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Cryptology # 10 August 2026 (magazine review)
Don’t be squeamish with this edition of Cryptology. It’s only spiders, and they aren’t really there to eat you.
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Cryptology #9 June 2026 (magazine review).
The Cryptologist doesn’t like the summer months, but I suspect vampires aren’t keen on them either. No leisurely meals, just a quick bite…
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings you Frankenstein’s flock (Mark Kermode film review).
Aardman go full Universal monster movie, Shaun turns mad scientist, and the scariest thing in the woods is a mob of villagers with…
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Resident Evil (2026) (Mark Kermode’s film review).
Twenty-four years and eight films in, somebody has finally worked out what a ‘Resident Evil’ movie should be: a terrified man with no…
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Cryptology #8 April 2026 (magazine review).
You can always tell when a magazine is taking off when some issues seem to be selling out. Cryptology #8 came out in…
July 2026
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Paranormal Payback edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes (book review).
One of the most popular sub-genres of fantasy deals with the paranormal, its pages littered with witches, ghosts, vampires and the occasional zombie.…
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The Queen by Nick Cutter (book review).
I read The Queen in mid-July, just as the first wasps began to appear in southern England, a good time for insect horror.…
June 2026
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DeepStar Six (1989) (blu-ray film review).
DeepStar Six originally came out in 1989, and this is the first time I’ve seen it. The film title comes from the undersea…
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Scary Movie returns (Mark Kermode’s horror film review).
There is something grimly fascinating about a horror spoof lumbering back from the grave after thirteen years, still wearing the same novelty mask,…
May 2026
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy unwraps grief, gore and enough bandages to bankrupt Boots (Mark Kermode film review).
There are certain things cinema simply cannot leave buried. Dracula rises every decade or so for another nibble, Frankenstein gets rebooted whenever Hollywood…
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Spider, Spider by L.C. Winter (book review).
‘Spider, Spider’ is the debut novel from L.C. Winter. The categorisation on the rear of the volume defines it as historical fiction and,…
March 2026
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Cryptology #7 Febr-scary 2026 (magazine review).
Given that the clocks will be moving forward this weekend, it seemed wise to expedite the release of this vampire special of ‘Cryptology’.…