Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire Tor.com Release Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8550-5 I’m just going to come out and say it: this little book is pert’ near perfect. You’ve heard the tales, of fairy abductions and changelings, of witches’ tricks and those children who simply disappeared, never to […]
Envy of Angels Matt Wallace Tor.com Release Date: October 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-8528-4 What a strange, perverse, hilarious and utterly entertaining little book this is! Sin du Jour is a private catering and events company based in Long Island City. Run by Chef Byron “Bronko” Luck, a former purveyor of […]
Shadowman: Follow Me Boy (Kindle Worlds Novella) Delilah S. Dawson Amazon Digital Services, Inc. ASIN: B00DET5KYK An old street woman gives Alyssa Myles, Jack Boniface’s friend (and Shadowman’s abettor!) a vial of perfume called Follow Me Boy. Alyssa brings the mysterious potion with her to the museum for dinner […]
The Tent Kealan Patrick Burke Amazon Digital Services Publication Date: April 20, 2013 Kealan Patrick Burke is a winner of the Bram Stoker Prize (awarded by the Horror Writer’s Association) and has been called “One of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror” by Booklist. But with Horror […]
Six-Gun Snow White Catherynne M. Valente Subterranean Press First Edition: February 28, 2013 ISBN 978-1-59606-552-9 The Brothers Grimm never saw this one coming. Author Catherynne M. Valente has taken the age old fairy tale of Snow White, infused it with images and archetypes of the Old West and threaded it […]
The New Hunger Isaac Marion Zola Books ISBN13 – 9781939126047 —♦— Not to sound like a hipster, but I dug zombies long before they were cool. The first zombie flick I saw was Dawn of the Dead, the George Romero classic, followed by the sequel Day of the Dead, featuring […]
The Pretty Girl: Novella and Stories Debra Spark Four Way ISBN-10: 1935536184 — ♦ — A painting can be a mirror or a window, the art historical theory goes, but in Debra Spark’s fourth and newest work of fiction, it is more likely to be a puzzle. Art is a […]
Meat is All Andrew Borgstrom NEPHEW- an imprint of Mudluscious Press ▬ᴥ▬ The life of a scout is about the pursuit of individual accomplishment, shrouded in the brown shorts and sash of conformity. Much like a soldier, the only way for a scout to stand apart from his peers is […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.