Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• C.S. Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft and me 22 April 2018
    I’ve just been reading a blog post by a namesake of mine, which set me thinking about how the order in which one reads things could affect the way in which one interprets them. This other Stephen Hayes discovered me on Twitter a few years ago when someone made a comment to him on […]
• The art of serial killing 18 April 2018
  Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes My rating: 5 of 5 stars So how does a South African author come to write a crime novel set in Detroit? My initial response is that there are so many crime novels set in US cities that this seems a bit like carrying coals to Newcastle. And surely we’ve […]
• Literary Coffee Klatsch: the Horrors, Kidlit & more 12 April 2018
  There were only three of us at our literary coffee klatsch this morning, delayed because of Holy Weeks (Western and Eastern), and there hadn’t been much time for reading. But over the past few weeks I’ve been reading a bit about Horror as a literary genre | Khanya. Click on that link to see my […]
• Unbelief and Good Friday – Glory to God for All Things 6 April 2018
  I believe that Christians make a serious mistake when we begin to speak first about God rather than first about Christ and His death on the Cross and resurrection from the dead. It is a mistake because it presumes we know something about God that is somehow “prior” to those events. We do not, or, […]
• Horror as a literary genre (review) 20 March 2018
  Horror by Mark Jancovich My rating: 2 of 5 stars This is a very disorganised book. It begins with a discussion of the 1984 Video Recordings Act in Britain, and the issue of censorship, and then eventually notes that the Bill was “the culmination of a popular campaign against the so-called ‘video-nasties’… No clear definition […]