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This is my little word garden on the internet—Michael Walters, author (it’s true!). I have a speculative fiction novel, THE COMPLEX, out with Salt Publishing, and I’m deep in the writing of a follow-up. I would love it if you gave it a try.
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- Soft machine (15 June 2025)
- Reconfiguration (1 June 2025)
- Did not finish (30 April 2025)
- Holding (6 April 2025)
- Afire (17 March 2025)
- Super-Cannes (16 March 2025)
- Black Bag (13 March 2025)
- Mickey 17 (9 March 2025)
- Art funnel (7 March 2025)
- What’s good to share? (5 March 2025)
- Glass full (21 February 2025)
- Glutes 2 (30 January 2025)
- Switching (11 January 2025)
- Seen, Read: 2024 (2 January 2025)
- Black Christmas (31 December 2024)
- 2024: Films, books, music (31 December 2024)
- 2024: Life projects review (31 December 2024)
- The House with Laughing Windows (30 December 2024)
- Dario Argento: Panico (30 December 2024)
- Cuckoo (29 December 2024)
- Dark Glasses (28 December 2024)
- Argento’s Dracula (26 December 2024)
- MadS (24 December 2024)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (23 December 2024)
- Giallo (23 December 2024)
- Mother of Tears (22 December 2024)
- A true note (20 December 2024)
- Maniac Cop (16 December 2024)
- Nightmare City (16 December 2024)
- In a Violent Nature (15 December 2024)
- Anna and the Apocalypse (14 December 2024)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (11 December 2024)
- Christmas Bloody Christmas (10 December 2024)
- Violent Night (9 December 2024)
- Saint Maud (8 December 2024)
- The Day of the Beast (5 December 2024)
- The Fearless Vampire Killers (4 December 2024)
- The Appointment (3 December 2024)
- I Saw the TV Glow (2 December 2024)
- Red Rooms (1 December 2024)
- The Card Player (30 November 2024)
- Sleepless (28 November 2024)
- The Phantom of the Opera (26 November 2024)
- Gothic (23 November 2024)
- Dracula (22 November 2024)
- The Eternal Daughter (20 November 2024)
- The Car (19 November 2024)
- Enys Men (18 November 2024)
- Australia (17 November 2024)
- Spirals (21 September 2024)
- Gluteal tendinopathy (and me) (29 August 2024)
- The Stendhal Syndrome (20 August 2024)
- The Black Cat/Trauma (13 August 2024)
- Early summer books (5 August 2024)
- Opera (31 July 2024)
- Phenomena (28 July 2024)
- Something new (24 July 2024)
- Tenebre (12 July 2024)
- Inferno (10 July 2024)
- Suspiria (7 July 2024)
- Deep Red (23 June 2024)
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet (19 June 2024)
- The Cat O’ Nine Tails (16 June 2024)
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (8 June 2024)
- Changing (2 June 2024)
- Darling buds (26 May 2024)
- Gathering ideas (14 May 2024)
- Cornish horrors (11 May 2024)
- Impatience (5 May 2024)
- Ligeia (13 April 2024)
- Physical media (7 April 2024)
- Evening classes (17 March 2024)
- Losing myself (7 March 2024)
- Writing is simple (5 March 2024)
- The joy of making things up (20 February 2024)
- Back to the path (17 February 2024)
- My father died (27 January 2024)
- Nostalgia (13 January 2024)
- Fidelity (7 January 2024)
- Seen, Read: 2023 (1 January 2024)
- Best film discoveries and fiction of 2023 (30 December 2023)
- Reflections (24 December 2023)
- Keep the ghosts happy (25 November 2023)
- Brief bliss (11 November 2023)
- Halloween (1978) (31 October 2023)
- Enemy (2013) (30 October 2023)
- Cloverfield (2008) (29 October 2023)
- You're Next (2011) (28 October 2023)
- Duel (1971) (27 October 2023)
- Return of the Living Dead (1985) (26 October 2023)
- Evil Dead 2 (1987) (25 October 2023)
- Invaders From Mars (1986) (24 October 2023)
- Lifeforce (1985) (23 October 2023)
- Infinity Pool (2023) (22 October 2023)
- Crimes of the Future (2023) (21 October 2023)
- Messiah of Evil (1973) (20 October 2023)
