Inkbeetle: writing & the weird
Expect thoughts on culture, the weird, fantasy fiction, comics, literary criticism, musings on storytelling & bits and pieces related to my fantasy debut: Titan Books April 2026
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On mystique and why once it’s gone you can never get it back
Sorry … this post has nothing to do with that Mystique, but she’s cool, so here she is.
This is my first (slightly grumpy) post of the new year and so, because I’ve been thinking about this subject matter a fair bit (and also because I am...
#13 Re-run of the Repressed
[Contains mild spoilers for Alien: Earth, Halloween, Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine and A Nightmare on Elm Street]
The idea for this issue has been gestating in my chest ever since I watched the last couple of episodes of FX’s Alien:...
#12 Fac 40: Temptation by Joy Division, released 09.09.82
Peter Saville’s numinous cover for Joy Division’s Temptation
Today marks the forty-third anniversary of Joy Division’s genre defying brutalist ur-techno torch song.
Released two years after the departure of drummer Stephen Morris and the...
#11 Alien³: of bald caps and bad dreams
[Warning: contains a brief mention of sexual violence and major spoilers for Alien³ ]
Welcome to an occasional series of posts where I kick around sequels that are widely derided and make a case for their re-evaluation.
- Bangs gavel -...
#10 High on Hauntology
Hauntology is a type of cultural archaeology these days, given that its moment has almost certainly passed. It’s, perhaps unfairly characterised as the whining sound emitted by Gen-Xers as our brief moment of cultural hegemony (comic book m...
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