RICHARD E. ROCK

Imagine sinking into a warm, luxurious bath full of silky, caressing bubbles while, around you, sweetly scented candles gently illuminate the room with a soft, orange light. That right there is the best metaphor I can come up with to describe Liv Kristine’s singing voice. It’s a voice that beguiles and seduces, and it’s one…

In this extract from my debut horror novel DEEP LEVEL, Roz, who is enjoying breakfast with her friends Syeeda and Ffion, offers up a theory on a particular aspect of modern popular culture… *** As Syeeda was talking, Ffion was fishing her mobile phone out of her bag. She placed it on the table in…

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 not, friends, because author Polly J Mordant has succeeded, and then some. When we first meet our protagonist Emma, she is on the run from…

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 beyond their craft. With that in mind, here’s 10 fun facts about me. If you keep up with my blog then you probably already know…

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 be? Allow me to explain… The year is 2002 and I get a phone call from a friend. He tells me that some guy he’s…

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 target audience for this film. So what the hell was I doing watching it? My girlfriend and I are big Scooby Doo fans and we’d…

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 Michelle Cook’s TIPPING POINT seems close enough to reach out and touch. Climate change is ravaging the Earth, protest is outlawed, the police can brutalise…

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 an adventure yarn about a bunch of fine, patriotic chaps saving the realm from a murderous Satanic cult who want to start WWIII, this is…

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 be remiss of me if I failed to state right from the off that Dennis Wheatley really does know how to write an exciting book.…