Category: Book Reviews
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The Feeding – by Anthony Ryan
Layla has spent her entire life in the Redoubt, one of the last bastions of humanity in a ravaged world. She’s never been beyond the Redoubt’s walls; only Crossers, with their special training and survival skills, are permitted to venture into the shadow-haunted wastelands. When Layla’s father falls ill, she knows she needs to find…
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Great Robots of History – by Tim Major
Long before the development of AI, humans created automatons in their own image. These sixteen weird tales explore magical and mechanical representations of humankind drawn from history and myth – from Odin carving humans from wood to Pygmalion’s living statue Galatea, from Julius Caesar’s animated wax effigy to the chess-playing Mechanical Turk, from the first…
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Black-Winged Angels – by Angela Slatter
With beautiful silhouette illustrations by the amazing multiple World Fantasy Award nominee Kathleen Jennings, Black-Winged Angels collects the nine reworked/reloaded fairytales for adult readers and the story ‘Flight’ from the original 2014 Ticonderoga Publications edition. In addition, this edition includes ‘The Mer-Pearl’ written specifically for the Dutch limited edition of the novel All the Murmuring Bones plus appendices including…
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Silver Nitrate – by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. Then her best friend Tristán introduces her to his new neighbour – cult horror director Abel Urueta, who promises that he can change all of their lives, if only…
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Of Sands and Tides – by Jan Edwards
When the old god Nyarlathotep lures Captain ‘Georgi’ Forsythe – special agent for the Ministry of the Arcane — to the Valley of the Kings, the battle for her place in this world begins. Eight thrilling adventures packed into one volume, taking us from ancient Luxor to the Loch Ness of 1932. Conflicting pantheons of…
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Zombie Apocalypse: Horror Hospital – by Mark Morris
London is in turmoil following riots and the Trafalgar Square Massacre. A doctor in a big East End hospital, already hard hit by government cutbacks and increasing social unrest, starts to get reports of something having happened at All Hallows church . . . Then, the first of the injured, including policemen and soldiers, start…
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Zombie Apocalypse: End Game – edited by Stephen Jones
Through interconnected eyewitness accountsemails, text messages, reports, diaries, found video footage, and graphic adaptations, Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame tells the story of the climactic final battle between the ZZ infantry of the New Zombie Order and the fighters of the human resistance. Who will win the endgame? Dark bleatings, my undead tribe! I’m here to review the third…
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A Good House for Children – by Kate Collins
The Reeve stands on the edge of the Dorset cliffs, awaiting its next inhabitants. Despite Orla’s misgivings, her husband insists this house will be the perfect place to raise their two children. In 1976, Lydia moves to Dorset as a nanny for a family grieving their patriarch. She soon starts to hear and feel things…
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Zombie Apocalypse: Acapulcalypse Now – by Alison Littlewood
The Hotel Baktun is an exclusive vacation complex that is about to open on the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. Owned by a mysterious multi-millionaire businessman, it is shaped like an ancient Mayan pyramid and its halls are lined with rare and expensive artefacts. For Stacy Keenan, the hotel’s new Head of Security, things are already…
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Zombie Apocalypse: Washington Deceased – by Lisa Morton
In this spin-off novel set within the Zombie Apocalypse, the zombies’ intelligence has increased and they have formed themselves into a society and an army. While New York and Los Angeles have fallen to the walking dead, Washington D.C. is still holding out, but time is running out for the battalions defending Capitol Hill! Dark…
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