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Indeed. There is also Peter Van Greenaway's novel Judas, in which his Gospel is found and he tells his own version of the betrayal of Jesus.

That's an amazing story, one of the best I've ever read.

I read The Hercules Text years ago, and I rather enjoyed it, though the premise (signal from space turns out to be instructions to build a machine) had been done to death. It wasn't anywhere near as good as Hoyle's A for Andromeda, but it was a decent book.

I read A Book of Horrors quite recently. There are some very good stories in it. The weakest was King's, as was to be expected. For a good starting point in modern horror I would usually recommend Peter Straub's 1974 novel If You Could See Me Now; it contains all the elements we now associate...

You might want to try some of David Case's short stories, some of which appeared in the Pan Book of Horror Stories during the 70s. He seems to have had a peculiar obsession with werwolves.

I read Mr Paget's story today - it's a stunner, easily the best story that I've come across this year. Hopefully it will grow legs and be heavily anthologised because it deserves it.

Battleship. Words fail me.

RIP, I remember reading her disturbing novel, Devil by the Sea - left a lasting impression.

Interesting, thanks. I wouldn't say exhaustion - I'd say complacency, nepotism and self-regard.

Very sorry to hear this - I've read most of Christopher's books, and he maintained a very high standard over a great number of years. His influence is untold and if we lived in a fairer, less fickle, world he would be spoken of in the same way as John Wyndham and, perhaps, JG Ballard. His...

Sometimes a little squirt of lighter fliud and, if you leave it for a moment, the gum dissolves. One thing that restores many old paperbacks to lustre is Clear Cover Gel - I've resurrected many a paperback or dust-jacket with that.

When I was a kid I didn't buy 2000AD, I much preferred its rival, Battle, which was a war comic with great strips, including the immortal Charley's War. Around 1983/84 Battle ran a science fiction serial titled Invasion 1984, one of the most terrifying alien invasion stories I've ever read. Few...

Just finished Eric Brown's The Kings of Eternity, very enjoyable and well-written in the manner of an old scientific romance - a group of pre-war gentlemen happen across a fugitive alien and are granted immortality at a price... Really highly recommended.

I think The Gold at Starbow's End is one of my favourite stories, by anyone. It has all the faults you mention, but there's just something about it that I think is awe-inspiring.

Philip Challinor has written some interesting interpretations of Aickman's work; you could probably find them via google, if you haven't already. I don't have any of the stories you've been discussing above so I can't add any insights. Not that I ever do, lol. I did pick up a lovely Gollancz...

I hope he recovers fully soon. I've enjoyed quite a few of his videos at youtube where he does some readings from his work, and very good it is too.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - many of these books were originally issued in the UK, by Gollancz, in 1st edition form, as yellowbacks. It was their trademark and was rather successful, lasting them 50 years of publishing. When they moved away from the yellowbacks in the late 1980s...

Some excellent finds: Behold This Dreamer by Walter De La Mare Ghosts & Marvels - Ed by V.H Collins Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce A Mad Woman's Plot by Pierre Souvestre & Marcel Allain Scream and Scream Again by Peter Saxon The Exploits of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson

Ah. There's a story about a hole which opens up somewhere in the US and people start piling out of it, millions of them. It turns out the future has decided to solve its over-population problem by sending their excess back to the past. Was it a Simak story - I can't remember.

Anyone been through the brief New Writings in Horror and the Supernatural series? I think there were only two (the companion series New Writings in sf ran for many, many years), but there is some very good material in there, including an interesting early story by Robert Holdstock, The Darkness.