Upon Death’s Purple Altar: The 2009 Manky Toy Show – Live!
(Curtain draws back to reveal…not a stage, but bare concrete walls atop a bare concrete floor. On this floor are two bins. In...
Weirdness Category
Upside-Down and Downside-Up, Mirror Magic Means Much Mixing
While Gregory Gráinneog and his wretched companions eke out a miserable existence above ground (on a scorched and ruined earth), below...
The Nightmarish Post-Apocalyptic Hell-world of Gregory Gráinneog
Though casual viewers of Bosco may retain fond memories of a show jam-packed with incident, energy and excitement (singing, dancing,...
Hailing Jane
In a memorable exchange with his Jesus-lovin' father-in-law, Larry David (the "fictional" Curb Your Enthusiasm version) speculated...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 3 – Caroline Simons (Libertas)
Our third slice of “Debafflement� sees the series move from local level to European, and from Shannonside to the banks of the Liffey....
All will love me and despair!
As I stood in line (vino bottle in hand) at our local booze merchants on Thursday evening, my wandering eyes alighted on the following...
Why does Santa Sound Like George from Glenroe?
Yesterday afternoon the Christmas market in Clarenbridge (normally a haven of gentle family fun) found itself terrorised by the appearance...
Naughty Boys, Lucky Bags, and Karl’s Lovely Wig
And so the brother (he who used to love jam sandwiches more than life itself) is married. Saturday's celebratory fancy dress part-tay...
The Brutal Sound of Two Euro Horror
This Halloween sees me (somewhat reluctantly) abandoning my usual routine. There'll be no carving of turnips,1 no careful choosing...
The Salty Taste of Irish Horror – Live!
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Though this thing we call the internet generally caters effectively to the colourful needs of the planet's fetishists, paranoids,...
Do You See What is Happening?
By way of buildup to next Monday's (miss it and you'll die crying) John Polidori Vampyre-fest, I hereby present a post on a strangely...
Makes People Disappear
There's something vaguely touching and poignant about mysteries that have (due to the whims of fashion) passed out of mainstream popular...
Nothing’s as Confusing as Milk
On my way into work this morning, as I tried to shake off the dull lethargy that frequently grips me in the hours before noon, I saw...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 7: The Man Who Went Too Far
"Oh that Aleister Crowley", my (fictional) grand-aunt usedn't to say, "He was an awful man entirely!"
"Wicked, he was", she usedn't...
Dreadful Thoughts: Going too Far
Session number seven of our spooky story club sees us bid adieu to devilish monkeys and whisper a panicked hello to the awesome spirits...
