrifying Furby (or Terby), a haunted house, a possessed dog, tortured father-son relationships and a writer called Bret Easton Ellis who valiantly attempts and magnificently fails to leave his drink and drug-fuelled past behind to settle down in suburbia as one half of a celebrity couple. Ellis at his funniest, and most moving; literary ��� postmodern ��� horror at its best.
