My guests tonight are novelist John Connolly, columnist Brenda Power and arts journalist Anna Carey.

Directed by the master of horror John Carpenter, The Ward stars Amber Heard as a young woman who finds herself held against her will in a 1960's psychiatric hospital. Not only that but this is a 1960's psychiatric ward in a John Carpenter movie - and he's a man with form when it comes to slasher horror in a hospital. And sure enough there's an evil presence and people do start disappearing. Carry On Doctor it ain't.

And now for something possibly even more scary. Directed by Roger Michell, Morning Glory stars Rachel McAdams as Becky, a perky, irritating and deeply ambitious television producer who gets a job on morning show, her mission to arrest the falling ratings and save the day. She brings in Mike Pomeroy, a grumpy, old-school news anchor played by Harrison Ford who wouldn't spit on this kind of show if it was on fire but he's contractually obliged.

Mistaken is the new novel from Neil Jordan. It's a Gothic tale which starts in Dublin and spreads further afield as the lives of two Dublin boys becoming dangerously entwined. One boy lives in Marino, the other in Palmerston Park, and yet for all their social differences, they look so alike that they are regularly mistaken for each other. Everyone from bus conductors to girlfriends can't tell them apart and before long they start to swop identities as it suits them. It makes for all sorts of dark adventures but it will, of course, end in tears. Mistaken is published by John Murray.

Heroes and Kings of the Shahnama is an exhibition just opened at the Chester Beatty Library. Known as the Iranian national epic, The Shahnama or Book of Kings is one of the great epics of world literature written by the poet Firdawsi in the year 1010 - the longest recorded poem ever written by a single author running to some 60,000 verses. To mark its 1000th anniversary the Chester Beatty Library is presenting a major exhibition of some 150 works, all drawn from its own important Shahnama collection. Heroes and Kings of the Shahnama is at the Chester Beatty until March 20th.

Nominated for Best Irish Act at the entertainment.ie awards, Vyvienne Long joins us with her new single, Bad Move, taken from the CD Caterpillar Sarabande.