A God in the Shed by J-F. Dubeau
Charlie Hopkins
Saint-Ferdinand’s cemetery is far too large. It’s a quiet and idyllic village with a small police station, family owned diners and a grocery store but for the last twenty years…
horror
Urskuul’s Reading Circle: Parasitology by Mira Grant – Series Review
Dan Sutcliffe
Spoiler Warning: This review contains some spoilers for the Parasitology series. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish the books. “Our story opens where countless stories have…
Urskuul’s Reading Circle: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Hello, and welcome to the first official Urskuul’s Reading Circle Newsletter! Read on for brand new details of the discussions that occurred at the latest meeting (wherein we reviewed the…
Relics by Tim Lebbon
Laura M. Hughes
‘I like the fact there can be so many secret places in a city filled with people. It gives me hope.’ ‘Hope for what?’ Dean frowned, unsure. He searched for…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Nightmares
Xiagan
Everybody knows about nightmares, so I felt that in this case an introduction wasn’t necessary. Rules: 1. This must be prose or poetry. 2. A nightmare or nightmares must be…
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Jonathan Thornton
Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter medium. The line includes both established authors and those just making their debut, and has included…
Hammers On Bone by Cassandra Khaw
Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter medium. The line includes both established authors and those just making their debut, and has included…
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,…
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…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Known Title, Unknown Story
The name of the short story must be that of a fantasy bestseller but the story isn’t allowed to have anything to do with the original book. So if your…