Tuesday, 9 September 2025

London Underground Horror Films and Folklore - talk at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies




Another date for the diary. For the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, an in-depth study of horror films and folklore on the London Underground that will include Quatermass and the Pit, Bulldog Jack , Death Line and various other chthonic chillers. To be held at the Horse Hospital in London on Tuesday 14 October. I shall also be selling copies of my latest book Mansion of Gloom.

Book though the link here.


Sunday, 7 September 2025

Hastings Book Fair and Talk at Kensington Central Library



Mansion of Gloom will be on sale at Hastings Book Fair on Saturday 13 September in the refurbished Observer building between 11.00 and 16.00. Details here. The book's brilliant designer Richard De Pesando will be there together with other examples of his design and typesetting skills. More about Richard here

Also an illustrated talk coming up in London on Thursday 6 November on Mansion of Gloom: the Unsettling Legacy of Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.  It will take place at one of my favourite talk venues the Lecture Theatre (recently refurbished with upgraded equipment) of Kensington Central Library. See here.

See here for details. The £3 entry fee includes a glass of wine or non-alcoholic drink.

Copies of Mansion of Gloom will be on sale.