I will be appearing at this at the end of August! Details here....
https://goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blog/goshfest-2025/
Recent Scrawlings
I have not updated this site for a while. But here is a few random drawings from this year until I have something more substantial to post. Some are stand alone. One relates to a specific upcoming book project.
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| Dead (2025) |
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| (2024) |
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| Scarlet Smoking (2025) |
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| Aspect of Elle Fanning (2025) |
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| (2025) |
Pamela Franklin article in Darkside Magazine issue 266
An article I wrote on the actress Pamela Franklin is published this week in Darkside Magazine issue 266.
Pamela Franklin was a very gifted actress perhaps best known for playing Sandy in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' but she also starred in a number of memorable horror films including 'The Innocents', 'And Soon the Darkness' and 'The Legend of Hell House'.
In shops 24th April. You can also grab a copy here....
https://thedarksidemagazine.com/product/issue-266-dawn-of-the-shed/
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| 'And Soon the Darkness' |
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| 'The Night of the Following Day' |
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| 'The Nanny' |
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| 'The Innocents' |
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| 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' |
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| 'Thriller' episode 'Screamer' |
Sloppy Slopes 2
My contribution to 'Sloppy Slopes 2' , a new anthology by Frater Walpurgis is out today. My contribution features meditations around Frater Walpurgis demonic character Selfus Loathus.
The anthology also features contributions from Mike Diana, Ed Pinsent and Jason Atomic amongst others.
The book is £21.99 Message Frater Walpurgis at....
https://www.instagram.com/walpurgisfrater/
to get a copy. Also available at Gosh Comics.
The Muffin Man illustration
A scene from Andre Rostant's astounding London novel 'The Muffin Man'. Andre asked me to illustrate this dream/nightmare sequence from the novel in which a Big Issue seller transforms into a giant pigeon and attacks a man who has verbally abused him.
You can order a copy of 'The Muffin Man' here....https://arkbound.com/product/the-muffin-man-by-andre-rostant/
Feature on Trigger Warning Blog
Comics blogger Gary Usher kindly wrote a nice overview of my work from the last few years on his Trigger Warning Blog.
You can read it here....
https://ftmou.blogspot.com/2025/01/patrick-wray-storyteller-spotlight.html?zx=a3c05c4202d91679
The leading image he used to illustrate the blog post is a shot I did for the poster of 'Clapton Pond: A Radio Musical' (2018)
If this piques your interest you can listen to it here....
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/clapton-pond-a-musical/
I have not always historically posted links to interviews or features on my work on this site. However, I do plan to put aside some time in the near future to compile as many of these that I can find or can remember and put them in one place. The plan is to add a page on this site for these.
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| Clapton Pond (2018) |
10 Page Article in Darkside Magazine 262
I have a new article in Darkside Magazine issue 262 (though the issue was originally written at the end of 2023.
The article covers horror films that relate to real life paranormal phenomena such real life hauntings, UFO's, The Loch Ness Monster and The Bermuda Triangle.
The original article I submitted was an epic 10k in length so inevitably a few bits got chopped. A section on 'Snowbeast' (1977) was understandably cut as Darkside ran a piece on that in the previous issue. I have published it below for anyone who would like to know what I thought about 'Snowbeast'
The article uses the Usborne Books of Mysteries as a linking guide to the related subjects.
Films included are 'Amityville' (1979), 'The Entity' (1982), 'The Legend of Boggy Creek' (1972), 'The Loch Ness Horror' (1982), 'Communion' (1989), 'The Mothman Prophecies' (2002) and many others.
The article mentions Dean Alito's pioneering found footage video 'The Mcpherson Tape' (1989) aka 'Alien Abduction'. You can read an interview I did a couple of years ago with Dean for The Big Picture about 'The Mcpherson Tape' and his other work here...
You can order a copy of The Darkside here...
Darkside is also available in WH Smiths and many other news/magazine shops.
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| The Entity (1982) |
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| The Loch Ness Horror (1982) |
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| The UFO Incident (1975) |
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| The Legend of Boggy Creek (1975) |
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| Snow Beast (1977) |
In ‘Snowbeast’ (1977) a
Colorado ski resort is terrorised by a rogue Yeti which goes about mauling and
killing various locals and tourists on the slopes. There are lots of good
atmospheric scenes that utilise the frosty locations well and some creepy point
of view shots where the creature stalks its human prey from afar before running
toward them to attack; cue hysterical screams!
Despite being a ’made for TV’ outing, ‘Snowbeast’ manages to be a touch
nastier than most TV movies of the period with some mild bloodletting and a
creeping sense of threat present throughout.
Made in the post ‘Jaws’
(1975) climate, ‘Snowbeast’ applies the now familiar trope of local authorities
attempting to play down the turbulent events in order to protect the local tourist
trade. In this case it is resort owner Carrie Rill (Sylvia Sidney) who is
determined that any abominable goings will not overshadow the resorts annual
snow carnival.
A cast of seventies TV regulars such as Bo
Svenson, Yvette Mimieux and Clint Howard help to keep things from freezing over
and Joseph Stefano’s (‘Psycho’ (1960),
‘The Outer Limits’) script is pacey enough and delivers a few exciting scenes.
In one key sequence, the ‘Snowbeast’ attacks the school gymnasium as Rill and
the local youth orchestra rehearse for the snow carnival. Panic-stricken pandemonium takes hold and
everyone begins running around in a state of abject terror. When the young girl
who is to be crowned ‘Snow Queen’ searches for her mother whose car is parked nearby,
any elation she feels at being crowned
Snow Queen is soon extinguished when she discovers that her mother has
been brutally slain by the creature.
The dialogue in ‘Snowbeast’ is by and large, on
the dull side, however it does feature some memorable lines in the scene where
Tony Rill (Robert Logan) volunteers to identify a victim of the beast, " I must
have seen her somewhere, maybe I’ll recognize her when I see her face.’’; to
which the Sherriff (Howard) replies ‘’She doesn’t have one.’’
Director Herb Wallerstein
does a decent enough job with the direction and ‘Snowbeast’ is on the whole a pretty
entertaining flick. Wallerstein was a veteran of TV episode work with credits
on ‘Mission Impossible’ and ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ amongst others but ‘Snowbeast’
is his only feature. He was tragically bludgeoned to death by his housekeeper
in 1985.
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