SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: CLASSIC HORROR STORIES Edited by David Stuart Davies
And the last review for Halloween 2024! Here’s my review of a book for Halloween that deals with classics. In the small hardback format,…
Category: Book Reviews
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: LONELY VIGILS by Manly Wade Wellman
And on the last day of October we finish our usual Halloween Countdown with not just one but two reviews today! First up, Randy’s…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: THE ANGEL OF INDIAN LAKE (Indian Lake Trilogy #3) by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones (SGJ) “…leaves fingerprints all over his work. You know you’re reading an SGJ story if it’s coming-of-age, the main theme is…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon
… [He watched] where the water spilled into the cement curb that formed a pool under the spout. He washed his hands, bits of…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: OUT THERE SCREAMING: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele
As it’s Halloween month, I was pleased to receive this one for review. From the publisher: “Jordan Peele, the visionary writer and director of Get…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: THE BEETLE by Richard Marsh
… They were eyes,—I told myself they were eyes. I had heard how cats’ eyes gleam in the dark, though I had never seen…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: THE HOUSE OF LAST RESORT by Christopher Golden
It seems only like five minutes ago that I reviewed Christopher’s All Hallows for last year’s Halloween. But here we are again – another…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024: OUT OF THE DROWNING DEEP by A. C. Wise
From the publisher: “Scribe IV is an obsolete automaton, peacefully whiling away his years on the Bastion, a secluded monastery in an abandoned corner of the galaxy. But…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2024 Article: FIVE BOOKS TO READ FOR HALLOWEEN
Note: This article was originally written recently for a local book club. I was given the brief of suggesting books for a general readership…
SMALL TOWN HORROR by Ronald Malfi
Over the past decade and a half or so, Ronald Malfi has emerged as one of the most consistently engaging and terrifying voices in…
EXODUS: The Archimedes Machine by Peter F. Hamilton
“Listen: I’ve got an appreciation for girth. Giggle if you must, but what I’m referring to are thick, dense novels where I can lose…
ROAD TO RUIN by Hana Lee (Magebike Courier #1)
Not all post-apocalyptic novels are cut from the same cloth. Sure many have common themes/settings, but not all have magic as an integral part…
DIVE BEYOND ETERNITY by Valeriya Salt
This alternative history science fiction thriller is set on the English east coast blending a lost World War II U-boat with time travel. It…
UFO: SHADOW PLAY by James Swallow
Recently I was pleased to receive for review two novellas based on two Gerry Anderson television series being published by Anderson Entertainment, the company…
SPACE 1999: THE ARMAGEDDON ENGINE by James Swallow
It’s a well-known fact in my household that, like many of my age, the programmes of Gerry Anderson in the 1960s were my first…
SO THIRSTY by Rachel Harrison
Possession…witches…werewolves…Satanic Cults, Rachel Harrison has covered some of the top iconic characters/tropes/creatures of the horror genre. With So Thirsty, she tackles perhaps the most…
BLACKWATER (Part 1): The Flood by Michael McDowell
The story of this book’s publication in the UK is a long and complicated one, but keeping it simple, Blackwater was first published in…
DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1)
LitRPG is one of the biggest subgenres to emerge in the last decade or so. A subset of the fantasy/science fiction genre, the story…
LONG LIVE EVIL by Sarah Rees Brennan (The Time of Iron #1)
Portal Fantasies are one of the most traditional kinds of fantasies, those in which characters from “the real world” find themselves transported to a…
HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING by Django Wexler (Dark Lord Davi #1)
Imagine dying 237 times and waking up in the same place after you are killed. You have memories of what you’ve done in your…
