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  • There seems to be a groundswell of Horror novels with Horror movies as a major plot element (Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay, Curse of the Reaper by Brian McAuley, The House that Horror Built by Christina Henry) over the past couple of years. Craig DiLouie brings his writerly savvy with How to Make a Horror…
  • From the publisher: “Twenty-five of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world’s most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. Asimov’s short fiction has been…
  • Witches are at the heart of fantasy and folk-horror. Cursed objects, particularly cursed books, are a popular item featured in horror novels and stories. Take a cursed book about witches and you have C.J. Cooke’s The Book of Witching. A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft…
  • From the publisher: “From the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula, the perfect gift for those who love the dark fantastic imaginations of Neil Gaiman and T. Kingfisher, this is a nightmarish tale of a haunted Christmas set deep in the British countryside not too long ago. Cosy traditions are made twisted and terrifying as a…
  • Dark Academia is a movement/subset of fantasy where the setting is often universities and other places of learning and education. While the “label” has emerged only recently (roughly the last decade, the mid 2010s), stories featuring students and magic tinged with darkness are not necessarily new. But it is a popular subset of the genre…
  • Let’s start this review with a riddle: When is an author’s character not an author’s character? Taking the point aside that an author’s character becomes something else when the reader reads it,  I believe that generally it’s often when the book/film/story is adapted into something else. The relevance of that here? Well, this book uses…
  • It may be a shock for some to realise that it is 20 years since Susanna’s magnum opus, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was published – it was to me. For those who don’t know, Strange & Norrell was a densely yet meanderingly plotted novel of over 900 small-typed pages, a Dickensian-style Regency tale of…
  • Genoveva Dimova’s The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters continues in Monstrous Nights, the second book (second half?) of the story begun in Foul Days. Kosara, the whose bold actions in Foul Days must contend with the fallout from what she did. What is that, you may ask? In Foul Days Kosara found herself stripped of her…
  • Although author John Connolly is perhaps best known for his Charlie Parker detective novels (currently 21 books and counting), but over the past twenty years or so he has also been quietly producing creepy short stories as a sideline. His collections Nocturnes (2004) and Night Music (2015) have highlighted this element of his work. His…
  • Good things must come to an end, and it seems Kevin Hearne is bringing not just the Ink & Sigil series to an end, but the world of The Iron Druid to an end. Candle & Crow brings the story of Al MacBharrais to a close, a story that began in Ink & Sigil and…