Nina Allan Interview – The Rift
Jonathan Thornton
Nina Allan is one of the finest writers operating in the field of speculative fiction. Her debut novel The Race (2014) was released to critical acclaim, and was nominated for…
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Ruthanna Emrys Interview – Deep Roots
Ruthanna Emrys is the author of Winter Tide (2017), first book in The Innsmouth Legacy series, a wonderful subversion of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936). The series…
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Eric Christensen
Looking at the list of genres above, it’s clear that I had difficulties categorizing Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne. But I suppose that is what the New Weird is all about. Although…
Joe Hill Interview – Strange Weather
Joe Hill is the best-selling, award-winning author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4R2 (2013), and The Fireman (2016), as well as comics including Locke & Key (2008-2013)…
Urskuul’s Reading Circle: It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Dan Sutcliffe
Hello all, and welcome to the latest newsletter from Urskuul’s Reading Circle. It has been a while since the last one was issued, and I’d like to extend my apologies…
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Charlie Hopkins
At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it had remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the front door…
Adding to the To-Be Read: East Asian Fantasy
Jennie Ivins
Yesterday we learned a bit about qi and how it relates to fantasy. I found the article fascinating and realized I had read very few books set in/or based on…
Over The Garden Wall – TV Series Review
Max Freeman
“Leave if you wish, but remember: the beast haunts these woods, ever singing its mournful melody…” When I was young, I loved the fantasy section of the library. Not content…
Aliya Whiteley Interview – The Beauty & The Arrival of Missives
Aliya Whiteley is an author of strange and lyrical stories about fungal infections that breed new life even as they end the world and mysterious messages from the future. Her…
IT – 2017 Movie Review
This is barely a review. It’s a personal mind vomit of my thoughts after seeing IT for people who have either read the book and or seen the original miniseries,…
Death Note – 2017 Movie Review
Malcolm Pope
Death Note is a Japanese manga series created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata about a teenage genius, Light Yagami, who one day finds a notebook capable of killing any…
Devil’s Call by J. Danielle Dorn
“On a dark night in the summer of 1859, three men enter the home of Dr Matthew Callahan and shoot him dead in front of his pregnant wife. Unbeknownst to…