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Greetings from the edge, I have been the very busiest of busy bees this week. I posted the first of my “Tropes Under the Knife” pieces, where I turn my perceptive and only slightly sardonic gaze on one of horror cinema’s most blood-soaked sacred cows: the Final Girl. It’s already had a fair few eyeballs…
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Greetings from the edge, So, I have been very busy. I have started to get into a new skirmish-based tabletop wargame called Death Fields Arena, brought to us by Wargames Atlantic. It’s free to play, and the models won’t set you back a week’s petrol money. You can be a cool kid and download the…
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“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” ~ Ecclesiastes 1:9 Greetings from the edge, It has been argued, by storytellers far more prolific and qualified than I, that there are really only a handful of stories humans keep telling over and…
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Greetings from the edge, I spend an unreasonable amount of time watching horror movies, reading about them, and consuming more horror literature than is technically advisable. If there’s enough time left in the day, I’ll play a horror TTRPG or read a horror comic too. The reason I bring this up is simple: I know…
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Greetings from the furnace, The hottest place in the solar system is not, as you might have understandably believed, Venus, which, although further from the Sun than Mercury, is so unspeakably hot that you can melt lead on its surface. No, the hottest place in the known solar system is in fact a broom cupboard…
