Mark West
The Piper’s Children, by Iain Henn
I am pleased to be part of the blog tour for Iain Henn’s new novel from…
Temporary hiatus
Unfortunately, the Strange Tales site is going into a temporary hiatus but will return at some…
The Name On The Bullet, by John Dean
I am pleased to be the first port of call on the latest blog tour from…
Ten Most Memorable Times At The Movies
This MEME originally did the rounds way back when but I thought it’d be nice to…
The Restless Bones – a bit of nostalgia
Back in the day, when I was at Junior school, we had a thing called The…
If You Think Reading Is Boring…
Regular readers of the blog will know I’ve been writing my own stories since I was…
“Don’t Go Back” – Happy Book Birthday!
Although it doesn’t seem quite possible, my debut mainstream thriller Don’t Go Back, published by those…
The Shelter, by James Everington – Redux Reviews 2
Welcome to the second edition of the thread where I revisit reviews of books by friends…
The Tooth Fairy, by Graham Joyce (a review)
In a new edition of the occasional series, I want to tell you about a book…
Review for STILL WATERS RUN
I’m happy to report that my fourth mainstream thriller, Still Waters Run from The Book Folks is doing okay…
The Fourteenth Annual Westies – review of the year 2022
Well, this really has been a year of extremes for me (losing my Dad and seeing…
Nostalgic For My Childhood – Christmas Annuals (part 6)
“Christmas is coming!” Me & Tracy, Christmas 1977 – look at how chuffed I am, I’ve…
Still Waters Run, by Mark West
I’m pleased to announce that Still Waters Run, my fourth mainstream thriller published by The Book Folks, is…
A White Christmas on Winter Street, by Sue Moorcroft
Regular readers of the blog will know I’ve been friends with Sue Moorcroft since we first met at…
Halloween Horrors (Painted Movie Posters)
It’s Halloween, when all the ghosts and ghouls come calling (usually for chocolate), when the evenings…
The Secret Of Phantom Lake, by William Arden
2014 marked the fiftieth anniversary of The Three Investigators being published and, to celebrate, I re-read and compiled…
New Nightmares – Horror Writing School
Alex Davis, the mastermind behind the fantastic Edge/Sledge Lit conventions at Derby Quad (which I’ve written…
An 80s Newspaper Clipping
A few weeks ago, I was flicking through my copy of Skeleton Crew and found this newspaper clipping. …
An Interview and Writing Advice
A few weeks back, I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the good people at…
The Back Garden Play In 1982
Back in November 2020, I blogged about the photo-stories I used to produce (which you can…
Yet More Look-In Cover Art
In 2016 I wrote a Nostalgic post about Look-In (which you can read here), a much…