The Verbal Diarist

Sponsorship deals can be tricky, but it turns out one thing they cannot be is murder… After Knives Out came out in 2019, Rhian Johnson revealed in a 2020 Variety interview that Apple refuses to license its products for use by villainous characters.

Jen The Nipper was the terror of Nightchapel and a born killer.

Like many authors who have recently died, John Le Carré has entered a fallow, but by no means unproductive, period.

If you’ve seen Goldfinger, you may remember that the film opens, after the credit sequence, with Felix Leiter and Goldfinger in Miami talking to Sean Connery in a studio-pretending-to-be-Miami.

Below are all the reviews I wrote for Northwestend.com in 2025. (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 are also available) They include The Merchant Of Venice, Calamity Jane, The Watsons, Quadrophenia, Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism, Saint Dymphna’s Ward,…

Edith Nesbit is probably better known today as the children’s author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It, but she wrote many other things too, including several dozen well-received horror novels and stories (which you can find out more about…

I’m sure that many who saw the title are ready to call this able-ist, elitist or gate-keepish, so let me make one thing clear.

Below are all the reviews I wrote for Northwestend.com in 2024. (2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 are also available) These include Jekyll & Hyde, David Suchet: Poirot And More, L’Amour Du Risque, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Don’t.

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and the man responsible for the original 14 Bond books (12 novels and 9 short stories), isn’t the man who wrote the most Bond books: continuation author John Gardner has him beat, with 16 books (14 novels and 2 film…

Possibly the most important night in horror literature came during the rainy summer of 1816.