#stephen volk

[addictivecontradiction]

Ghostwatch, 1992

[shugmonkey]

Gothic (1986)

[80smovies]

[everythingsecondhand]

Gothic, by Stephen Volk (Grafton Books, 1987).

From a charity shop in Nottingham.

[90smovies]

[weirdletter]

Coffinmakers Blues: Collected Writings on Terror, by Stephen Volk, introduction by David Pirie, Electric Dreamhouse/PS Publishing, 2019. Cover art by Neil Snowden and David Chatton Barker, info: pspublishing.co.uk.

For twelve years, between 2004 and 2016, award-winning author and screenwriter Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch, Afterlife, The Awakening) wrote a bi-monthly column for Black Static magazine, documenting the life and thought processes of a working writer: the ups, the downs, the good, the bad, and the ugly of a life in the word mines. The passion, the doubts, the wins, the losses, the murky thoughts that drive and obsess him. Collected here for the first time, they represent a fascinating overview of a period in which Film, TV and Publishing have all undergone huge changes. Intimate, honest and inspiring, Coffinmaker’s Blues is essential reading for anyone with an interest in how great movies, books and TV are made. A fascinating insight into what goes on behind the scenes, the joys and heartbreak of a life devoted to the written word. Experience life in the trenches with one of the genre’s most respected practitioners, telling it straight about the trials and tribulations of the craft and the business... Beware of shrapnel. Safety not guaranteed.

[romdocitizen]

Gothic (1986) dir. Ken Russell, cinematography by Mike Southon

“It didn’t ask to be born.”

[folkhorrorrevival]

Midwinter of the Spirit (2015)