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Stephen Volk is the writer of "Ghostwatch", the BBC 'hoax', that had gone 'live' on 31st October 1992, and has assumed a 'cult' status among lovers of horror. But there are other, unexplored, and darker corners in the mind of this author, which he displays in the stories in this collection. They are well-crafted stories, told with the practiced ease of someone who knows how to tell a tale in limited words.The contents of this book are: -(*) Introduction by Tim Lebbon1) 31/10: revisiting 'Ghostwa...
Stephen Volk, for whatever reason, goes relatively unrecognised as the true modern Master of Horror that he is. Oh sure, his TV and film work like 'Ghost Watch', 'Afterlife' and (to a lesser extent) 'The Awakening' may have garnered him some attention, but his books and short stories seem to have fairly effectively slipped under most people's radar.This is a shame since, as 'Dark Corners' proves, Volk is a tremendous prose writer who knows the horror genre inside and out.Inside this book you wil...
Having just rewatched GHOSTWATCH for the umpteenth time, I figured I should read "31/10" Volk's own sequel short story to the TV phenomena he wrote. It's available for free on his website (http://www.stephenvolk.net/31-10.pdf) and was later published here, so here is where I'll place the review.And "31/10" is good. Not amazing, it relies a bit *too* much on presuming the reader has direct and recent knowledge of the show, as it describes to us a 10th anniversary television special revisiting GHO...
