Featured Work

On this page, you will find examples of and links to various pieces I have produced, including fiction, articles, interviews, podcasts and YouTube videos. The list will be regularly updated with both older items and any new pieces I have had published.


Feature: The Great Year Long 90s Movie Challenge
Following on from 2020's 80s Movie Challenge World Geekly News decided to run another year-long movie challenge for 2021, and ...
Article: The Enduring Appeal of Shrek
Following a rather mean-spirited takedown of the family favourite 2001 animated film by a national newspaper on the 20th birthday ...
Guest Posts for Horrified Magazine
Horrified is a brand new web magazine which focusses on British Horror and features articles and short stories from a ...
UFO Article for Chine Magazine
I've written a piece, albeit under the pseudonym Eliza Hindergraph, about a UFO sighting for Chine, a special edition magazine ...
Guest Post: Haunted Generation – Felt Trips
Felt Trips is a collaborative feature on Bob Fischer's Haunted Generation website in which his readers are invited to send ...
Feature: The Great Year Long 80s Movie Challenge
For 2020 over at World Geekly News, we've given ourselves the challenge of watching and writing about 50 of the ...
Article: Cultish Club – Black Moon Rising
Cultish Club is World Geekly News' newest feature in which we revisit the films which have become somewhat passed-by over ...
Feature: Nostalgia Done Right
Nostalgia Done Right is World Geekly News' occasional look at the films and shows which trade in retro-goodness but don't ...
Feature: human:KIND
human:KIND is a semi-regular feature created for World Geekly News to address personal issues which affect us all, the things ...
List: Must See TV – The Shows That Kept Us Gripped To The End
Written for World Geeky News while I was waiting for the final episode of Doctor Who's twelfth season to air, ...
Book Review: Possessed by Peter Laws
I've been reading Peter Laws' supernaturally tinged crime thrillers, the Matt Hunter series since it launched with Purged in 2017 ...
Short Story: Grey Mary
This was written to be read aloud at a Ghost Story event in Manchester just a week before Christmas 2019 ...
Article: Badger Folk Tales From Around The World
Author and Folklore Thursday co-creator Willow Winsham commissioned me to write this for their website after participating in the weekly ...
Film Review: Doctor Sleep
I had a rare chance to get out to the cinema and see a film early in its release schedule ...
Short Story: Kick Off The Sunday Shoes
This story was inspired after I watched a film at home and then put a humorous post in a Facebook ...
Film Retrospective: Carnival of Souls (1962)
I review Herk Harvey's hugely influential film as part of World Geekly News 31 Days of Horror 2019 event and ...
Film Retrospective: Martin (1978)
A review of George A Romero's disturbing, yet thought-provoking vampire film, Martin. Written for World Geekly News' for day 13 ...
Video: Paul Picks… Three Horror Posters
Recorded for a competition by the HorrorHands YouTube channel, in this video I tell some fun and fairly personal stories ...
Interview: Something At The Window
Published by Ginger Nuts of Horror in 2019 this article is part a nostalgic look back at how a scary ...
Theatre Review: The Haunting of Blaine Manor
It's not often I get the chance to write theatre reviews so I jumped at the chance to do one ...
Film Review: Yesterday
World Geeky News sent me to watch this fantasy musical rom-com, a coming together of the songs of The Beatles, ...
Article: Looking Back At Scream! Comic
Originally written as a rare non-fiction post for my Badgers Crossing website, this nostalgic look back at one of the ...
Short Story: Evanescence
This was specially written for a Ghost Story For Christmas event in Manchester in 2018 and performed at the event ...
Feature: Geeks vs Loneliness
This feature was started by Den of Geek editor Simon Brew as a safe place for readers to discuss personal ...
Music Review: Television Themes by Matt Berry
I wrote this review of Matt Berry's album of cover versions for World Geekly News in 2018. Somehow, it found ...
Article: A Geek’s Guide To Whisky Tasting
Our ethos at World Geekly News is that if you enjoy anything enough to get enthusiastic about it, then you ...
Video: 10 Favourite Nonfiction Horror Books
In my first attempt at speaking before the camera for YouTube, I chose ten nonfiction horror books and explained why ...
Graphic Novel Review: Conspiracy Of Ravens
A review of a Leah Moore, John Reppion and Sally Jane Thompson's fantastical adventure story which is aimed at children ...
Film Review: Power Of Grayskull
When I first joined Kickstarter one of the early projects I backed, a documentary about the cultural impact of Masters ...
List: Ten Unstoppable One Person Armies
Written in the early days of World Geeky News, this piece is a fun look at ten movie characters who ...
List: Six Essential Elements Of A Shark Movie
This was written for the launch day of the website World Geekly News on 14th August 2018. I had recently ...
Article: Revisiting a Classic Fighting Fantasy Book
Written for Den of Geek in 2018. In a semi-successful attempt to prove that the pen is mightier than the ...
Short Story: Cloakroom Duty
Partly based on real events I experienced when I was a teenager (the non-supernatural parts), this M.R. James inspired ghost ...
Film Retrospective: Looking Back at Stay Tuned
Written for Den of Geek in 2018, this article, looking back at the 1990s satire Stay Tuned, marked my first ...
List: Examining the Many Movie Songs of Bryan Adams
Den of Geek editor Simon Brew encouraged writers to pitch ideas to him no matter how mundane or outlandish, saying ...
Short Story: The Grey Path
This is my longest short story by quite a long way. It features Debbie Carter and her dad Tim, who ...
List: Public Information Films from the 70s and 80s
The second of two lists I wrote for Den of Geek on one of my favourite topics, the more-than-a-little-bit disturbing ...
Short Story: The Conductor
One of my very early attempts at fiction, The Conductor was originally written for a Den of Geek horror story ...