The Dust Lounge

Thoughts and meanderings. Chatterings about writing, reading and shiny things that distract me. May contain cats and cheese.

Horror in boats and ice – a TV series, a novel, and a short story

On horror set on the sea and stuck in the ice. A few suggestions to give you chills.

Katsu’s historical horror brings a supernatural tale to the real life tragedies of large boats in larger seas

Looking for your green-fingered advice on how to help my poorly looking Calathea Musaica

Reflecting on a week of semi-hiatus from social media, and asking for your fiction website suggestions and recommendations.

On finding the book to break the reading funk.

Jeff Noon brings more reliable weirdness in the latest instalment of the Nyquist mysteries

A quietly uneasy, beautiful read, shot through with sun and shades of dark.

In which I’m stabbed in the arm and slightly in awe of the Covid-19 vaccination programme