Author Archives: john-houlihan

The wall and Skype me baby!

It can be tough being a writer, not real world tough, like hacking coal out of a mine, labouring on a building site or spending a twelve hour shift cleaning hospital wards, but it certainly has its own unique challenges. Some days you hit the writer’s equivalent of the wall and sit staring blankly, drooling, […]

March 7, 2014 – 1:25 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on The wall and Skype me baby!

A!C – Dark Tales from the Secret War

Well my drive to post more regularly didn’t last long, but the path to hell is paved with good intentions and all that. Still, two posts in under 20 days is upping the old batting average considerably, so you can’t complain – this is practically prolific by mine own (admittedly) shoddy standards. But I haven’t […]

February 27, 2014 – 11:34 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged | Comments Off on A!C – Dark Tales from the Secret War

Happy New Fear

2014 already! Merde, how did that creep up on us so quickly? Well a damn happy New Year to you in any case, even though I still feel like I’m trying this one on for size – and I’m not entirely sure about the fit.   Looking back, I find it’s early November since I […]

January 3, 2014 – 1:44 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Happy New Fear

#29 Be an Angel

“Be an angel and make me a coffee, two sugars,” he says. ‘My pleasure’ I reply, boiling inside but rise to go and make it. The dose is tiny, but over time it accumulates; always fatally and mostly undetectably. “Here you go, just how you like it,” I say, placing the cup on his desk […]

November 10, 2013 – 1:46 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Very Short Stories | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on #29 Be an Angel

League of Cthulhu #2 – David J Rodger part two

So it’s been a little while since part one of this interview with the admirable David J Rodger first aired (over a month if the ol’ chronometer remains anchored in the right dimension) and I can only apologise for that. Dayjob has been extremely busy (who’d have guessed with two console launches coming up) and […]

November 8, 2013 – 12:04 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged | Comments Off on League of Cthulhu #2 – David J Rodger part two

League of Cthulhu #1 – In conversation with David J Rodger

The appeal of Call of Cthulhu and the worlds of Lovecraft has never been stronger. Everywhere you seem to look nowadays there’s Cthulhu masks, Cthulhu cakes and even Cthulhu Cosplay (loving those tentacles ladies). You name it, someone’s invoking it and slapping Cthulhu’s name all over it. Cthulhu-based fiction continues to run rampant and grows […]

October 4, 2013 – 2:13 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Comments Off on League of Cthulhu #1 – In conversation with David J Rodger

Slack…

Slack …slack …slacker than a Frenchman’s jaw as he  contemplates a shelf of personal hygiene products ( only blague-ing mon petite, I’m actually a raging Francophile under these carefully cultivated layers of humorous prejudice). So, it’s been a little while since there’s been any updates and really I haven’t got too many excuses, except I’ve been […]

September 12, 2013 – 3:42 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Slack…

The laziness of the long distance writer

‘Things have been quiet …too quiet dammit.’ It’s been little while since I updated this thing and to be honest, I really should have paid a bit more attention. I was hoping to do daily updates, but in retrospect perhaps that was always a bit ambitious. But there you go: to be fair, circumstances have […]

August 6, 2013 – 10:16 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged | Comments Off on The laziness of the long distance writer

Ashes fever

It’s no secret to my nearest and dearest that I live a sordid life of secret addiction and with the first Ashes Test now complete, my cricketing dependence is only likely to grow greater in the weeks to come. But what a belter to kick things off: Agar’s 98, Bell’s magnificent century, a record breaking […]

July 15, 2013 – 12:22 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Comments Off on Ashes fever

Tomb of the Aeons update

So, some actual news on current works in progress now. I completed the first draft of Tomb of the Aeons, the third Seraph adventure last night and decided I’ll post a little teaser here. So here’s the opening paragraph. “The great dunes at first seem as unchanging as the aeons, yet one soon learns they […]

July 4, 2013 – 12:25 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Tomb of the Aeons update