Author: Richard E. Rock

  • SALEM RECOMMENDS: THE CRY OF THE LAKE BY CHARLIE TYLER

    If I ever meet Charlie Tyler in person I’m going to keep a safe distance. A lake on the surface is calm and serene, but underneath it is a dark…

  • ADVENTURES IN RADIO ADVERTISING pt.2

    When you work in radio advertising, as I do, there’s a certain kind of horror that descends on you whenever a client says: “…and I’d like my niece to voice…

  • ADVENTURES IN RADIO ADVERTISING pt.1

    When we do a celebrity voice advertising campaign in radio, this is how it usually works… A business wants to advertise. We come up with an idea. We think, “Hey!…

  • SALEM RECOMMENDS: LATER by STEPHEN KING

    In horror maestro Stephen King’s latest (see what I did there?), a young boy who lives with his single mother realises he can see dead people. Sound familiar? But don’t…

  • CHANGE ANTHOLOGY

    Greetings friends. I hope this correspondence finds you well. My writing group has released an anthology entitled CHANGE. It features two short stories by my good (and bad) self, albeit…

  • DEEP LEVEL IS GOING ON TOUR

    Over the past couple of months I’ve been busily sending books out to reviewers and completing questionnaires for bloggers – and now the time has almost come… My debut horror…

  • REVIEW: EWOKS – THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR

    Check out the above poster. See that mean-looking human dude in the middle brandishing a blaster? I have absolutely no idea who that is, and I only watched this film…

  • REVIEW: APPIUS and VIRGINIA by GE TREVELYAN

    Warning: this review has more spoilers than a boy racer convention! The story of Appius and Virginia is as interesting as the story in Appius and Virginia. It was the…

  • REVIEW: CARAVAN OF COURAGE: AN EWOK ADVENTURE

    Think the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi are cute? I don’t. They were going to burn Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca alive and eat them. That scene is…

  • A MOMENT IN THE SUN

    A SHORT STORY BY RICHARD E. ROCK It’s a fact of life that dead bodies are pretty much always found by either joggers or dog walkers. I was doing both…