On television streaming I really enjoyed the new horror films The Influence and Wounds, each adapted from excellent stories from writers I'm lucky to count as friends. And I also recommend watching Terrified; Killing Ground; The Dyatlov Pass Incident; May the Devil Take You; The Devil's Doorway; The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh; Mon Mon Mon Monsters; The Witch in the Window.
In music, my favourite new albums of 2019 were: Heretics by Rotting Christ; In Cauda Venenum by Opeth; Never is Now by Skold; The Repentless Killology by Slayer.
In horror and the weird fiction, in no particular order, I really enjoyed: The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell (published April 2020); Hollow Shores by Gary Budden; Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud; The Delicate Shore Beckons Us by Jonathan Wood; Children of the Crimson Sun by Karim Ghahwagi; The Bellboy by Rebecca Lloyd; The Ballet of Doctor Caligari and Madder Mysteries by Reggie Oliver; The Book of Bones by John Connolly; The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky (published 2020); Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver; Mothlight by Adam Scovall.
Other fiction I recommend: Dodgers by Bill Beverly; Stoneburner & Time Done Been Won't Be No More both by William Gay; Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan; The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters.
In Non-fiction, my favourite reads were: The Weird & the Eerie by Mark Fisher (Lit' Criticism); Sleeping with Lights On by Darryl Jones (Lit' Criticism); Folk Horror by Adam Scovall (Lit' Criticism & more); Millennium by Tom Holland (History); Underland by Robert Macfarlane (Nature Writing); Wilding by Isabella Tree (Nature Writing); The Moor by William Atkins (Nature Writing); The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald (Memoir); Waterlog by Roger Deakin (Memoir) I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (True Crime); All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook (True Crime).
I'm finally done and this has been a long letter . . . so I am going to let you go. So, finally, let me wish you all the best for 2020 and thank you again for your patronage, time and support. You rock.
And until next time, keep those horns raised ...
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