Tabletop Tuesday: It was the Dead of Winter…
Geoff Matthews
I could see them. Even in the growing dark, I could see them. Flickers of flame from the fire threw their shadows against walls of peeling paint. Stupid. Really stupid.…
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Interview with Alison Littlewood
Overlord
I first heard of Alison Littlewood back in 2012 when one of her Editors, Jo Fletcher, was proudly telling me that her debut novel – A Cold Season – had…
Elements of Fantasy: Zombies
Janie Bill
The living dead. Zombies made their first documented appearance in 1929 when William Seabrook recorded his participation with Haitian voodoo ceremonies in The Magic Island. Seabrook had been interested in…
Keeping the Little Things Undead
David Towsey
We are all familiar with ‘zombies’, right? Senseless, decaying and yet animated corpses that eat juicy live brains’ – as seen in AMC’s The Walking Dead. Well, that’s certainly a…
Eleri Stone Interview
Dan Hanks
A couple of months ago I reviewed the excellent Reaper’s Touch by Eleri Stone. It was a cracking read, with a brilliant couple of protagonists, and while this follow-up interview…
The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey
A. E. Marling
If you’ve always wanted your zombie hordes flavored with fungus, then The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey was written for you. Those who devour science articles will…
Monthly Short Story Winner: The Deep
Jennie Ivins
In this month’s short story contest, participants wrote us stories about ‘the deep’. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at the winner, here is the…
The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Set in the Clockwork Century universe where there are zombies, diesel and steam powered war machines, and mad scientists aplenty running around through the United States, Rector has gotten old…
Manipulating the Mythos
Rachel Riegel
There is an ongoing argument among fantasy lovers as to whether or not you can take a long-standing myth and manipulate it into something different. We all know that things…
Jenny Romanchuk Interview
ChrisMB
After I had put up my review of Jenny Romanchuk’s webcomic, The Zombie Hunters, I had gotten in touch with the artist and writer to discuss the creation of her…
Ganymede by Cherie Priest
In Ganymede, Cherie Priest continues to explore an alternate universe, war torn US in the late nineteenth century. After reading and thoroughly enjoying Boneshaker and Dreadnought (and then hunting down…
Mark Tufo Interview
Month of the Living Dead (aka October) featured two novels by independent novelist Mark Tufo – a former Marine turned regular working man who took his life experiences, a few…