I’ve got the full quote of the line from Aliens:
“We’d better get back ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly. ”
Newt, a little girl, is the sole survivor on a planet of human settlers that has been ravaged by the aliens. Very spooky in context. But lose that context and […]
Horror can be a gentle and long build-up to climax incorporating atmosphere and emotion along with story details we already know — or it can be contained in only a single line of sense-exciting prose. I like those mono-scenes that say and do so much to make us shiver or shudder or at the very […]
An anthology of stories as recalled by Edward Perkins who was a child during The Great Depression in Texas. Eddie Perkins’ childhood memories come alive in this book and are recounted by Marva, his daughter. She calls the tales true but “tall”, as fact is embroidered with a little well-founded fiction to bring us a […]
I read this on a BBC website today and wonder if any editors speed read whilst working. I know I don’t. Indeed, I don’t think it possible for me to read anything between 1000 and 1400 words per minute anyway, let alone edit them. And I have to admit that I’m hard pushed to believe […]
I know it’s not technically reading, but I discovered this today. Good, eh? It gives me a chance to indulge my weakness for the well-endowed voice — and especially the rough-velvet timbres of Sir Richard Burton — performing auditory massage on my poor, abused ears. Nothing like a Thomas classic while packing ready for a […]