by Neil | Feb 2, 2008 | Entertainment, Film, Horror, Movies, Review, Thoughts
I finally got round to seeing Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd tells the tale of the demon barber of Fleet street, an early prototype of the serial killer who first appeared in penny dreadfuls of the early 1800s. Cutting his way through a swathe of victims whilst his...by Neil | Jan 29, 2008 | Fiction, Free Online Fiction, Horror, Not Friday Flash Fiction, Random, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Short Stories, Writing
Ok. Currently I’m still ploughing my way through Midnight’s Children and I haven’t been to the cinema for a while nor done anything else other than work. So there’s not much to report. However I do have a story – Wide Open Space –...by Neil | Jan 25, 2008 | Fiction, Free Online Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Short Stories
Silver By Neil Beynon The room was dark. Thick acrid smoke clung to Caerwen’s nose and mouth; she coughed as she stepped over a sleeping body. Rhys, if she wasn’t mistaken. Lurking beneath the smoke was the sticky sweet smell of spilt mead. “You’re Da is over there,”...by Neil | Jan 17, 2008 | Entertainment, Film, Horror, Movies, Review, Richard Matheson, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Wil Smith
Hmmm. I finally got round to seeing the recent film adaption of I Am Legend starring Will Smith. I have to admit I was nervous as to what Hollywood had done to one of my favourite books, I’d avoided other, earlier, adaptions for that reason. And quite...by Neil | Dec 31, 2007 | Books, Fiction, Horror, Iain Banks, Joe Hill, Margaret Atwood, Mitch Albom, Neal Stephenson, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Science Fiction, Writers, Writing
The problem with top fives is that, rather like celebrations, it can be hard to stop and so today we have my Top Five Books What I Read in 2007. The year started off well with a good haul of Neal Stephenson books including The Baroque Cycle, I went through those at a...