ReviewScifi
The Land Unknown (1957) (film review).
A team is briefed about an oasis in the Antarctic that they are to investigate. The military team is going to be accompanied…
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ReviewHorror
Cryptology # 11 October 2026 (magazine review).
Cryptology #11 from TwoMorrows dives into The Creature from the Black Lagoon, horror hosts, Richard Powers covers, the Golem and Hammer's The Nanny.
ReviewHorror
Beating The Devil: The Making Of Night Of The Demon by Tony Earnshaw (book review).
Set yourself a task. Find out about a book that you didn’t know existed and see how quickly you can find a copy…
ReviewHorror
Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) (film review).
GF Willmetts tracks down an Italian DVD of Spider Baby, Jack Hill's 1967 cult horror with Lon Chaney Jr. as chauffeur to a…
ReviewScifi
Time Jump by Adam Simcox (book review).
Sue Davies reviews Adam Simcox's Time Jump, in which guilt-ridden Rachel wins a free trip back to 1997 to undo a death, and…
ReviewBooks
Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).
Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from…
ReviewScifi
Waking The Warriors by Ben Okri (book review)
When mainstream writers venture into the realms of SF or fantasy the result is often a disaster, partly because it is not the…
ReviewScifi
More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review)
GF Willmetts tracks down More Women of Wonder, Pamela Sargent's 1976 anthology of SF novelettes by women, where Joan Vinge's 'Tin Soldier' is…
ReviewScifi
No Laughing Matter: Horror Short Stories (Beyond And Within) edited by Mike Chinn and Peter Coleborn (bok review)
‘No Laughing Matter’ is an anthology of nineteen tales that aim to ‘tread the thin line between horror and laughter’. First up is…
ReviewScifi
Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)
‘Creative Futures’ is not your usual anthology but comes with big credentials. It’s a collaboration between science fiction writers, Coventry University and the…
ReviewFantasy
Songs Of The Dead: The Strata Wars book 1 by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian (book review).
Collaborative writing is difficult to master. Some, like Iain Grant and Heide Goody, produce fiction where it is almost impossible to separate the…
ReviewHorror
Van Helsing And His Kin by Daniel O’Brien (book review)
Author Daniel O’Brien makes a strong point in his introduction to ‘Van Helsing And His Kin’ that, next to the legendary Count…you know…