I only just picked up the news that Roger Simons died back in April. Roger was a core member of the British film industry, a veteran First Assistant Director with a long list of feature and TV credits from 1963’s Summer Holiday to the last season of Rosemary &Thyme. He ran the crew on just…

Came across this photo while searching the old albums for something else. Back in the day I had the honour of sharing Night Visions 8, one of Dark Harvest’s classic series of three-author anthologies, with John Farris and Joe R Lansdale. Joe and I had met at the previous year’s Fantasycon. Our families were together…

Recently I saw a gratifying burst of Twitter affection directed toward Nightmare, with Angel. It was as unexpected as it was welcome. I once saw a member of an online book group refer to it as her go-to ‘comfort read’ and that was pretty unexpected, too. If you don’t know it, Nightmare, with Angel is…

…is the original title of my second Eleventh Hour story for the 2006 ITV series that starred Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen. I’ve decided to add the script to my small library of downloadable PDFs because… well… Rather than a coronavirus, the story concerns an outbreak of hemorrhagic smallpox. It was partly inspired by the…

Sad to hear that Donald Roy, founding head of Hull University’s Drama Department, has died in Brighton at the age of 90. I was a Drama and English joint honours student in the mid-70s and  so many of the good things in my own life can be tracked back to that special time with that…

Advance review from Publishers Weekly; book launches August 2020, available for preorder now in both a trade hardcover and a limited edition signed by all the contributors.