Last week I argued for the need for openness and honesty in regards to what we tell our young people about the darker aspects of the world. I strongly believe that a well-intentioned lie is not helpful to child or adult in the long run, since young people generally see through our attempts to shield…
Category: horror
Don’t Frighten The Children
A memory returns: one day, I suspect around May 1980, I asked my dad a question. The question had been on my mind for some time as a result of things that I’d heard and read and seen, in books, newspapers and on TV. The question was this: “What will we do if there is…
My first published writing…
Here for your delectation I am going to put up a small piece of writing – the first thing I ever had published, as a teenager, which I recently re-discovered when at my mother’s house. Back in the late Dark Ages (1985, I think) I entered a 500 word maximum horror story competition run by…
Undiagnosis 