NealeMonks, Author at SFcrowsnest

Collected Essays Volume 4: Travel by HP Lovecraft and edited by ST Joshi (book review).

Famously, more interested in the architectural atmosphere of a place than the people who lived there, Lovecraft was surprising well-travelled,

The first thing to understand about this curious book, ‘A Monster For Many: Talking With H P Lovecraft’, is that

While Lovecraft isn’t today well-known as a poet, in his time he wrote a great deal of verse in a

Effectively wrapping up the saga that started with ‘The Crystal Shard’ more than thirty years ago, ‘Relentless’ may be marketed

The idea that comets bring doom is hardly new. An image of Halley’s Comet is famously embroidered into the Bayeux

Using the London Underground as a setting for the bizarre or horrific has a venerable and significant history. Doyle, of

‘The Many Lives Of Heloise Starchild’ is fundamentally the story about the experiences of women through a line of matrilineal

Dungeons & Dragons novels are rarely literature, but they should at least exciting romps that are true to the spirit

‘The Actual Star’ is one of those books that tries to tell multiple stories at once, intertwining them and using

If the titular character, Professor Quanderhorn, immediately suggests Bernard Quatermass, you’d not be far off the inspiration for the BBC