Fatemarked by David Estes
Birthmark Powers, Zombie-like Disease, and Inter-Family Killing. Fatemarked is fun epic fantasy that hits all the genre-expected points: Prophecy, bloody coups, war, magic, a…
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Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
Our last review for Hallowe’en 2017, again by Randy M., is a classic that may not initially strike you as particularly ghostly. But stay…
SIEGE LINE by Myke Cole
Myke Cole brings The Reawakening, his second trilogy featuring a world very much like our own aside from the reemergence and militarization of magic,…
Countdown to Halloween 2017: A FEAST OF SORROWS by Angela Slatter
As we get to Hallowe’en 2017, here’s the first of two reviews from Randy to give you something to read (and possibly keep you…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: THE TRAVELLING GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES by L. P. Hartley
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en is another forgotten classic, reviewed by Randy. Here is a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a…
Infinite Stars: Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Infinite Stars is a mighty tome that has an ambitious purpose – to bring together a range of disparate worlds from Space Opera…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Parasite by Mira Grant
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en is a more recent classic, and Hugo Award nominee, that our reviewer Rob Bedford (this time writing at Tor.com) liked…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell
Here we return to Paul’s Merrily Watkins-esque world of quaint rural English villages, fabulous Cotswold landscapes and dark things hiding in the shadows. The…
STRANGE WEATHER by Joe Hill
After four best-selling, extremely well-received dark fantastic novels and an outstanding comic book series, Joe Hill returns to shorter fiction, with Strange Weather a…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The Lost Village by Neil Spring
As Autumn arrives at Hobbit Towers, and we continue to Countdown to Hallowe’en, here’s a creepy tale from the author of The Ghost…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich by Fritz Leiber
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en is another neglected classic from a master of Horror reviewed by Randy. Any way you look at it, the story has…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en is another favourite from SFFWorld stalwart Rob Bedford. He was inspired by Randy’s thoughts here at SFFWorld back in 2010 (which…
A PLAGUE OF GIANTS by Kevin Hearne
Kevin Hearne, author of the enormously successful Iron Druid Chronicles, launches a new series with A Plague of Giants, the first installment of The…
Austral by Paul McAuley
Cli-fi. We had a discussion on it at SFFWorld a while back, and the impression was that, with global changes occurring, it was going…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017 – Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin Kiernan
The latest Countdown to Hallowe’en review from Randy is a recent novella, that he highly recommends: The Signalman picks up one of the photographs,…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The World of Lore by Aaron Mahnke
I’ll need to start this one with a bit of a story – but please bear with me, it has relevance. When I…
THE CORE by Peter V. Brett (Demon Cycle #5)
The Core – the final novel in Peter V. Brett’s Demon Cycle saga and the place where the final confrontation between humanity and the…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon
And just in time for our traditional Countdown to Hallowe’en… You may know Kim Newman from his Anno Dracula books, those culturally-dense stories of…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck by Alexander Laing
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en is a once near-forgotten novel that has been given a recent reissue: … [A]ll our reactions must also have been…
The Bastard Legion by Gavin Smith
I remember when Gavin Smith’s debut novel, Veteran, hit the shelves, and with it came this confident and action-orientated voice that was much fun…
