![]() ![]() Reading alone had become default escapism from other children and difficult maths questions at school and I longed for something that I could vanish into, something less huge than middle earth but something more than the confines of The Witches (A huge favourite and monumental milestone in my journey to horror in its own right!).Īgain, like many kids in the 80s, I spent a lot of my time playing the ‘Fighting Fantasy’ Series – single player game books that were incredibly addictive and often disarmingly frustrating (eg. ![]() My dad had read me both the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings over a year of bedtimes and whilst I immersed myself completely in the plight of the story, I don’t think I was old enough to really appreciate the depth of Tolkien’s world-building. (I wasn’t allowed computer games either…I know, right? Dry your tears for me and do carry on…) This is probably common for many people and if, like me, you were a kid in the late 80s you didn’t have a TV in your room. There are many enemies…’Ī lot of my formative reading, I remember doing when I was ill in bed. ![]() ‘When a mouse is born, he must fight to survive. ![]()
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