‘A World of Memento Mori’
Damian Mark Whittle
Damian Mark Whittle
‘A Guardian and a Warning’ ‘But which? Which one was he?’ ‘He was both’ Damian Mark Whittle
When I was a child, my family lived for a while in a flat above a video shop. This struck everyone at school as very odd (though to be honest,… Read more ‘Strangely Sweet Memories’ →
So much folklore, from fairy tales to urban myths, Brothers Grimm to Quatermass, serves to remind us that the world is both wondrous and terrifying. You can’t have one without… Read more ‘Death Among the Flowers’ →
The works of the writer Nigel Kneale have had a long and lasting influence. In the 1950’s, his three Quatermass serials for the BBC, featuring the forthright Professor Bernard Quatermass, were hugely popular dramas that tapped… Read more Folk Horror Tales: Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and Quatermass (1979) →
It Hatches Inside the egg, Scott is neither awake nor asleep. Held tight within the folds of membrane, his consciousness is drifting in blissful detachment. He’s aware of the changes in… Read more It Hatches →
A Wonderful Death Beautiful Grotesque A Nightmare for the Children The Organic in the Abstract Meat Tree Fingers Walled Up Underneath Happy Halloween It’s alive! Damian