ReviewHorror
Terror Tales Of The Scottish Lowlands edited by Paul Finch (book review).
Each book in the ‘Terror Tales’ series focuses on an area of Britain and features short fiction accompanied by articles about ‘real-life’ weird…
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December 2021
November 2021
ReviewFantasy
Look Where You Are Going Not Where You Have Been (The Harvester series book 9) by Steven J Dynes (book review).
Many writers at the start of their careers are told to write about what they know. Indeed, one agent told their author that…
ReviewHorror
Hell’s Bounty by Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale (book review).
‘Hell’s Bounty’ is a book with a chequered history! The copy I received from the SFCrowsnest review stockpile was the original Subterranean Press…
ReviewHorror
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (book review).
I love reading ghost stories. I am also interested in learning about Japan, its people, culture and fiction. So when I got offered…
October 2021
ReviewHorror
Vampires From Another World by Simon Bacon (book review).
For this book, ‘Vampires From Another World’, author Simon Bacon in his introduction contests that because HG Wells’ ‘The War Of The Worlds’…
September 2021
ReviewHorror
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (book review).
Eddie is dead. Andrew went to his funeral and has inherited his estate, but as alone as he feels Andrew also knows Eddie…
ReviewHorror
Rituals (Cainsville series book 5) by Kelley Armstrong (book review).
Writers who produce series are faced with a dilemma. Not everyone finds the first book and may enter the plot arc part-way through.…
August 2021
ReviewHorror
Necronomicon (Gothic Dreams) by Sammy Maine (book review).
‘The Necronomicon’ was, of course, a fictional book first used by HP Lovecraft in a short story, ‘The Nameless City’, published in 1921.…
ReviewHorror
The Monster In The Mirror: Looking For HP Lovecraft by Robert H Waugh (book review).
As one of the foremost exponents of Lovecraft scholarship, Robert Waugh sagely kicks off this impressive study by asking that most crucial of…
July 2021
ReviewFantasy
Eternal Vigilance book 1: From Deep Within The Earth by Gabrielle S. Faust (book review)
The idea of having medical conditions, physical or mental, on some kind of spectrum is an increasing phenomenon. It seems that vampirism could…
ReviewScifi
The Dark by Jeremy Robinson (book review).
There are a handful of authors I will read, regardless of what their new book is about. I see their name and go…
May 2021
ReviewFantasy
Cthulhu: Dark Fantasy, Horror & Supernatural Movies by Gordon Kerr (book review).
From the striking front cover painting of Cthulhu literally eating the world through to the mind-flayer smoking a pipe on page 89, ‘Cthulhu:…