Michael S Collins was born in a place which no longer exists, in a universe which thankfully does. With over a hundred articles and stories in print, he has written for places as diverse as the Doctor Who Appreciation Society magazine Celestial Toyroom, to The Fortean Times. Living in Glasgow with child and wife, Michael sadly does not own a pet llama. Yet.
Was Conan Doyle’s The Horror Of The Heights the first Lovecraft horror?
MICHAEL S. COLLINS takes a look at Arthur Conan Doyle's ground-breaking The Horror of the Heights
Farewell Douglas Wilmer – TV’s Sherlock Holmes
MICHAEL S. COLLINS bids farewell to 1960s Sherlock Holmes TV star Douglas Wilmer, who died recently aged 96
The Curse of Derby County
MICHAEL S. COLLINS tells how Derby County Football Club was long dogged by a 'gypsy curse'
Winston Churchill, Horror Writer
MICHAEL S. COLLINS shows us a different side to the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill
James Turner’s St Christopher Medallion
MICHAEL S. COLLINS introduces us to a mostly unknown ghost story by a man at the centre of a very famous haunting
The Horror of Predestination
MICHAEL S. COLLINS tells us why predestination is such a popular concept in horror
Write What You Know (and how it killed Sheridan Le Fanu)
MICHAEL S. COLLINS describes how too much horror might have been too much for Sheridan Le Fanu!
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