When The Midnight Games came out, John O’Neill asked me to write about the book for his online magazine Black Gate. Then he was kind enough to ask me to write more Black Gate posts – essentially on any subject I wanted, provided it was related to the magazine’s central concerns with imaginative literature.
It took me a couple of years to do this – among other things, I had to write a 300-page dissertation for my PhD – but early this year I finally took up the Black Gate initiative. Having written about the script of the first Quatermass TVserial, I plan to write about the other two 1950s Quatermass scripts as well, and I have a few other ideas on the go.
My latest post just went up, and if you’re interested, here are links to the others:
Only the Monsters Can Save Us: Claude Debussy Meets Godzilla August 2018
Standing on Zanzibar July 2018
The Quatermass Experiment: The Shakespeare of Sci-Fi Television April 2018
Deep Pockets, Abyssal Regions: Kong ‒ Skull Island (2017) February 2018
The Midnight Games and Why I Wrote Them February 2016
