OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

BIG SCREEN RELEASES

8 FEBRUARY

John Blair Killing the Dead Vampire epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World 536pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling

Child’s Play

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again