Mike O'DriscollApr 98 minStation 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...
Mike O'DriscollFeb 44 minDes Lewis and his Gestalt Real Time ReviewsFeaturing a review of my novella Pervert Blood. Over at at the Gestalt Real Time Reviews, Des Lewis has reviewed the latest issue of...
Mike O'DriscollJan 291 minWe Will Not Be Here YesterdayI'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...
Mike O'DriscollJan 174 minThe 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...
Mike O'DriscollDec 28, 20213 minBlack Static #80/81The winter double issue of the new digest sized Black Static is out now, and it contains my new novella, Pervert Blood. Before I speak...
Mike O'DriscollDec 10, 20211 minNew 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...
Mike O'DriscollDec 6, 20211 minThe Shipbuilder of BellfairieA few weeks back I read this evocative and profound meditation on memory and forgetting, on the nature of stories, especially those we...
Mike O'DriscollNov 20, 20211 minRamsey Campbell's Just Behind YouMy review of Campbell's latest collection of short stories from PS Publishing is live now at Horrified Magazine. "There is little solace...
Mike O'DriscollOct 23, 20211 minPervert Blood -Title SpreadHere'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....
Mike O'DriscollOct 18, 20212 minThe Waterboys - LiveWent 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...
Mike O'DriscollOct 9, 20213 minMidnight MassFinished watching Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass last night and was just blown away. Over the course of 7 hour long episodes, Flanagan and...
Mike O'DriscollOct 4, 20212 minThinking 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...
Mike O'DriscollOct 3, 20211 minRecent reading - Among the LiliesI read Daniel Mills's collection of weird fiction, Among the Lilies back in the summer and felt immediately that these were powerful and...
Mike O'DriscollOct 1, 20216 minUnderworld USARecently reread James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy comprising the novels American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001) and...
Mike O'DriscollSep 30, 20212 minExorcising the ghosts in the machineHaving 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...
Mike O'DriscollSep 22, 20216 minRevisiting 9/11Following the recent 20th anniversary of 9/11, I thought it would be apposite to revisit a piece I wrote in the aftermath of having...
Mike O'DriscollSep 7, 20211 minGinger Nuts of HorrorI've recently started contributing book reviews to the Ginger Nuts of Horror site, edited by Jim McCleod. My first two reviews - of...
Mike O'DriscollSep 3, 20211 minPervert BloodMike's new novella, Pervert Blood, will appear in the next double issue of Black Static #80/81, due later this autumn. Pervert Blood was...
Mike O'DriscollAug 2, 20211 minWelcome to my website.A big hello to you if you happen to have stumbled across my new website. On here I'll be posting news about my fiction, stories, book and...