Noticias Literatura 29-10
The 25th Anniversary of the Alberto Magno Award for Science Fiction.
Book Review: Tell My Sorrows to the Stones
It’s week five of Six Weeks of Scares. This time out, our subject is a single author collection, namely Tell My Sorrows to the Stones by Christopher Golden. Golden’s work has been highly acclaimed and in horror circles he’s well respected. This book contains a dozen reasons why that’s the case. Golden’s work is of the quiet school of horror, much like that of the late Charles L. Grant. The selections presented here have a wide range of tone and subject matter.
Book Review — A Spooky Tale in Time for Halloween!
Christopher Rice is the son of best-selling fantasy writer Ann Rice, whose tales of vampires in the Deep South sparked a renewed interest in the genre. His new book (from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster) arrived on October 15, and I have to say that, despite a few weaknesses, I enjoyed it more than some of his mother’s works.
Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Imaginings Volume: 6 – Feast and Famine is a collection of ten short stories by the British writer Adrian Tchaikovsky, best known for the nine-volume (and counting) fantasy series, Shadows of the Apt, published by Tor.
Things for Halloween
Warm up your cauldrons, grab your grimoires, and ready the goats for sacrificing; it’s that time of the year, again. And to put you in the spirit for All Hallows Eve, I’ve compiled this list of some of my favorite scary / Halloween themed things.
Book Review: “The Halloween Phantoms”
Last year Cemetery Dance published a series of short story ebooks with the theme of Halloween. I bought all of them, but I wasn’t able to read them all. I could have, but I decided to save a few for this year. So for the fourth week of Six Weeks of Scares, I’m looking at The Halloween Phantoms.
Noticias Literatura 8-10
Avance del nuevo título de “Espiral Ciencia-Ficción” “Espiral CF” anuncia que ya tiene el próximo libro en la imprenta. Estará compuesto por las novelas “Zaibatsu” de Diana P. Morales y “La edad del vuelo” de Alberto Moreno […]
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part III: The Titilating Terror of Junji Ito
[Note: The following post contains some images that are visually disturbing. It is recommended that the reader use caution.] Do you like your comics with heavy inking? With a bit of body horror? With gruesome […]
Book Review: Sever, Slice, and Stab by Ty Johnston
Sever, Slice, and Stab Ty Johnston trade paper $9.99 ebook $2.99 Kindle, Nook, Apple, Sony, Kobo, Smashwords The selection for this, the third week of Six Weeks of Scares, is a collection of horror tales […]
Scide Splitters: Unidentified Funny Objects 2 edited by Alex Shvartsman
If done well, an anthology is like a box of chocolates filled with a variety of delectable confections. Granted, there are bound to be a few flavors you are not partial to, but on the whole, the selection is delightful. When not done so well, you end up with something a little more like Monty Python’s Whizzo Chocolates, getting a mouthful of Crunchy Frog or Cockroach Cluster….
Book Review: Dr. Sleep. Does Every Book Really Need a Sequel?
Does Dr. Sleep stack up against The Shining?
Book Review: “Bad Sanctuary”
The weird western is alive and well. Or should that be undead and well? No matter, this subgenre seems to be enjoying a surge in popularity. After reading “Bad Sanctuary”, it’s easy to see why.
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part I: Vampires
Autumn in New England serves to transport me immediately into a Halloween world – where one finds Vampires. In Anime!
Review: “The Walker Place”
This is a creepy Halloween tale that isn’t for the faint of heart. If you are uncomfortable with stories in which children are threatened (or worse) with bodily harm, then you might want to give this one a pass
Review – Searching for Ray Bradbury by Steven Paul Leiva
A loving tribute to the memory of one of the most important figures both in the history of our genres and in American popular culture and the literature of the 20th century.
Thin Men with Yellow Faces: NOT a Dark Tower tie-in!
There are two broad strains of horror fiction. One assumes that the world is falling apart, and depicts that process. The other assumes that the world is eternal, and depicts it falling apart.
When Science Fiction is Not Science Fiction
s\Some writers who might have started off in science fiction soon reveal their true selves when they start publishing what they really want to write about.
“Nine Horrors and a Dream” by Joseph Payne Brennan
What I enjoy so much about these stories is Mr. Brennan’s economy of word, sense of place and strong mood
Review: Ghosts and Ruins, by Ben Catmull
In recent years, a uniform aesthetic has come to characterize visual horror: Ben Catmull’s new collection of short haunted house and ghost stories, reminds us forcefully of just how powerful other visions of horror can be.
Doctor Sleep – Stephen King’s Sequel to The Shining
It has been thirty-six years since The Shining scared the bejesus out of most of the population and King has not disappointed this reader with his latest.
Review: After Death edited by Eric J. Guignard
It is part of the human condition to wonder what happens to us after we die.
BERNHARDT J. HURWOOD, an unsung Hero of my Childhood.
Poe was too dry and Lovecraft was too trippy for my 10 year old soul, but Mr. Hurwood hit the spot, scratched the itch, tripped my trigger and blew my gaskets!
Review – Falling Over by James Everington
Falling Over is a book about perception, about characters who come to doubt their sense of the reality of the world, whose perceptions are doubled, who extrapolate alternative realities or timelines or encounter, or imagine they encounter, doppelgängers.
A Review of Mad Shadows
Mad Shadows: The Weird Tales of Dorgo the Dowser Joe Bonadonna iUniverse trade paper $19.95 ebook $4.99 Kindle Nook When I first came across this book, the title made me think it might be something […]
A conversation with the Hall of Fame illustrator Murray Tinkelman
This past February I had the great pleasure of speaking with Mr. Murray Tinkelman, the famous and award winning illustrator. This came about by my wanting to do something different for once in the blog. […]
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