Author: Richard E. Rock

  • SALEM RECOMMENDS: ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

    Here’s the scene: I travel back in time and pay my younger self a visit. He’s 12 years old, his religion is Star Wars, he’s into Marvel Comics and he…

  • INTERVIEW WITH MYSELF

    Hi. I’m Rhydderch Wilson, the mortal counterpart of the immortal horror author Richard E. Rock. I was born in Newcastle in January 1971. By complete coincidence, Richard was born on…

  • A DELVE INTO DEEP LEVEL

    Greetings, friends. Below you will find an excerpt from my debut horror novel DEEP LEVEL, which was published by darkstroke books 1st October 2020. It is the story of four…

  • REVIEW: THE FANTASTIC FOUR (1994) – THE UNRELEASED ROGER CORMAN VERSION

    Watch this film twice and you’ll get two very different experiences. See it the first time as a casual viewer and you’ll behold a low-budget movie with wobbly sets, cheap…

  • SALEM RECOMMENDS: FAITHFUL RUSLAN by GEORGI VLADIMOV

    By the end of the 1930s, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, in his ever blackening state of paranoia, had imprisoned over twelve million people in his notorious “corrective-labour camps”. A vast…

  • REVIEW: THE HAUNTING OF MARGAM CASTLE

    I don’t usually put horror movies in my basket when shopping in my local Sainsburys, but on this particular occasion I felt compelled to make an exception. The reason for…

  • THE NIGHT I SPENT WITH CAPTAIN AMERICA

    Following on from my stint on Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, I remained on the books of Casting Collective, an agency that supplies extras for movies. I never expected to hear…

  • SALEM RECOMMENDS: SPIDER-MAN (1977)

    Before there was any such thing as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or CGI, or Tobey Maguire, there was the Spider-Man live action TV series which ran from 1977 to 1979.…

  • SALEM RECOMMENDS – TRICK OR TREAT

    Trick or Treat, released in 1986, is billed as a horror movie but it isn’t really. It didn’t horrify me anyway, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t devilishly entertaining. Eddie…

  • DEMON POSSESSED BY SPIRIT OF TEENAGE GIRL

    Orobas, a powerful demon estimated to be tens of thousands of years old, has been possessed by the spirit of a teenage girl, according to doctors. The demon, who has…