- Don’t Look Now (1973) (19 October 2023)
- The Lair of the White Worm (1988) (18 October 2023)
- Slugs (1988) (17 October 2023)
- Death Ship (1980) (16 October 2023)
- Scream VI (2023) (15 October 2023)
- Scream (2022) (14 October 2023)
- There’s Nothing Out There (1991) (13 October 2023)
- Castle Freak (1995) (12 October 2023)
- Re-Animator (1985) (11 October 2023)
- 65 (2023) (10 October 2023)
- The Pale Blue Eye (2022) (9 October 2023)
- The Exorcist III (1990) (8 October 2023)
- Survival of the Dead (2009) (7 October 2023)
- Diary of the Dead (2007) (6 October 2023)
- Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) (5 October 2023)
- Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975) (4 October 2023)
- The Broken (2007) (3 October 2023)
- The Cursed (2021) (2 October 2023)
- A Haunting in Venice (2023) (1 October 2023)
- Envy (17 September 2023)
- Worth and work (10 September 2023)
- Duality (29 August 2023)
- Eastmouth and other stories (12 August 2023)
- Pick something (11 August 2023)
- Meg 2: The Trench (7 August 2023)
- Open roads and blue skies (5 August 2023)
- Go gently (16 July 2023)
- Angles, curves and spin (30 June 2023)
- Everyman (29 May 2023)
- Bluesky (28 May 2023)
- Author speculation (27 May 2023)
- Inspiration (8 May 2023)
- Walking with ghosts (29 April 2023)
- Puzzles (12 April 2023)
- Matrix (3 April 2023)
- Hospitals (14 March 2023)
- Content apocalypse (21 February 2023)
- Emotional weather (18 February 2023)
- Writing jiggle (22 January 2023)
- Elisa Gabbert on why writers write (31 December 2022)
- Bedrock (31 December 2022)
- Adieu, 2022 (31 December 2022)
- Love and breakages (26 December 2022)
- A dream with Bob Dylan (19 December 2022)
- Chaotic reading (17 December 2022)
- Daily words (17 December 2022)
- Digest (15 December 2022)
- Website updates (14 December 2022)
- The future of my online shizz (6 November 2022)
- Image of a wave (1 November 2022)
- The most important thing to do is (31 October 2022)
- Microblogging (30 October 2022)
- Kardomah (23 July 2022)
- Trust your enthusiasms (17 June 2022)
- ChillerCon UK 2022 (12 June 2022)
- Kindness in retrospect (3 June 2022)
- An oblique strategy (15 April 2022)
- Patreon: one month in (6 March 2022)
- Writing short stories on Patreon (6 February 2022)
- Films, dreams, fiction and writing (22 January 2022)
- Farewell, 2021 (30 December 2021)
- The great adjustment (5 December 2021)
- Keeping the story alive (27 November 2021)
- In the Earth (2021) (31 October 2021)
- Ghostbusters II (1989) (30 October 2021)
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (29 October 2021)
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) (28 October 2021)
- Halloween II (1981) (27 October 2021)
- Planet Terror (2007) (26 October 2021)
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1987) (25 October 2021)
- Scream 4 (2011) (24 October 2021)
- Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) (23 October 2021)
- Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) (22 October 2021)
- Censor (2021) (21 October 2021)
- La Llorona (2019) (20 October 2021)
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) (19 October 2021)
- Night of the Demons (1988) (18 October 2021)
- Saw (2004) (17 October 2021)
- Triangle (2009) (16 October 2021)
- The Crazies (1973) (15 October 2021)
- My Bloody Valentine (1981) (14 October 2021)
- The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971) (13 October 2021)
- Nosferatu (1922) (12 October 2021)
- Salem’s Lot (1979) (11 October 2021)
- Nightmare Beach (1989) (10 October 2021)
- A Quiet Place (2018) (9 October 2021)
- The War of the Worlds (1953) (8 October 2021)
- The Thing (1982) (7 October 2021)
- The Thing From Another World (1951) (6 October 2021)
- Shadow in the Cloud (2020) (5 October 2021)
- Lisa and the Devil (1973) (4 October 2021)
- The Addiction (1995) (3 October 2021)
