It’s been a pretty chaotic year, what with family medical emergencies and other craziness (said other craziness being…more family medical emergencies), so I’m pretty happy to see the last of 2019. I don’t usually quote myself in these reviews, but for crying out loud, that comment from the end of 2019 is just too ironic
2021 is almost here, time for one more book from 2020! This week we’ll take a look at T. Kingfisher’s A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. The city of Riverbraid has always been fairly nice for wizards. Not everyone is okay with magic, so in other towns Mona might have had to deal with registration,
I have climbed up to the Upper Halls where Clouds move in slow procession and Statues appear suddenly out of the Mists. I have explored the Drowned Halls where the Dark Waters are carpeted with white water lilies. I have seen the Derelict Halls of the East where Ceilings, Floors – sometimes even Walls! –
…It isn’t the failure to communicate that fascinates me; it’s the implication that these ETIs appear to have no interest in communication at all. And we humans, vain, egotistical creatures that we are, can’t help but take that a little personally… I’ve still got a few more weeks to add to my list of possible
I need one more book to review for my Spooky Books month. Oo, 23 stories and poems by Mike Allen, in a collection that includes weird fiction, high fantasy, and body-horror? Thanks, don’t mind if I do! Click the jump for a review of Aftermath of an Industrial Accident. It would be nice to include
I put out a call on Facebook for classic horror books to review, and I ended up picking two short stories: Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan”. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that
On the left-hand wall, in letters eighteen inches high, someone had scratched: They Can Hear You Thinking T. Kingfisher, author of delightful and award-winning fantasy/sci-fi stories, returns to the horror genre this month with her latest novel, The Hollow Places. The Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities, and Taxidermy in the little town
Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever. It’s time for the annual Spooky Books month! The entire month of October will be devoted to reviews of scary reads: new horror, classic horror, and at least one book that’s been out for a while but I haven’t read
If you do not learn the things I have to teach you. If you do not help. The time will come and you will fail, and this city will join Pompeii and Atlantis and a dozen others whose names no one remembers, even though hundreds of thousands of people died with them. N.K. Jemisin’s short