RICHARD E. ROCK

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 and dangerous place. Perhaps the same could be said of Tyler. Friendly and accommodating on the outside but a raging hellstorm of murderous intent within.…

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 my ads.” Just to clarify, it’s not just nieces voicing commercials we fear. It could be any relative/friend/acquaintance of the client. Ads should always be…

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! You know who the perfect person to voice this campaign would be?” We contact their agent and get a quote. We pitch it to the…

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 be fooled because The Sixth Sense this ain’t. This is far more visceral stuff. Our young hero is Jamie Conklin, but he doesn’t stay young…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…