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Boardgame review: Final Girl – The Haunting of Creech Manor
A quick post tonight: I did another play through of this solo boardgame based on 80’s horror flicks. This time it’s Poltergeist: you have moved in to Creech Manor and very quickly discover that it is horribly haunted. So you … Continue reading
74, 75?
I was just lying here basking in the sun with Hansine cat, looking at the RuneQuest rpg rules. An illustration struck me suddenly, a line drawing by Luise Perrene or Lisa Free; as familiar as William Church art, something from … Continue reading
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The Letters of M.R. James
There has been a bit of a kerfuffle this week in the Jamesian community after a savage TLS review by A.S.G.Edwards of Casting the Runes: The Letters of M.R.James by Jane Mainley-Piddock utterly trashed it. My problem with the book … Continue reading
CJ Events at Games Expo 2023, Birmingham NEC. June 2nd to 4th.
Plenty of spaces in my events at Games Expo UK this year so if you enjoy role-playing games or have never tried them do come along. I will also be helping out at the Pelgrane Press stall. You can learn … Continue reading
In Memoriam: Robert Moore, UFOlogist – 1967 – 2023.
Today is the funeral of my friend and ASSAP Vice Chair Robert Moore: UFOlogist, folklorist, and researcher. We are thinking of his friends and family and raising a glass to his memory. A number of ASSAP friends are travelling to … Continue reading
The Sisters Grene
I wandered in to Cheltenham today to buy some jeans as my trousers are falling apart; on the way I decided to pop in to a new shop at The Brewery, just five minutes gentle stroll from my home. I … Continue reading
Thought for the day: Poltergeists’ People.
I have resolved since changing my meds and finding myself able to concentrate better to start blogging again. It requires time, and I don’t have much, but I dutifully set an alarm and I get prompts to write. Today’s was … Continue reading
My phone sounded an alert. Musings on government warning test.
I heard the government test warning at 3pm today – (The air attack warning sounds like…) It wasn’t very loud. More of a whimper than a bang… (This is the sound) Took me back to the 80’s; a gentle nostalgic … Continue reading
Cheltenham Haunting Part 2: The ghost story continues
Yesterday I told the unfortunate story of a not-so haunted house in Cheltenham, and apparently put some of you off KFC bargain buckets for life. Despite the slightly disappointing resolution of the haunted house case (“Dear Reader; I was that … Continue reading
Review: Heavy Metal (1981) film; music, sexism and gaming culture.
I’m notorious for never watching TV or movies but I’m currently reading Designers & Dragons Shannon Appelcline’s wonderful history of the rpg industry and immersed in 1970s and 1980s culture. While doing so I chanced upon the cover of White … Continue reading →