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Black Ships by Jo Graham (book review).
‘Black Ships’ is an interesting retelling of Aeneus’s story from the perspective of Gull, a priestess of Apollo. While Jo Graham’s novel might…
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May 2024
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HP Lovecraft Collected Essays Volume 1: Amateur Journalism edited: ST Joshi (book review).
Of all the volumes in this series, ‘Collected Essays Volume 1: Amateur Journalism’ was the one for which I had the least sense…
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His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories About HP Lovecraft edited by S.T. Joshi (book review).
In a recent episode of the excellent ‘The Good Friends of Jackson Elias’ podcast, one of the presenters recalled a situation where a…
April 2024
ReviewHorror
Lovecraftian People And Places by Ken Faig (book review).
To some extent, HP Lovecraft’s identification with the city of Providence is an integral part of his personal mythology. No less important are…
February 2024
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Why We Love Middle-Earth by Shawn E Marchese & Alan Sisto (book review).
Podcasts have done some amazing things with science fiction and fantasy fiction, prompting serious discussion and promoting deeper reading far better than any…
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The Recognition Of HP Lovecraft: His Rise From Obscurity To World Renown by S.T. Joshi (book review).
For all his fame today, HP Lovecraft’s recognition as a great writer was a long time coming. In ‘The Recognition of HP Lovecraft’,…
January 2024
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Collected Essays Volume 5: Philosophy, Autobiography & Miscellany by HP Lovecraft edited by ST Joshi (book review).
In some ways, this volume of the excellent perhaps even essential ‘Collected Essays’ series is the most difficult to review objectively. While HP…
December 2023
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When The Stars Are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy by Edward Guimont and Horace A. Smith (book review).
Before he published his fiction in the amateur press, H.P. Lovecraft wrote his own astronomy journal and had pieces published in local newspapers.…
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Blade Runner 2039: Luv Vol. 1 by Mike Johnson, Mellow Brown and Andres Guinaldo (graphic novel review).
Following on from an earlier series, ‘Blade Runner 2019’, this particular volume contains the first four issues of a series set twenty years…
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Lovecraft Annual #17 (2023) edited by ST Joshi (book review).
Every year, the ‘Lovecraft Annual’ brings together a collection of critical essays about HP Lovecraft. There’s no overall theme as such, so each…
November 2023
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Stroke Of The Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett (book review).
The fact Terry Pratchett died back in 2015 hasn’t stopped him from releasing new books. ‘A Stroke Of The Pen’ is a collection…
October 2023
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Androne by Dwain Worrell (book review).
In short, ‘Androne’ is a pretty darn good for a first novel. Set in the near future, Dwain Worrell imagines a world where…