2025 Reading Challenge 17 The Troop
A switch to more modern horror. I knew nothing about this. Somehow, it made its way into social media adverts, but it seemed like a bit of a successor to...
2025 Reading Challenge 16 The Masque of the Red Death
A penny in the honesty box, this was my emergency, get out of jail book. A mere eight pages, but I’ve also been dipping into other stories from Poe in this...
Play-by-Post for Gumshoe One-2-One
From October to April, I’ve been running the Gumshoe One-2-One scenario Alteregomania in a play-by-post style. Alteregomania by Michael Duxbury, Art by Chris...
2025 Reading Challenge 15 The Old Man and the Sea
Picked up one of the big dogs, Ernest Hemmingway. It is one of my “cheat” books, a short hundred-page-or-less book that allows me to get through busy weeks....
2025 Reading Challenge 14 The Drought
I picked this book because I knew I’d be running Cosmic Dark, the soon-to-be-released TTRPG from Graham Walmsley. Graham had mentioned that he’d been...
Mar 25, Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
A glance at what’s new and shiny from the ever-creative Raspy Raven folk. Active Campaigns The Dee Sanction Don’t miss out on The Dee Sanction Monad Edition...
2025 Reading Challenge 13 The Screaming Staircase
For the record, I loved the Netflix series Lockwood & Co., and it was only after getting into it that I realised it was also a series of books. A deep shame...
2025 Reading Challenge 12 Plague Ship
Thanks to Ian Cooper, the design lead for Questworlds who ran a brilliant playtest of Pioneer Space, his Rocket Punk genre pack, and introduced me to Andrew...
2025 Reading Challenge 11 Ancillary Sword
I was looking forward to coming back to the Imperial Radch universe having read Ancillary Justice when it came out and enjoying a unique and thought-...
2025 Reading Challenge 10 Down and Out in Paris and London
I’ve got a few George Orwell books on my reading list. Still, this one is new to me. I’ve often been fascinated and appalled by how society treats the lowest...
2025 Reading Challenge 09 Generation X
I picked up and first read Generation X as a disaffected youth looking for a job. I'd left university and was taking on various McJobs, whilst trying to find...
2025 Reading Challenge 08 The Wasp Factory
A writer who is still close to my heart, Iain Banks with or without the M left us on 9 June 2013. A massive gap in British literature and a small one in my...
Feb 25, Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
So more goodies coming out from The Raspy Raven members. Active Campaigns Nothing this month but congratulations to Jerod and Craig for successful campaigns...
2025 Reading Challenge 07 Berlin Game
Not exactly hitting “The Wall” but Berling Game was a struggle, I’d envisioned a slightly more modern and action-packed version of The Human Factor, but it...
2025 Reading Challenge 06 The Day of the Triffids
I’m convinced I’ve read this book before, the John Wyndham classic is ingrained in us, or is it? I found myself discovering a fairly new story of grim post-...
Jan 25, Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
Each month I’ll share the goings-on of various members of my Tabletop Roleplaying Game Discord, The Raspy Raven. The majority of these folks are solo RPG...
The Mean Arena
A play report for a very special Forged in the Dark game, based on the 2000AD strip, The Mean Arena, this time the game is in Watford, Hertfordshire, where...
2025 Reading Challenge 05 The Human Chord
Not The Human Torch, as my wife called it, this is a blast from the past, 1910. Written by Algernon Blackwood, he of The Wendigo. The Human Chord by Algernon...
2025 Reading Challenge 04 The Human Factor
The Human Factor is a cold war spy novel by Graham Greene. It concerns a leak in M16’s Africa section. Things are quickly complicated by love, loyalty and an...
2025 Reading Challenge 03 The King in Yellow
Robert W Chambers described The King in Yellow as “…a work of cosmic horror fantasy that explores the sinister nature of human curiosity.” The King in Yellow...
