Mike O'Driscoll
Blood, Guns and Sex.
I've added a story to the fiction page. Originally written back in 1997, this is one I sold to Thomas Roche for an anthology series...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Moriah
This weekend, I finished reading Daniel Mills' haunting piece of American Gothic, Moriah, from Zagava Press. You can read my thoughts on...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5
- 5 min
Not making sense of death.
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo da Vinci. Spoiler alert. This post is about...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Apr 9
- 8 min
Station Eleven & The Underground Railroad.
Mackenzie Davis as Kirsten Over the last couple of months I’ve watched two highly lauded series, both based on award winning novels, one...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Feb 4
- 4 min
Des Lewis and his Gestalt Real Time Reviews
Featuring a review of my novella Pervert Blood. Over at at the Gestalt Real Time Reviews, Des Lewis has reviewed the latest issue of...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jan 29
- 1 min
We Will Not Be Here Yesterday
I've added the above story to the fiction pages of the site. I've long been a fan of art in general and modern art in particular. I'm...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jan 17
- 4 min
The Green Knight & more ...
My apologies, but this piece contains spoilers. Got back Friday from a visit to San Francisco to see family living out there. One of the...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
Black Static #80/81
The winter double issue of the new digest sized Black Static is out now, and it contains my new novella, Pervert Blood. Before I speak...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
New Maps of Dreams
"Rarely has the appearance of the fantastic in a story been so brutally curtailed. It’s a fitting end to this exploration of the...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie
A few weeks back I read this evocative and profound meditation on memory and forgetting, on the nature of stories, especially those we...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Ramsey Campbell's Just Behind You
My review of Campbell's latest collection of short stories from PS Publishing is live now at Horrified Magazine. "There is little solace...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Pervert Blood -Title Spread
Here's the title spread for my novella, Pervert Blood, due in the not too distant future in the next double issue of Black Static# 80/81....
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Waterboys - Live
Went to see the Waterboys in Cardiff last night at St David's Hall. I was a huge fan of Mike Scott's band in the 80s and early 90s, from...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
Midnight Mass
Finished watching Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass last night and was just blown away. Over the course of 7 hour long episodes, Flanagan and...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Thinking about Dick.
Not that dick, this Dick - the Philip K. one who said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” Fuel...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 3, 2021
- 1 min
Recent reading - Among the Lilies
I read Daniel Mills's collection of weird fiction, Among the Lilies back in the summer and felt immediately that these were powerful and...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 1, 2021
- 6 min
Underworld USA
Recently reread James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy comprising the novels American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001) and...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Exorcising the ghosts in the machine
Having spent a couple of months when not writing, trying to put this website together, I thought I'd finally cracked it two weeks ago and...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Sep 22, 2021
- 6 min
Revisiting 9/11
Following the recent 20th anniversary of 9/11, I thought it would be apposite to revisit a piece I wrote in the aftermath of having...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
Ginger Nuts of Horror
I've recently started contributing book reviews to the Ginger Nuts of Horror site, edited by Jim McCleod. My first two reviews - of...
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