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I love all forms of horror, in whichever media’s available to me e.g. films, books, games and soundtracks etc.

I like quiet, spooky horror, both psychological and supernatural. I also like loud, even splattery horror, both psychological and supernatural. As long as it entertains and/or informs.

I’ve realised, over the past few years that I’m quite seasonal with my reading/viewing habits.

October and the lead up to Halloween find me looking towards more modern horrors. As a teenager, I was weaned on magazines like Fangoria, which has just been raised from the dead to positive reviews and even includes a paperback range of novels and one film so far. This is where I cut my teeth on all things creepy, and nostalgia plays it’s part too.

Autumn will gradually fade into winter, and I will inevitably turn towards ghost stories from both past masters and modern practitioners. Here, I turn to my friends from Swan River Press, Tartarus and Zagava to name but a few. Though I also like to read the classics in old, dusty volumes, printed when the authors of these texts were alive to see the strange fruits of their labours.

The world may be a scary, dangerous place right now, but as fans of fictional horrors that go bump in the dark, we have never had it so good.