Coming Soon
Three new books coming out over the next year. All finished. There is a forth, but I’m keeping that one back for a while. Naturally, its the one I am … Continue reading
The Ghosts of Ash and the Nuclear Spectre (Part Two)
If Hiroshima haunts through absence, the Titanic haunts through overexposure. The Titanic has been replayed, retold, reconstructed, and reanimated so many times that it barely qualifies as an event anymore. It … Continue reading
Namaste, or: What Keeps Coming Back (in a Slightly Worse Mood) (Part Three)
On the way down, the sound followed for a while, then thinned, then vanished. It didn’t echo. That was the strangest part. For all its droning insistence, it left … Continue reading
Haunted When the Minutes Drag.
I’m not usually one for blowing my own trumpet. If there’s one thing that is going to ever scupper my chances as being a well known author, its that I … Continue reading
The Gentle Violence of Obsolescence Vs the Thingness of Stuff (Part Two)
Digital obsolescence exposes the lie at the heart of planned decay. The problem is not entropy. It is compatibility. The object has not failed. The system has moved. This produces … Continue reading
The Phantom Hitcher Hiker (Again)
Further thoughts – and new material – about a compulsive urban legend. The original essay is in the book ‘Haunted When the Minute Drag’ from my Book Shop. The Phantom … Continue reading
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