Narrative Concerning Authentic Sightings of the Krampus.
We were midway through the Wigilia dinner and all that was left of the carp were its whiskers. It was …
Tag Archives: Children
Book Review: Susan Hill’s Dolly.
[The following contains spoilers.] If Susan Hill remains nostalgic for the traditional English ghost story, she usually sets the coordinates …
Media Review: Tesco Magazine.
With over 2,055,391 readers across Britain, Tesco Magazine is the fourth largest circulating magazine in the country (three of Sky’s …
The House Across the Street (A Story for Halloween).
This morning the breakfast buffet which awaited Ted Worthington included fresh cherries, and he piled his bowl with them. Ana, …
Droneland.
The drone was floating over the school after mid-morning break. By the time that the school had once again settled …
Memento Vitae.
My friend Noah is a filmmaker and he occasionally consults me whenever he is short of ideas for a film. …
This Is The Country You Live In.
His daughter, Haley, was to blame. Haley was only three, however, and it is generally considered unreasonable to blame a …
Christian Theology and the Easter Bunny.
The first missionaries to set foot in Anglo-Saxon England attempted to render Christmas and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection satisfactory …
Museum Review: Interview with Ankhhor.
This morning I went to the opening of the new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland – “Fascinating Mummies” …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Chasing Dragons.
Tychy is initially inclined to take a back seat in this review, in a quite literal sense, for I have …
Tourist Review (10): The NASA Lunar Sample.
Our Dynamic Earth is “an amazing adventure” and “an interactive journey” which they keep in a big tent around the …
The Enchanted Forest.
Over a hundred miles of forest waited for us, every leaf and twig ready to be picked up and inspected. …
An Idle Comparison of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] When reflecting upon the making of her Booker Prize nominated bestseller Room (2010) for the …
Book Review: Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] If Toni Morrison’s Sethe cut her infant daughter’s throat with a handsaw to spare her …
The Devil On Your Back (7/7). The Concert.
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
