Behind Dereham Road, Norwich

A couple of streets behind Norwich's Dereham Road (behind the former KFC), June 2016.

Be Kind, Rewind: Blockbuster Video, Dereham Road, Norwich

The long-vacant Blockbuster video store on Dereham Road, Norwich. Video rental stores were pivotal to my soul, growing up: the small, local, independent places were clearly the ones to frequent (in my hometown in Yorkshire, it was a place called KC Video: the horror section felt fabulously shifty, as any self-respecting horror section of a video shop should), but I've got good memories of working my way through the shelves of Blockbuster too. My education in film came from places like this. I miss them.

Don't Go Outside There are Monsters

Steps into Shadow

Continuing my seemingly never-ending fascination with dodgy-looking stairwells.

Trailer Trash: Beneath the A146

Abandoned and decaying beneath the A146 flyover, just outside of Norwich.

A Groping and Random Fashion: Ghosts in the Harford Hills

Easter Sunday morning skulking in the woods, and I came across the remains of a haphazard campsite / drug den. A thin plastic sheet erected from a few branches, blowing in the wind, put me in mind of a certain M R James bedsheet ghost: "... at once the spectator realised, with some horror and some relief, that it must be blind, for it seemed to feel about it with its muffled arms in a groping and random fashion..."

Crack'd

Selected Ambient Dread

The Mean Old Man of the Woods

With Halloween just around the corner, and all that.