2024 paranormal fantasy, fifth of a nine-book series. As Lorelei Clay tries to come to terms with being the guardian deity of a small town, various problems demand her attention.
2002 horror, dir. Neal Marshall, Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd: IMDb / allmovie. There are scarier things than squaddies in the woods tonight.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list analysis and competition resolution. (Note that this ends today.)
2000 horror, dir. John Fawcett, Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle: IMDb / allmovie. Puberty is hell.
1994 mystery. Sheila Malory is on the committee of the Taviscombe Festival, which has been turned by incoming luvvies from a pleasant local event into a big fuss with imported performers. But one of the most irksome of those incomers turns up with his head bashed in… US vt Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murders.
1981 horror, dir. John Landis, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter: IMDb / allmovie. Two American college students go hiking on the Yorkshire moors. One of them comes back.
More gaming with nearby friends.
1981 horror, dir. Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Patrick MacNee: IMDb / allmovie. After Karen the news anchor has a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, she and her husband go to her therapist's retreat centre in the countryside…
2022 SF, first of a loose series. Dr Alexi Sur enlists with the Pax Galactica Corps, the first-contact arm of Universal Society that got in touch with Earth ten years ago but has been largely ignored. But it turns out they don't just want a trauma surgeon, they want a reality TV star.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various string parsings. (Note that this ends today.)
After several months of clashing schedules and in one case a breakdown, back to the boardgame café.
2025 modern fantasy. Dr Saffy Walden is Head of Magic at Chetwood, a long-established public school; most of her time is spent in administration, but she does teach Invocation to a select group in their final year. Everyone goes to a lot of trouble to keep the children safe from demons
1948 Regency romance. Gilly, or Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware the Duke of Sale, was a sickly child, and has been brought up in luxury but thoroughly insulated from the world. About to come of age, and feeling his arranged marriage locking him further into other people's expectations, he determines to live just for a little while as an ordinary person.
Back to ACWest, which has returned to the Ramada, a small and comfortable venue. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.
2025 SF. Erika Kiora is an exploration corps officer whose last posting ended in disaster and the loss of her ship. But war is brewing, and the government needs heroes, so she's given a new ship to survey for a possible new route past the front lines.
1942 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Simone Simon, Kent Smith: IMDb / allmovie. What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string and set manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)
2021 romantic fantasy. Thesan Wain is in charge of Astronomy at Schola, the preeminent magical school of Albion. Isembard [sic] Fortier is a specialist in protective magics, seconded to teach in part so that he can provide protection to the children of Council members.
1941 horror, dir. George Waggner, Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains: IMDb / allmovie. Even a man who is pure in heart…
1955 romantic drama, dir. Delbert Mann, Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair; IMDb / allmovie. "College girls are one step from the street, I tell you. My son Joseph wife, she type on the typewriter - one step from the street!"
1992 SF, first of its series. Mistworld is a marginally-habitable planet, but it's the one place Imperial Outlaws can go without being at constant risk from bounty hunters. The Empire is not happy about this.