Last Days is such a powerful
horror novel. It scared me. Fascinated me. And it kept me turning the pages.After reading an abundance of
horror, I should be immune to fictional scares. But this story about Kyle
Freeman, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker commissioned by a mysterious
individual to make a documentary about a sinister cult known as The Temple of
Last Days, is electrifying.
The plot serves as the adroit vessel that contains Nevill’s beautiful yet terrifying symphony of eerie images that would make my
hair (if I had any) stand on end. Very few can write scary scenes like Nevill. It reminded me of when I created
and co-hosted a ghost-hunting TV series for BBC Look North. Thankfully, unlike Kyle,
the ghosts never followed me home…
Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult―with creepy consequences
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was a massacre including the death of its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Kyle's brief is to explore the paranormal myths surrounding…
John Wyndham changed my life. I read Wyndham’s The
Night of the Triffids when I was thirteen: it ignited a craving of my own to write
apocalyptic novels like Wyndham.
This wonderful biography of
Wyndham charts his path from awkward, maybe even almost otherworldly boy to the
maelstrom of World War 2, where he was plunged into battles to free Europe from
the Nazis. These harrowing experiences surely shaped his fiction, where
civilization could be torn asunder in a heartbeat. Binns’ biography is
detailed, sympathetic, and deeply insightful. It embraces his personal life as
much as it describes his extraordinary success as a writer.
If I wrote a love letter to Wyndham,
I’d be a proud man if I could pen something half as good as Binns' Hidden
Wyndham.
Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos. In Hidden Wyndham, Amy Binns reveals the woman who was the inspiration for his strong-minded heroines. Their secret love affair sustained this gentle and desperately shy man through failure, war, and, ultimately, success. Hidden Wyndham shows how Wyndham's own disturbing war experiences - witnessing the destruction of London in the Blitz then as part of the…
Darlington vividly evokes the industrial city of Sheffield, England,
where an extraordinary musical movement flowered in the 70s against a backdrop
of urban decay and steel foundries.
Groups of young people were so eager to create music that they spurned
the time-consuming labor of learning to play guitars, instead opting for
easy-to-play synthesizers. They spawned a new breed of strange music and groups
with strange names: Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Clock DVA.
Darlington delivers a satisfyingly detailed forensic examination of these
experimental synth bands and their songs. The book captures a time when
Sheffield, a city near where I live, made steel for the world – and made music
for those who love the wonderful and the outlandish.
Sheffield in the late-1970s was isolated from what was happening in London in the same way that Liverpool had been in 1963. A unique generation of electro-experimental groupings evolved in the former Steel City around Cabaret Voltaire and The Future. The Future split into two factions, Clock DVA and The Human League. Then The Human League split into two further factions, Heaven 17, and The Human League as we now know them, fronted by Philip Oakey with Joanne Catherall and Susan Sulley.
Dare became one of the most iconic albums of the eighties; the album by which Human League are…
A violent post-apocalyptic horror novel. Everyone
over the age of nineteen is psychologically transformed into violent killers.
And nobody under the age of nineteen is safe.
Running through the burning ruins
of cities is seventeen-year-old Nick Aten. He is fleeing tens of thousands of
adults who will, if they catch him, tear him apart.
Nick will learn that at the heart of this
global catastrophe is an eternal mystery—one that lives within us and shapes
our lives. And, ultimately, each and every one of us will feel its irresistible
power.