- Jakob’s Wife (2021) (2 October 2021)
- Werewolves Within (2021) (1 October 2021)
- Horror AND sex! (11 September 2021)
- Stop rushing (9 September 2021)
- A seat in the sun (13 August 2021)
- Auguste (1 August 2021)
- Inland Empire (2007) (30 May 2021)
- Mulholland Drive (2001) (29 May 2021)
- The Straight Story (1999) (27 May 2021)
- Lost Highway (1997) (26 May 2021)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) (24 May 2021)
- Wild at Heart (1990) (18 May 2021)
- Blue Velvet (1986) (12 May 2021)
- Dune (1984) (9 May 2021)
- The Elephant Man (1980) (6 May 2021)
- Eraserhead (1977) (2 May 2021)
- Why read? (23 April 2021)
- Swimming with David Lynch (23 April 2021)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1 April 2021)
- It’s Spring (5 March 2021)
- A flotilla of metaphors (15 February 2021)
- Slippery surfaces (17 January 2021)
- Autumn and The Long Goodbye (9 January 2021)
- My 2020 in books (30 December 2020)
- Language muscles (26 December 2020)
- Why do I write here? (22 December 2020)
- London Gothic, Nicholas Royle (21 December 2020)
- She Dies Tomorrow (2020) (15 December 2020)
- To the Ends of the Earth (2019) (10 December 2020)
- Exit Management, Naomi Booth (7 December 2020)
- A Short Film About Love (1988) (3 December 2020)
- Creepy (2017) (27 November 2020)
- November culture (25 November 2020)
- Jigsaws (22 November 2020)
- Creativity 2.0(.21) (14 November 2020)
- Lockdown, Part 2 (4 November 2020)
- Doctor Sleep (2019) (31 October 2020)
- The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (30 October 2020)
- The Exorcist (1973) (29 October 2020)
- Tenebre (1982) (28 October 2020)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (27 October 2020)
- Land of the Dead (2005) (26 October 2020)
- Christine (1983) (25 October 2020)
- Prom Night (1980) (24 October 2020)
- A Cure for Wellness (2017) (23 October 2020)
- The Dead Center (2019) (22 October 2020)
- It Follows (2015) (21 October 2020)
- The Beyond (1980) (20 October 2020)
- #Alive (2020) (19 October 2020)
- The Mummy (1932) (18 October 2020)
- City of the Living Dead (1980) (17 October 2020)
- Blade (1998) (16 October 2020)
- Cure (1997) (15 October 2020)
- Spring (2014) (14 October 2020)
- Jacob’s Ladder (1991) (13 October 2020)
- Noroi: The Curse (2005) (12 October 2020)
- Berberian Sound Studio (2012) (11 October 2020)
- Piranha (1978) (10 October 2020)
- Fascination (1979) (9 October 2020)
- Vampyres (1974) (8 October 2020)
- Knife+Heart (2018) (7 October 2020)
- Death of a Vlogger (2020) (6 October 2020)
- Pulse (2001) (5 October 2020)
- The Crow (1994) (4 October 2020)
- The Fog (1980) (3 October 2020)
- Atlantics (2019) (2 October 2020)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) (1 October 2020)
- October beckons (30 September 2020)
- In the foothills (20 September 2020)
- 31 Days of Horror, 2020 (6 September 2020)
- Reality Bites (12 July 2020)
- Leaving Rebecca (18 May 2020)
- Website as digital garden (16 May 2020)
- The inner Wonder Woman (21 April 2020)
- My favourite five books of 2019 (17 April 2020)
- A walk around my writer’s block (12 April 2020)
- Escape room (31 March 2020)
- First post, best post (29 January 2020)
- Minimalism (23 November 2019)
- Writing and reviewing (15 November 2019)
- Blogging with Jekyll (14 November 2019)
- On writing ‘The Complex’ (12 July 2019)
- Anomalisa (2015) (3 February 2019)
- Point Break (20 August 2018)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (19 August 2018)
- Exhibition (2013) (15 August 2018)
- High Rise (3 March 2018)
- I like being at home (1 January 2018)
- Red cabbage (31 December 2017)
- Written on the Body, Let the Right One In (30 December 2017)
- Habits (29 December 2017)
- Blogging v2018.0 (28 December 2017)
- It Follows (2014) (8 December 2017)
- Winter (7 December 2017)
- Mindfulness (7 December 2017)