SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty
So: let’s start this review with a confession: the movie The Exorcist (1973) is one of my favourite horror films. I first saw it…
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SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE SHOEMAKER’S MAGICIAN by Cynthia Pelayo
Film is an alchemical process, process of change. And my brother and I were alchemists, magicians. … Paloma, in The Shoemaker’s Magician The…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: ALL HALLOWS EVE Edited by Ellen Datlow
For those who don’t know, Ellen Datlow is generally regarded as one of the greatest genre editors and anthologists of the last 45 years…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: LOOKING GLASS SOUND by Catriona Ward
The water is deep and dark. I spit, my mouth is full of cold weed and small snails crawl over my face. My rotting…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: LETHAL KISS by Taylor Grothe
The competitive world of professorial academics, sapphic romance, and mythic Norse monsters coming alive fuel Taylor Grothe’s adult horror debut, Lethal Kiss. Told from…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE HAMMER HORROR OMNIBUS by John Burke
Recent reviews here at SFFWorld have mentioned the recent resurrection of the Hammer Horror film franchise with the 4K release of the 1958 film…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE CHILDREN OF CHICAGO by Cynthia Pelayo
Fin looked back down at the paper and then to her hands, fighting the urge to pick up a black crayon and scrawl a…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: FITCHER’S BIRD by A G Slatter
When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: A THEORY OF HAUNTING by Sarah Monette
Just past midnight on the eighth of August, the year I turned seventeen, the servants at Thirdhop Scarp were woken by screams – terrible…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: MAZYWOOD by Tananarive Due
Sometimes a book can completely upend your expectations, sometimes it can give you nothing like what you expected it to be, even if part…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: WHEN THE NIGHT COMES KNOCKING by Katherine Daniel
Many horror novels start with family strife or a family dealing with tragedy, while a great many horror stories are very much about monsters…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: FOG HEART by Thomas Tessier
… Charley, a ghost is a form of redemption. Oona Oliver and Carrie are a married couple in their 30s living in New…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE WARM HANDS OF GHOSTS by Katherine Arden
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with this one. Arden manages to combine real events – the Halifax explosion, The Battle of Passchendaele…
SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky has been an author that I have regrettably slept on for the past couple of years as a sci-fi lover, and with…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE RETURN by Rachel Harrison
“What do you mean, she’s missing?” Elise Julie was a free spirit in college who presided at the center of her group of buds,…
THE DISCWORLD BESTIARY: From the World of Terry Pratchett
Once upon a time, the sign that we were heading towards Christmas would be the arrival of a new Terry Pratchett book; and usually…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: MONSTERA by Delilah S. Dawson
Delilah S. Dawson is one of the most dependable, entertaining, and prolific storytellers across all genres. From fantasy, to near future SF, to media…
AS WE FALL THROUGH TIME by Claire North
It’s a bit of a paradox in itself, but to me time travel stories seem to be timeless. There’s something about them that seems…
BALDUR’S GATE 3 – Astarion by T. Kingfisher
Astarion Ancunin was supposed to be a magistrate, not a vampire spawn. He was supposed to serve the law, not the vicious vampire lord…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: SLEEPERS IN THE SNOW by Joanne Harris
Here at Hobbit Towers we have reached Autumn. Suddenly the nights have got longer and it feels just a little colder; which means that…
