Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 31st: My own paranormal experiences

Holy Moly, I've actually done it, produced content every day during the month of October. It's been stressful at times to be adhering to a daily deadline, but I've made it work, and here we are. Today's topic is straying away from fiction slightly, and focuses on some of my spookiest personal experiences. Just for …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 30th: Ravenholm

You join me once again for my penultimate entry as I write about some of my favourite moments in scary and horror fiction. Today's article features on a particular level of a particular game; "We Don't Go To Ravenholm" in Half-Life 2. I'm going to sum up the plot that leads the player to Ravenholm, …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 29th: War of the Worlds

You join me once again as I enter the final three days of Blogtober. This has been a difficult month for many as pandemic restrictions seem to be tightening almost everywhere and we approach what is sure to be one of the bleakest winters we've ever had... But anyway today's topic is about um... oh... …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 28th: Us

You join me once again as I complete the fourth week as I write about some of my favourite bits of scary and horror fiction every day during October. Today's topic is another sublime entry from director Jordan Peele. Where Get Out was a horror focusing on racism, Us is a horror focusing on class. …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 27th: Dark

You join me once again as I'm getting close to the finishing line as I talk about some of my favourite bits of scary and horror fiction every day during October. The clocks have gone back in the UK so it's fitting that today's topic is the German Netflix TV show, Dark. Dark is set …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 26th: Hail to the Thief

You join me once again, for the record 26th time, as I keep pushing out content on my blog to talk about some of my favourite bits of horror and scary fiction. Today's topic is Radiohead's sixth studio album, Hail to the Thief. Of all the albums I could have picked, I could have chosen …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 25th: 2001: A Space Odyssey

You join me for the 25th time! I've now equalled my all-time record for daily content. The last time I managed this was on Christmas Day 2016 when I completed my fourth songs advent calendar. This was a series I did (for 4 years) where I did a new song (mostly covers) every day from …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 24th: Salad Fingers

You join me as I have just a week to go after completing today's article, as I continue to talk about my favourite moments of scary and horror fiction over the course of October. Today's topic is the online Flash cartoon, Salad Fingers; one of the early cult online series. The cartoon was created by …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 23rd: The Cleaner

You join me as Manchester enters tier 3 lockdown measures, which means you can only get Covid in a pub if you're not eating, but I'm still ploughing on through my favourite moments in scary and horror fiction all throughout October. Today's topic is a bit out there and focuses on a group role-playing drama …

Blogtober: Scary Fiction… Oct 22nd: The Dark Somnium

You join me as I get started on my fourth week of blog posts talking about some of my favourite bits of scary and horror fiction every day throughout October. Today's topic is the YouTube channel, the Dark Somnium, whose often longform creepypasta stories are not too dissimilar to the Nosleep Podcast - indeed there …