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Here are 50+ reviews mostly first published in the pages of the UK's finest horror magazine Black Static, beginning in 2004 and ending in 2016, with two new essays from 2018. Stephen Volk is perhaps best known as a screenwriter (eg, Ghostwatch); he is also a very fine writer of short stories (check out his collections -- you will be well rewarded for doing so). His quality as a writer shines through on these pages as he dissects and analyses the (behind the scenes) business of making TV and movi...
This is not a “how to” book on screenwriting, nor is it a diary: Volk was given two pages each issue by Andy Cox, the editor of The Third Alternative/Black Static, to essentially write what took his fancy at that moment in time, and as such it was the very first thing I read when each issue of the magazine dropped though my letterbox.When Volk decided to hang up his coffinmaker’s overalls, I was saddened but he left on a high – and this compendium contains two postscripts which weren’t published...
This is not a diary, nor is it a selection of reviews but rather something much better. Stephen Volk wrote a series of articles for Black Static magazine and this book presents them in all their glory. Volk is an excellent writer and is incredibly knowledgeable about the film and TV industries, as you'd expect from someone who's career has been as long as his. These essays sum up the highs and lows of being a screenwriter, and what is most striking is the issues discussed are still relevant, eve...