When I first flipped through The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black from Quirk Books I assumed it was just one of those pretty picture books like Dragonology or Wizardology: lots of full page illustrations, light on story and heavy on artwork. It’s actually much, much darker than that.
…something happened… A lot of Stephen King’s older works revolve around younger (or at least simpler) themes: little boy versus the haunted hotel, aliens from outer space, teenagers fighting a demon-possessed car. His more recent books seem to be taking a gloomier tone, and involve a
The last book I read for 2014 technically came out in 2012, but it wasn’t published in the United States until last year. Ambelin Kwaymullina’s first novel has a great mix of science-fiction and fantasy, and I loved the premise of a world coming back after mankind almost destroyed it. Unfortunately the story ends up
Happy New Year, book readers! As you probably already know, there’s not nearly enough time to read all the amazing books that came out last year. Between the two of us, though, we tried to get as big a sampling as we could. Here’s each of our picks for our three favorite science-fiction/fantasy books of
A very Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it from Kathryn and Elizabeth! And to everybody who doesn’t celebrate it, happy book-reading! By this point most people have already read A Christmas Carol, or The Night Before Christmas, or any of a handful of great, classic Christmas stories. So we thought we’d list a few
…Sairu stood a long moment in silence. Then she said, “I do not believe in dragons.” “It’s time you started,” said the cat. If you’ve been reading Anne Elisabeth Stengl’s series Tales of Goldstone Wood you’ll already be familiar with the fantasy world she’s created, filled with dragons, unicorns, fairies, reluctant princes and benevolent goddesses. Each
All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. The book opens with the death of an actor on stage: heart attack, completely unrelated to the epidemic of flu which
I’m still trying to read a few more 2014 books before the end of the year, and next up is Edgar Cantero’s The Supernatural Enhancements. In short, I loved it, even though I had one good reason not to. It’s part mystery, part puzzle, part supernatural (of course) thriller, part horror, and humor. The whole
1989 saw the release of Batman titles like Legends of the Dark Knight, a comic book adaptation of Tim Burton’s film, and a very pretty Elseworlds one-shot, Gotham by Gaslight. It also saw the publication of the graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, a story that takes the regular comic book format and the hard-boiled detective image of Batman, and