Author: Richard E. Rock

• REVIEW: WHEN ANGELS FEAR by POLLY J. MORDANT

  The cover pitches this book as a ‘supernatural thriller’. Not quite a crime novel, not quite a horror, a ‘supernatural thriller’ is a tricky thing to pull off. But worry…

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• 10 FUN FACTS ABOUT RICHARD E. ROCK

  I always enjoy discovering quirky scraps of information about writers I admire. It offers a valuable insight of them as human beings and helps to expand them in my mind…

• DOING IT BACKWARDS – HOW I BECAME A WRITER

  I became a paid, professional writer long before I had ever even thought about writing a novel. I know what you’re thinking; that doesn’t make any sense. How can it…

• SALEM RECOMMENDS: DAPHNE and VELMA

  Before we get stuck into this review, let me start off by saying that yes, I am well aware that as a 50-year-old man I am most definitely NOT the…

• SALEM RECOMMENDS: TIPPING POINT by MICHELLE COOK

  In recent weeks I’ve reviewed two books that were published in 1960, and for this one I’ve bypassed the present day altogether and headed straight for 2035. The future in…

• REVIEW: THE L-SHAPED ROOM by LYNNE REID BANKS

  This is the second book written in 1960 that I’ve reviewed within the space of a week, and boy, they couldn’t be more different! Whereas Dennis Wheatley’s The Satanist was…

• REVIEW: THE SATANIST by DENNIS WHEATLEY

  This was my first Wheatley and three things stood out… The incredible amount of exposition in the opening chapters. The incredible amount of drinking. The racism. That said, it would…

• REVIEW: LITTLE MONSTERS

  Alright. I admit it. I’m a MASSIVE Lupita Nyong’o fanboy. I’ll watch anything that she stars in*, so when I got wind of a comedy horror movie that had her…

• “I actually wrote a good book!” – the week DEEP LEVEL went on tour

  On Monday 22nd February my debut horror novel DEEP LEVEL packed a suitcase, said goodbye and headed out on tour, leaving his tearful daddy (ie me!) behind. It was a…