An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
Jonathan Thornton
“It’s all right to be lost. How else can we find ourselves?” “Apathy breeds more evils than defeat. Keep fighting.” An Accident of Stars (2016) is the new portal fantasy…
Paternus by Dyrk Ashton – SPFBO Review: And Then There Was One!
Geoff Matthews
The SPFBO team have completed their search for a finalist! Today, only one book remains, and that is Paternus by Dyrk Ashton! Congratulations Dyrk! You are moving on to round…
Ravenmarked by Amy Rose Davis – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Two
The SPFBO team have completed their search for a finalist! Today, only one book remains, as we say farewell to Amy Rose Davis and Ravenmarked. You can read our review…
Vampires: Origins, Evolution, and Role in Fantasy Fiction
Leo Elijah Cristea
The vampire: a figure whose folklore origins date back as far as the cradle of civilisation, is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics.…
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Jo Niederhoff
It’s a safe bet to assume that most if not all of us have heard of Shirley Jackson, regardless of how much of her work we’ve read. My first experience…
Pretty Little Dead Girls by Mercedes M. Yardley
T. O. Munro
Pretty Little Dead Girls was the first of Ms Yardley’s books I ever read. I sort of flirted with the idea of buying it for quite a while. The title,…
Worldbuilding: Using The Creation Story To Help Design A Belief System
B. Pine
Is a faith system vital to any fantasy story? Definitely. Even in a fictional setting, people need a raison d’être and comforting explanations for the mysteries of life. Religion is…
The Warded Man to become a movie?
Overlord
Well, we all know books being ‘optioned’ doesn’t mean they are actually going to become movies anytime soon, but every time it happens we get a little bit excited. Last…
The Raven by Aderyn Wood – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Two
Richard Bray
The SPFBO team are making steady progress in our search for a finalist. To avoid cruelly stretching things out, we’ll be posting (in no particular order) individual reviews for those…
A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
Eric Christensen
A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky is the story of M, a very old and very powerful magician, who has returned to New York City after some time away. Although…
Detritus In Love by Mercedes M. Yardley & John Boden + Interview with the Authors
Detritus in Love opens with a fourteen-year-old boy discovering that he can see and hear dead people. Three years later he’s not only made some dead friends, but he’s fallen…
Potions, Alchemy, & Apothecaries: Inspirations from the Real World
Nicola Alter
A witch hunched over a bubbling cauldron; a reclusive alchemist searching for the secret to eternal life; a hooded figure procuring a poison from a shady apothecary… While these are…