I’m a writer living in the Yorkshire Dales with an academic and a cat. I used to mostly work for Empire and now I work for Channel 4. I’m also still a regular contributor to Rue Morgue and my work has been published by Fangoria, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Alamo Drafthouse and widely elsewhere. And there’ve been a few books (see bibliography below). I’m known where I’m known at all for writing about film, but I’ve occasionally dipped into video games (for Games™ and Wireframe) and history (for All About History). I don’t do much of this sort of work anymore but I set up this blog to share links to some of my online articles and preserve some interviews. Sometimes I even update it. There are scans of some of my magazine greatest hits in the portfolio section.

Bibliography

The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies (Ed. Kim Newman & James Marriott, Welbeck Publishing, ISBN 9781035422043, published October 2, 2025 – 10,000 words of new material for updated 2025 edition.)

Bohemian Rhapsody: The Inside Story (Owen Williams, Welbeck Publishing, ISBN 9781787391888, published October 18, 2018)

The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies (Ed. Kim Newman & James Marriott, Carlton Books, ISBN 9781787391390, published October 4, 2018 – new material for updated 2018 edition; all entries on films released post-2010)

Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual (Owen Williams, Harper Design, ISBN 9780062695369, published October 5, 2017)

Spectacular Optical #3: Yuletide Terror (Ed. Kier-La Janisse, Spectacular Optical, ISBN 9780992146337, published December 2017 – chapter on The League of Gentlemen’s Christmas Special)

French Cinema in Close-up (Ed. Michael Abecassis & Marcelline Block, Phaeton Publishing, ISBN 9781908420114, published April 30, 2015 – entries on Jean Reno and Christophe Lambert)

Spectacular Optical #1: Kid Power! (Ed. Kier-La Janisse, Spectacular Optical, ISBN 9780992146306, published September, 2014 – chapter on Chocky)

The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See: Unseen Masterpieces by the World’s Greatest Directors (Ed. Simon Braund, Aurum Press, ISBN 9781781310755, published November 1, 2013 – chapters on Halo and Star Trek: Planet of the Titans)