ReviewFantasy
Feather And Bone by Gus Smith (book review).
In the heyday of horror, the scenarios that often worked well were in the closed society. It was a technique pioneered in crime…
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ReviewBooks
The Falling Machine (The Society Of Steam book One) by Andrew P. Mayer (book review).
A steampunk super-hero secret society. What’s not to like about that? The Paragons are such a group. Sarah Stanton is the only child…
ReviewScifi
The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher (book review).
I’m not sure what to make of ‘The Burning Dark’ as it could be described as being a ghost story with a SF…
ReviewHorror
The Remaining by D.J. Molles (book review).
‘The Remaining’ isn’t just another zombie apocalypse novel. Actually, it is, but author D.J. Molles has tweaked his re-telling of a fate worse…
ReviewFantasy
Celeste by I.N.J. Culbard (graphic novel review).
‘Celeste’ is a graphic novel by I.N.J. Culbard whose graphics I have enjoyed on the ‘Brass Sun: The Wheel Of Worlds’ mini-series. His…
ReviewComics
The New 52: Future’s End # 0 Special Edition (comic review).
The new version of the DC Universe is already in trouble. It is the near future and few super-heroes are still alive. Those…
ReviewHorror
Hammer Films’ Psychological Thrillers 1950-1972 by David Huckvale (book review).
If you only thought Hammer Films only created monster horror films, then David Huckvale’s book ‘Hammer Films’ Psychological Thrillers 1950-1972’ should be pretty…
ReviewFantasy
Not Flesh Nor Feather (an Eden Moore story book 3) by Cheri Priest (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘The disappearance of homeless men foraging through trash at night and nuisance skater kids rolling their boards along the…
ReviewFantasy
The Lascar’s Dagger (The Forsaken Lands book 1) by Glenda Larke (book review).
Necessity is the mother of invention. As the post-war UK experienced a paper shortage in the early 1950s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ was…
ReviewHorror
The Quiet Ones (2013) (film review).
The latest release from the new Hammer Films is an obscure horror thriller about a psychiatrist’s strange experiment to prove that what appears…
ReviewFantasy
On Spec: The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic vol 25 no. 4 # 95 (magazine review).
This issue of ‘On Spec’ features two post-apocalypse stories, two sad stories and a pair of lightly amusing fantasy tales. First up is…
ReviewScifi
On Spec: The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic vol 25 no. 3 # 94 (magazine review).
Here be stories. ‘Last Stand At Catesby’s Books’ starts with a chap with a rifle squatting by a pile of books, waiting to…