I am a writer, critic and the editor of I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R Murray Gilchrist for the British Library’s excellent Tales of the Weird series 1/x
Saw a guy when I was in Italy with a shirt that said “Anti Antifa” and it took every fibre of my being (and, to be fair, the fact he was fucking huge) not to go “so you’re fa?”
Went to see Sleeper last night. A band who’re inexplicably celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of their first album despite it only being released *checks notes* oh
Had to come back from Glasgow the long way today, which means driving past the giant horsehead sculptures of the Kelpies. At night, from a moving vehicle, they look absolute fucking demonic.
After the sad demise of Dead Reckonings the team at @whatsleepsbeneath.com were kind enough to offer some of my older reviews a new home. I’ve just noticed that this one for the excellent Women’s Weird is now up on the site!
After the sad demise of Dead Reckonings the team at @whatsleepsbeneath.com were kind enough to offer some of my older reviews a new home. I’ve just noticed that this one for the excellent Women’s Weird is now up on the site!
People come up to me in the village street and they shout through the bars of my carriage. “Pietersen,” they growl in their proletarian way. “Why do you play these miserable and difficult games?”
It is, I condescend, because I myself am difficult and miserable.
Dark Souls 3 is perhaps the best game of all time but DS2 has a strange charm, a dreamlike quality that’s there right from the start whilst also being absolutely brutal.
