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…
The SFcrowsnest archive
In the heyday of horror, the scenarios that often worked well were in the closed society. It was a technique pioneered in crime…
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…
I’m not sure what to make of ‘The Burning Dark’ as it could be described as being a ghost story with a SF…
‘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…
‘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…
The new version of the DC Universe is already in trouble. It is the near future and few super-heroes are still alive. Those…
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…
Taken from the cover: ‘The disappearance of homeless men foraging through trash at night and nuisance skater kids rolling their boards along the…
Necessity is the mother of invention. As the post-war UK experienced a paper shortage in the early 1950s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ was…
The latest release from the new Hammer Films is an obscure horror thriller about a psychiatrist’s strange experiment to prove that what appears…
This issue of ‘On Spec’ features two post-apocalypse stories, two sad stories and a pair of lightly amusing fantasy tales. First up is…
Here be stories. ‘Last Stand At Catesby’s Books’ starts with a chap with a rifle squatting by a pile of books, waiting to…