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
I just wanted to do a quick review of C.J. Cherryh’s Resurgence, just because three books ago I said I wouldn’t review any more of her Foreigner novels; I didn’t want to keep bagging on them, how tedious I thought they’d gotten, how much exposition was crammed in them, and how there were just too many
I set your shoes on fire. I finally got around to reading the latest Night Vale novel and whoo boy. This one, wow, this one stands out from all the previous novels, and even from the source material in the podcast. The book we have here takes a shadowy and occasionally whimsical character and