Reviews and writing from the past but here for your viewing… should you be that way inclined. Varied in content and the like but an archive for perusal…
McFarland Classics 1985 (2001 Reprint) 262 pages £23.75 ISBN 0-7864-1197-X Clearly written with genuine enthusiasm for the subject, Science Fiction Films of the Seventies provides a chronological analysis of the decade’s key films. Never seeking to be exhaustive, Anderson’s reviews are a hotch-podge of historical information, anecdotes and criticism which make for occasionally eclectic reading….
Do myths reflect the age in which they are told? Early folk tales tell of humans changing into animals, supernatural visions and superhuman feats. From the around the world, from the Greek Minotaur, the Garuda of Indian mythology through to Elizabethan bestiaries, creatures which inspire fear, awe and inspiration have formed a substantial part of…
Hodder and Stoughton, 2002, 336pp, £6.99. ISBN:0 340 82446 8 Originally published in 1975, and in 1976 as Visitors From Space in the UK Re-released to coincide with the film by Mark ‘Arlington Road’ Pellington starring the permanently angst-ridden Richard Gere, The Mothman Prophecies comes wearing its film tie-in badge with pride. The author even…
Ed Stephen Jones – Robinson, 2004, ISBN 1-84119-926-5, £7.99, 628pp The Mammoth Book of Vampires does exactly what it says on the cover – it’s a huge tome and it’s full of vampires. It’s so big you could use it as a mallet to help hammer a stake home should you encounter one of the…
Charlaine Harris Orbit, 2004, 279pp, £6.99, ISBN: 1-84149-300-7 Well there’s no abating the tide of the FFFFFFF’s (the Ferocious Faux-Feminist Female Fantôme Fighting Fictions). Plucky Sookie is back in action to eye up the fit chaps, feign outrage that men should have indecent thoughts about her (despite, and we have it on good authority from…
