New post - SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE SHOEMAKER’S MAGICIAN by Cynthia Pelayo

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Film is an alchemical process, process of change. And my brother and I were alchemists, magicians. … Paloma, in The Shoemaker’s Magician The Shoemaker’s Magician, second of her Chicago novels after The Children of Chicago (reviewed here), taps into one of my favorite tropes: cursed films. An excellent occult horror-fantasy, the core premise concerns…

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