Horror, for me, lives in audio. The Man in Black or, as it used to be called, Fear on Four, has run on BBC Radio 4 for decades. The idea was, and is, simple; the Man in Black is the mysterious host of a short radio play, introducing it, setting the stage then coming back …
I don’t do multi-player computer games. Or rather I try to but every single time I have in the past, it’s ended badly. Paying five pounds for the privilege of being fragged over and over by an apathetic 15 year old playing Quake in one of the last net cafes in the UK wasn’t particularly …
I’m a sucker for this time of year because your perception of time alters, the festive three day period sitting in a time zone all by itself. I’m writing this on a Friday and it feels like a Wednesday, because Greenwich Christmas Time has landed this week and as it always does, has thrown me …
I grew up on rails. To be precise, I grew up on Rails Shooters, a particular type of computer game which seemed, for a while, to be the exclusive province of the arcades I was never old enough (Despite being 6’1 by the time I was 14) to go into and the last but one …