Category Archives: Horrific Musings

Jean Rollin 1938 – 2010

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I was sad to learn that prolific French erotic-horror film-maker Jean Rollin died on December 15th after a long illness.

The few films I’ve seen of his were pleasingly stylish as well as lurid, and “Fascination” summed it all up for me. Set in a beautifully-shot French castle, it features period costume, theatrical dialogue and a cast of blood-drinking lesbian killers.The image of a semi-naked Brigitte Lahaie, stalking a victim across the castle moat with a scythe is one that refuses to be forgotten.

RIP Jean. May your heaven be full of nudey vampire girls.

Holiday Reading

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It’s been a long while since I did any book shopping, but here’s some very nice looking additions to my TBR pile…

Edward Lee – The Golem

Conrad Williams – One

Thomas Ligotti – Teatro Grottesco

DF Lewis – Weirdmonger

Robert E. Howard – The Complete Chronicles of Conan

Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Gary Fry – The Impelled and other Headtrips

John Lewellyn Probert – The Faculty of Terror

Anon – The Book with No Name

Anon – The Eye of the Moon

John Ajvide Lindqvist – Let the Right One In

Richard Laymon – Savage

Carlton Mellick III – Adolf in Wonderland

There’s something very reassuring about a bedside table creaking with quality genre books. May they live up to their lurid red fonts and creepy covers. Reviews will follow people…

I’ll just check my emails…

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… and suddenly the evening has disappeared in a clickathon of message boards, random links that caught the eye, stories, youtube, i-tunes…

Dave Gorman summed it up nicely, after sitting at his computer to crack on with page 1 of his novel:

“Unfortunately, my computer is connected to the internet. The internet is everything in the whole wide world ever. Now I don’t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever a little bit distracting.”

It’s funny because it’s true. I’ve taken to writing on my creaky old desktop, which  isn’t connected to the internet, and it’s amazing how much more constructive work gets done.

Loch Tay, Scotland

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I just arrived back from 5 days staying in the remote and beautiful Kenmore on the edge of Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland.

camera pics nov 2009 335Just the place for relaxing, walking out in the Tolkien-esque scenery and getting the creative juices flowing. I took this picture while sitting on a log and watching the sunset behind the mountains, listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack on my iPod. (Yes, I’m a closet hobbit)

Sublime.

Your mother’s corpse won’t hear you cry…

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As a fan of loud and unpopular music, I wrote some theatrical horror lyrics for punk-metallers FC Dog.

The lyrics to Zombie Night and Vampire Parliament were inspired by psychobilly music and bands such as the Misfits, and are both now regulars in FC Dog’s live set.

fc dog uk

Click on the link below to see the video of the song, in which I also played the lead zombie in the black hoody. I had a ghastly real ale hangover during the filming, but it was fun running around Sheffield city centre covered in corpse paint and fake blood, much to the fascination of the local goths.

Zombie Night on youtube

Run and hide, shriek and die! Zombie night is almost nigh.
Suffer Sheffield, don’t ask why. Your mother’s corpse won’t hear you cry…