HOW to SELL a HAUNTED HOUSE by Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix has tackled some of the most loved and known horror tropes – slashers, vampires, possession. With How to Sell a Haunted House,…
Category: Book Reviews
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Must admit that I approached this book knowing nothing about it, although the book comes with a high degree of provenance, as author Hays…
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
When I reviewed Leigh’s first adult Fantasy novel, Ninth House, I said that “Ninth House is worthy of the accolades being given it. I am…
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Hannah Fawcett
From the publisher: “Emily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost expert on the study of faeries; she is a genius…
The Dragonfly Delivery Company by Keith W. Dickinson
Keith W. Dickinson gleefully returns to Hammersmyth with another adventure for Dexter the mechanical cat, and his unlikely partner, John Sinister. Washerwomen, captains, and…
THE BLADED FAITH by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #1)
David Dalglish has published over 25 novels since 2010, many of them in the same secondary world of Dezrel (The Half-Orcs, Shadowdance). With The…
LUCKY GIRL: or HOW I BECAME A HORROR WRITER: A KRAMPUS STORY by M. Rickert
Randy reviewed this tale for our annual Countdown to Hallowe’en series recently (October 2022), but given the Yuletide nature of the story and how…
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock
Here’s the much-anticipated return of a classic Fantasy character, albeit one that has been here for a while. In 1961 we saw the publication…
THE SPARE MAN by Mary Robinette Kowal
Murder mysteries are very popular stories in movies and books. There’s a nice subgenre that melds murder mysteries and science fiction to give readers…
Dr. Who and the Daleks – The Official Story of the Films by John Walsh
It probably hasn’t passed you by that as I type this we are approaching the end of the year and are entering that time…
THE ART OF PROPHECY by Wesley Chu (The War Arts Saga #1)
Wesley Chu is a writer I’ve had on my “to read” list for a few years now, his Tao books are popular and well-received…
Celestial by M D Lachlan
Ziggy Da Luca is not an astronaut – she’s a Buddhist linguist. And yet she quickly finds herself as an additional extra on board…
The Actuality by Paul Braddon
The Actuality brings the favoured genre explorations of AI into our age. It questions what humanity is, with a frightening dose of climate impact.…
The Book of Mars Edited by Stewart Clark
If you are not a regular reader of reviews here at SFFWorld, you may not have realised that there is sometimes a pattern to…
Doctor Who and the Daleks (Illustrated version) by David Whitaker
As I type this, we’re approaching the 59th anniversary of the first episode being shown on the BBC. The last episode starring the current…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES by Marjorie Bowen
The house was built beside a river. In the evening the sun would lie reflected in the dark water, a stain of red in…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: LUCKY GIRL: or HOW I BECAME A HORROR WRITER: A KRAMPUS STORY by M. Rickert
There are all kinds of ghosts. We talk most about the ones that appear in the dark, less about those who never leave at…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: THE BOOK OF THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE by Sara Gran
I reached for him and traced a circle on the back of his neck, where a nice fat drop of sweat dripped, and I…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: THE SUPERNATURAL ENHANCEMENTS by Edgar Cantero
Yes, I blame the believers for my skepticism. Because they’re not up to it; they’re no challenge; they’re so easily proved fools, I hate…
Widowland by C J Carey
Widowland is an alternative history, which begins in Britain in 1953 in a coronation year, but NOT the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In…
