What does one do on a miserable Sunday such as this (a Sunday dragged straight from the depths of Satan's arse)? Watch DVDs? Check. Waste an hour or two playing the Wii? Check. Idly flick through the thousands of comic …

Though our last meeting provided much to feast on and chew over - alien abduction; the joys/frustrations of narrative ambiguity; the merits of sharing one's tent with a burly Swede (etc) - it …

Welcome, once more, dear friends to the second meeting of our most dreadful story club. Though tomorrow may be (for some) a good Friday, this evening we hope to enjoy a most wicked Thursday.

After the …

August 4, 1997: The computer defence-system "Skynet" is brought online for the first time.

August 29, 1997: Skynet, fearing threats to its intelligence, launches nuclear weapons at Russia …

Well, I hope you're all suitably recovered from the frights, delights and alcohol (or caffeine) poisoning of Monday evening. The pace was fast and furious - the vibe (I thought) fun and friendly. In …

I say:

Come, dear friends. Come and pull …

The Dreadful Thoughts project begins (like a cauldron of hot blood) to bubble and fizz most satisfactorily - with my comrade Sinéad rallying the troops over at The Sigla Blog.

For the first of …

Right. Time to spit on the hands (my own and those of others), roll up the sleeves and slap the dozy Dreadful Thoughts project back into something approaching life. Necromancy, Ho!

After speaking to (hat-trick …