Collected features from various books and publications…

Screen Time: Penda’s Fen
“They won’t spot it, they have no demon for counterpoint…”

Roy Ananda and The Apparitionist
” I feel I must contact Floating Goose Studios as a matter of the utmost urgency…”

Screen Time: Sky
“The Juganet is a circle, the circle is a machine, the machine is a crossover point, the point is a paramagnetic intersection. That is where I must be!”

“The Eternal Hereafter Via Thornaby Station” by Bob Fischer
“It takes all the dead people to the eternal hereafter. Although they might have to change at Thornaby Station first…”

“Higgins” by Bob Fischer
“‘You must know Higgins,’ said Riz. ‘He’s been in loads of bands…'”

A Very Provincial Portal
“We are in a nexus point, a gateway between different realities, and we have chanced upon fellow travellers along the infinite pathways between dimensions…”

Mandy Morton and Spriguns of Tolgus
“Deep inside, I’m still the cantankerous old biddy that I was back then…”

GCSE English, 1987: “What A Stupid Mistake”
“This was no more than a living corpse, an insult to nature as it stumbled, frail and bleeding to the ground and died…”

Jonny Trunk, Alan Gubby and Children of the Stones
“I was ten when I first saw it in 1977, but my little sister was only five. And if she’d been sat in our front room watching that, she’d have been genuinely disturbed…”

Jeff Cummins, Target Books and The Invisible Artist
“This guy came over while my wife and I were having lunch in Chester. I tried to convince him that I wasn’t actually Francis Rossi, but he insisted I sign a piece of paper…”

Doctor Who Exhibitions: Middlesbrough Town Hall
“The Daleks and Doctor Who have invaded Middlesbrough Town Hall. And they’ll be occupying the building, with ghosts and monsters to help them, for the next six months…”

Remembering Jack Charlton
“Jack Charlton’s Boro is my Dad’s Boro, the Boro of frozen breath on the Holgate terrace, of crackly updates from tinny transistor radios, of Stuart Boam playing darts in the Endeavour…”

Urban Wyrd: Devil’s Bridge – The Satanic Rites of Acklam
“All the kids in Acklam knew about the hoofprint on the underside of Devil’s Bridge…”

Sweet Fruits: Shapwick by Jon Brooks
“A passing car rumbles in the distance, then seems to falter – somehow gently rewinding backwards through time…”

Twisted Roots: The Seasons by Ronald Duncan and David Cain
“This was the school of cold parquet floors on icy February mrnings, mercilessly numbing tiny buttocks into frozen submission during morning prayers…”

Vworp Vworp: The Fandom Menace
“I was tagging behind in a world of my own. Probably Gallifrey or Mondas, but with an outside chance of being Zeta Minor…”