A smorgasboard of horrible delights for you today, fair readers.

Thomas Emson and Wayne Simmons, horror writers extraordinaire (who both have books in the Horror top ten this week, which is rather super) are running a competition from Wayne's blog - details here.

Wayne is going to be interviewed by Marc and Owen on NI Community Radio Station, Shine 102.4 FM on Thursday 26th August 2010 from 8 - 11pm. Anyone can tune into the show on their live internet stream here.

And then Wayne is going to be selling and signing books this Saturday (28th August) at this year's Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival, taking place at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast. More details here.

Lordy lord. Don't say we don't treat you.

click2zoom

Supposedly a picture is worth approx 1k words. That may or may not be an accurate assessment, but I can vouch for the fact that the right picture can trigger a whole cartload of ideas - a whole screenplay of them in fact. When I look at these I can imagine them as stills from a cool sci-fi film - one I'd like to see, if it existed. Take a look. It's modern colour photographs of iconic locations with photoshopped portals opened into dramatic, B&W moments from the past. [source]

There's a smashing interview with Wayne Simmons, author, of course, of Flu, in August's SciFiNow mag. Out on Friday!