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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 under my mortal name of Rhydderch Wilson. Here’s an excerpt from one of them… *** When Luke woke up his first thought was that it…
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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 novel DEEP LEVEL is embarking on its first ever tour. Like any proud parent about to see their child off into the unknown, I’m a…
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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 last night. He is literally NOT IN THIS MOVIE, and yet he has pride of place on the poster. But why? One possible explanation for…
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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 first novel by Gertrude Trevelyan, already an award-winning writer, and was published in 1932 to (mostly) stunning reviews. It’s about a woman who buys a…
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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 seared into my memory. All the subsequent scenes of them falling over and hitting themselves in the head with slingshots I saw through that prism.…
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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 and yet I’d never found a single one. I was starting to wonder if I was doing something wrong. Every morning I’d harness up…
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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 reads pretty much nothing but sci-fi. I tell him that one day, in his late 40s in fact, he’ll discover the joys of Russian prison…
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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 the same day, in the same place and to the same parents. Incredible. We are both writers. By day, I work as a commercial scriptwriter…
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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 friends who stumble upon a secret Victorian underground network beneath the streets of London. They set out to explore it, only to discover that some…
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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 costumes, dodgy FX and hammy performances. Watch it a second time having read up on it – or, better still, having seen Marty Langford and…
