Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Lew Kelly
A curiously told tale, not driven by words but by pictures; a unique selling point, and probably the reason why Ransom Rigg’s debut novel dominated the New York Times Bestseller…
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Monthly Short Story Winner: Fantasy Clichés
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Second Olympus by K. A. Stewart
Nicole Singer
Dozens of authors have tried their hands at variations on Greek gods-themed storylines over the years—so much so that these stories often start to feel a bit stale—which is why…
The Soundtrack to Starborn
Lucy Hounsom
So this post is slightly embarrassing, as I’m about to reveal to you some of the music I enjoy listening to. There are lots of elements to cover in Starborn,…
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
James Davies
Wizard and Glass is a reflection novel (no pun intended). We have now reached what could tentatively be referred to as the middle volume in this seven-book long series, and…
Does Size Really Matter? – Fantasy Shorts
Victoria Hooper
We are used to fantasy being big – epicly big in many cases – running in countless volumes of increasing size, or the kind of thick tomes that take up…
Elvenquest Radio Comedy
Geoff Matthews
In the third age of Lower Earth, called by some the Silver Age because it was not quite golden and platinum was too expensive, the questors sought the Sword of…
The Month Ahead: Fantasy Book Releases in May
Overlord
You know when you’re sat on a train or wandering around the park and you walk past someone reading ‘that book’ you’ve been really excited about? You do a double-take…
The Perilous Sea by Sherry Thomas
Joie
I think I have a love/hate relationship with this series. The story itself is riveting—if you can get past the telling of it. The characters grow on you so much…
The Waste Lands by Stephen King
There is just so much right about The Waste Lands it actually hurts my mind to picture anything wrong with the novel. Not only does it maintain the quality of…
The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan
Steff Humm
When writing memoirs, or indeed anything, it seems essential to cluster events thematically, throwing away all the boring bits in the process (such as laundry and visits to the bathroom)…
Arsenic and Old Leaves: The Art of Poisoning Your Fantasy Characters – Part 1
Faith M. Boughan
So, you’re contemplating murder. Er, that is, your character is contemplating murder. Effective modes of death and all that. Bloodless versus bloodbath, public duel versus private confrontation, “accident” versus spontaneous…