SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram
When in May, 1886, I found myself at last in Paris, I naturally determined to throw myself on the charity of an old chum…
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SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: THE REMAKING by Clay McLeod Chapman
Stories have power. Dark stories can have dark powers, dark infectious power. In Clay McLeod Chapman’s The Remaking the burning of two witches (mother…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: Sherlock Holmes and the Tangled Skein by David Stewart Davies
And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: EUROPEAN TRAVEL FOR THE MONSTROUS GENTLEWOMAN by Theodora Goss
Randy’s latest for Halloween is the second in a series (the first book was reviewed earlier in the month) that takes Gothic tropes and…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: A LUSH AND SEETHING HELL by John Horner Jacobs
John Horner Jacobs has been spinning dark tales for a few years now, but unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to read his work…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: Ghoster by Jason Arnopp
Jason’s last novel, The Last Days of Jack Sparks (reviewed here) was a best-seller here in the UK. I liked it a lot –…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER by Theodora Goss
Randy’s latest this month is a modern take on Gothic classics. A thick layer of ivy grew up the walls to the third floor,…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Part Frankentstein, with a heavy dose of the Jewish Golem myth, with murder and personal identity thrown into the mix of Victorian England, and…
New York Comic Con 2019 Convention Report
Early October in New York means thousands upon thousands of people will descend upon the Jacob K. Javits Center. People decked out as their…
Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
In the beginning, in the future, the discovery of time travel became known to all. As a result, chaos reigned, history was written and…
The Rowankind Series By Jacey Bedford
Rowankind is a three book historical fantasy series published in the US by DAW. The trilogy falls right into my ‘guilty pleasures’ reading. Set…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: AVAILABLE DARK by Elizabeth Hand
Here we begin with Randy’s first review of the month. Outside [the car] stretched an expanse of rock flensed of any vegetation, even moss…
FULL THROTTLE by Joe Hill
Joe Hill has become a trusted, brand name storyteller over the course of the last decade or so. With novels and stories garnering awards…
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Even in these hyper-enhanced times, it’s not every day that a book arrives for review with glowing recommendations from a broad range of authors.…
A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS by Shaun Hamill
A troubled family is beset by dark visits, as told by the youngest child from a time before he is born. He recounts his…
Cold Storage by David Koepp
So: what do you expect when a book appears from the scriptwriter of Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible? Cold Storage is that kind…
Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
Just over twenty years ago, Stephen published a trilogy of books (The NASA Trilogy) set in an alternate near-future where human space exploration had…
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
It’s a bit of a shock to realise that it’s nearly fifteen years since I first read Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, Book One…
The Grip of it by Jac Jemc
When a book arrives with a blurb recommending it from Jeff Vandermeer, you sort’ve know what to expect – expect weird. This creepy tale…
The Song of the Sycamore by Edward Cox
Ed’s previous trilogy of novels (collectively known as The Guild Trilogy) have built up a reputation for stylistic grimness, a Grimdark sensibility but one…
