Category: Book Reviews
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Roads Less Travelled – Vol. 2 – by Rhys Hughes and Susan York – Book Review
Welcome to Volume 2 of Roads Less Travelled. This time around we’ve got the amazing, unusual, gloriously inventive Rhys Hughes, with a story that has been many years in the making. In addition, there’s a marvellously conceived and executed grand-guignol of a story from rising star Susan York. I’ve interviewed both authors, and their comments and…
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Architecture – by Paul Flewitt – Book Review
The homeless are being taken from the streets of the city; when she wakes in the morning to find herself painted red it sends Gabriel Travente on a journey to discover herself… There are ceremonies and rites which occur at various times in the world’s history, and they have the power to change the course…
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Through the Surface – by Juliet Rose – Book Review
Two tragedies, a few months apart and multiple states away from each other, leaves four people dead with one fighting for their life. As a result, this uproots the lives of teenagers Ledger Elliot and Iris Brubaker, who know nothing of each other. Fifteen years later, their paths cross when Iris moves to the small…
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Festival – by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon – Book Review
New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival to die for in this illustrated novel with artwork by Peter Bergting! The Valhalla music festival commemorates a long-ago Viking slaughter, but when strange things start to happen it seems the massacre may be far from over. When festival-goers begin to…
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The Weird Tales Boys – by Stephen Jones – Book Review
When the history of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned. Originally selling for just twenty-five cents on news-stands, and printed on low-grade ‘pulp’ paper, Weird Tales was the first magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in…
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Tooth & Claw – by Dave Jeffery – Book Review
There’s no place quite like Cofton Grange. Set in twelve-hundred acres of hills and woodland, it is a playground for the wealthy where, for the right price, every desire is made a reality.Tonight is special; a group of hunters have bought into the most exclusive contest, the opportunity to track and kill a fantastic and…
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South of Heaven – by Erin Louis – Book Review
Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven. Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor…
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Carrion Comfort – by Dan Simmons – Book Review
THE PAST… Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves… THE PRESENT… Compelled by…
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Dead Inside – by Chandler Morrison – Book Review
In this bleak and disturbingly erotic debut novel, iconoclast Chandler Morrison provides readers with a dark exploration of the nature of death, individuality, and generational identity. Along the way, lines will be crossed, taboos will be violated, and common decency will take an extended leave of absence. This is not for the faint of heart…
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Full Immersion – by Gemma Amor – Book Review
A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette. When Magpie discovers her own dead body one misty morning in Bristol, it prompts her to uncover the truth of…
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