The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once. The Binary System Podcast team (with special guest Hannah Wallace) has already talked at length about the Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House” here, so for
I twisted myself about like the twisted ones… The timing couldn’t have been better. On the same week that North Carolina finally gets some real fall weather (ie: the temperature dropped below 90 degrees), NC resident T. Kingfisher (also know as Ursula Vernon) released a brand new book, The Twisted Ones. This is her first
“Time is a ring. Everything and everyone gets squished under the wheel.” Today’s the first day of October, time for another month of Spooky Book Reviews! The rules are simple: while sticking as close as possible to the horror genre, over the course of the month I have to review at least one new book,
Burn before reading. The West Coast branch of Binary System Podcast usually gets dibs on any new Gladstone book. However, Elizabeth’s in the process of reviewing The Empress of Forever this time, so his latest one is mine, all mine, Mwaa haa haa haa! Ahem. Anyway, Max Gladstone
I first stumbled across Caitlín R. Kiernan in a 2005 collection of satisfyingly nasty short stories (Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge, now out of print), and she keeps cropping up in different collections – most recently in one I reviewed in 2017. This year Tachyon Publications has released a book collecting Kiernan’s best
I read Natasha Pulley’s first novel back in 2015 during a big family vacation, so I thought it would be appropriate to catch up on her second novel while on this year’s family vacation. (I had a nice surprise when I went to buy the book and found out that I’d already bought a copy a couple
The San Diego Union-Tribune had their third Festival of Books this year, and I had to stop by to get pictures of crowds, books, booths, and more! (Including all the dog attendees I could find, because who doesn’t want to stop and say hi to the dogs?)
Someone had to bring back the rains, and apparently it was going to have to be him. All towns have a little magic somewhere, but the luckiest ones have their own mage. A mage is handy to have around to deal with small problems like poison ivy, or gremlins in the mill. It’s been years
“You will need all your wits, Desdemona Mannering, all your scimitar wiles, to bargain with Kalos Kantzaros in Breakers Beyond.” C.S.E. Cooney (author of The Bone Swans: Stories) returns with a brand new stand-alone novella, Desdemona and the Deep, set in the same world from her Dark Breakers series.