A SOLEMN CURFFEW AND OTHER DARK TALES by Bev Allen from Cathaven Press #BookReview #Horror #ShortStory #Anthology A SOLEMN CURFFEW AND OTHER DARK TALES by Bev Allen Cathaven Press, 178 page p/b, £7.95 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Not all horror is the same. There is the violent, gory version in… Read More »A Solemn Curfew
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Horror Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones Titan Books, pb, £9.19 Reviewed by John Dodd In advance, I hadn’t read My Heart is a Chainsaw, so I came at this cold, as cold as all the bodies… Read More »Don’t Fear the Reaper
Join Becky James, Josh Winning, Eliza Chan and Patricia A Jackson at 1:45pm on Saturday as they talk about Fantasy Set in the Modern Era and how to approach incorporating fantasy and technology. Tickets can be booked here and are free for members and £5 for everyone else. Becky James is the… Read More »The Fabric of Fantasy – Fantasy in the Modern Era
Join us this Saturday as we look at some elements which make up the Fabric of Fantasy. Our first panel of the day will be asking Is Violence a Necessary Part of Fantasy? Peter Newman, Gabriela Houston, Lee C Conley, and Anna Stephens will be discussing their takes on this,… Read More »The Fabric of Fantasy – Is Violence a Necessary Part of Fantasy?
This weekend’s online event is all around the fabric of genre fiction – what are the layers of good fantasy fiction? Our third panel of the day will be ‘Sex, love and Rock and Roll: Developing a Unique Culture’ and our three guests will be talking about how they approach… Read More »The Fabric of Fantasy – Developing a Unique Culture
We are absolutely thrilled to be interviewing the supremely talented Priya Sharma as part of our Fabric of Fantasy event on Saturday 13th May. Tickets for the event are free for members and £5 for everyone else and can be booked here. Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared in venues such… Read More »Interview with Priya Sharma
WAYWARD by Chuck Wendig from Del Ray #BookReview #dystopian #horror #thriller WAYWARD by Chuck Wendig Del Rey, Hardback, £22 Reviewed by Stephen Frame Wayward is the sequel to Wanderers, Chuck Wendig’s novel about a world-ending pandemic. Like Wanderers, Wayward is part techno-thriller, part dystopian SF, and part horror story, told… Read More »
The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz from Thomas and Mercer #BookReview #horror #thriller The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz Thomas and Mercer, hb, £19.99 Reviewed by Ian Hunter In many ways, this is my sort of book, given my self-confessed… Read More »The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz
And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky from Rebellion Publishing #BookReview #fantasy #horror And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky Rebellion Publishing, ebook, £7.49, Available for pre-order Reviewed by Nadya Mercik The third book in Terrible Worlds: Destinations series, this novella continues to explore unusual places and once… Read More »And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
GHOSTS By GX Todd from @headlinepg #BookReview #Horror GHOSTS By GX Todd Headline Publishing Group, h/b, £20.00 Reviewed by Matthew Johns The conclusion to GX Todd’s Voices quadrilogy returns to the post-apocalyptic world that she had so artfully crafted in the three previous books. Seven years before, people all around… Read More »GHOSTS By GX Todd