A lovely man with a brain the size of several planets, the man and his brilliant work shall be sorely missed. By one more than all – his wonderful wife Adele, my dear friend and The First Lady of Horror, to whom i send all my love and hopes and booze x

At time of writing, Michael Gove is still breathing. No justice in this world.

Accomplished Screenwriter, Director, and Author Frazer Lee Discusses His Newest Novella, Writing, and His Pesky Eating Habits.

So raise a glass with me one more time and turn the volume up to 13.

Track #6 – Our final track for today, and as we roll end credits I’d like to thank you for reading/listening/putting up with my multiple posts.

And thanks for all the tweets, messages, likes & comments, I appreciate it.

Bottoms up! Raise that glass, and raise it all to Hell!

whiskey gin and brandy
with a glass I’m pretty handy
I’m tryin’ to walk a straight line
on sour mash and cheap wine
so join me for a drink boys
we gonna make a big noise
so don’t worry ’bout tomorrow
take it today
forget about the cheque we’ll get hell to pay
have a drink on me

(Angus Young / Malcolm Young / Brian Johnson)

The Lucifer Glass is published today. To read an excerpt, click here.

(*disclaimer – all music is copyright original owners)

In celebration, I’m posting a series of tunes that make up the ‘unofficial soundtrack’ for the novella.

So raise a glass with me and turn the volume up to 13.

Cheers!

Track #5 – Sometimes a piece of music arrives that somehow sums up the whole book you’ve just written. The mood, the lyrics, the ambience, everything. This is that piece of music, the unofficial theme song for ‘The Lucifer Glass’, if you will.

“Take a look in the mirror Daniel Gates, and keep your hands on the wheel.”

The Lucifer Glass is published today. To read an excerpt, click here.

In celebration, I’m posting a series of tunes that make up the ‘unofficial soundtrack’ for the novella.

So raise a glass with me and turn the volume up to 13.

Cheers!

Track #4 – And Daniel Gates descends into…a ‘well of despair’.
“Hello Darkness my old friend”.

The Lucifer Glass is published today. To read an excerpt, click here.

In celebration, I’m posting a series of tunes that make up the ‘unofficial soundtrack’ for the novella.

So raise a glass with me and turn the volume up to 13.

Cheers!

Track #3 – A song for whispering woodland houses. “There are many rooms, in my Father’s house.” And in one such room, Daniel Gates finds a well…

The Lucifer Glass is published today. To read an excerpt, click here.

In celebration, I’m posting a series of tunes that make up the ‘unofficial soundtrack’ for the novella.

So raise a glass with me and turn the volume up to 13.

Cheers!

Track #2 – Daniel Gates meets a flame haired demoness. Her eyes burn with the creepiest green light and he finds himself drawn to her shadow domain…

The Lucifer Glass is published today. To read an excerpt, click here.

In celebration, I’m posting a series of tunes that make up the ‘unofficial soundtrack’ for the novella.

So raise a glass with me and turn the volume up to 13.

Cheers!

Track #1 – We’ve all been there. Down at the crossroads, tempting fate. Daniel Gates certainly has. And perhaps will again.

The Lucifer Glass is published today. To read an excerpt, click here.

With the release of The Lucifer Glass, my new Samhain Horror novella, just a week away I thought it timely to have a fun contest – and it’s a great time to be drinking horror cocktails. Yesterday we celebrated the Peter Cushing Centenary and today marks Sir Christopher Lee’s 91st birthday, and the anniversary of Vincent Price’s birth. A horror icon triple whammy worthy of a toast…or three!

I once invented a cocktail called ‘The Frazizor’, but it was banned shortly afterwards as authorities deemed it “a risk to public health…and decency”. (Think ‘Pan Galactic Gargleblaster’ nailed to Old Scratch’s cloven hoof then rammed into your brainstem and you’re halfway there.)

But i know you can do better.

So get posting (or Commenting in the box below) your luciferous liquor libations, and make sure they’re 66.6% proof…

Cheers!

In centenary celebration, The Horror Channel (UK) is screening a feast of Cushing treats for fans of his many iconic genre roles. Brutal As Hell, as usual, offers excellent, insightful (and sometimes irreverent) coverage of the great man, his movies and friendship with that other Hammer Horror legend, Christopher Lee (who is set to release a metal album on his 91st birthday - rock on Sir Christopher!)

And on a personal note, in a truly horrible week here in the UK (where some flag-waving nutters have been bandying around very misguided notions of “Englishness”) it is a tonic to remember Peter Cushing as that most consummate of English gents. In his autobiography, ‘Tall, Dark and Gruesome’, Christopher Lee described his friend as, “the gentlest, and most generous of men.”

I’m going to celebrate this evening with a screening of ‘The Uncanny’, one of my fave guilty pleasures. Cushing + cats = bliss.

And here is the great man in many of those aforementioned iconic roles thanks to this lovely tribute:

Happy 100th Birthday Peter Cushing – gone but never, ever forgotten.

“cats aren’t always cute and cuddly!”