New Fears– Various (Titan Books)
Just in time for the Samhain festivities, comes this collection of short stories from Titan Books. Bringing together some of the genre’s finest and upcoming stars New Fears is not just a bunch of horror…
Just in time for the Samhain festivities, comes this collection of short stories from Titan Books. Bringing together some of the genre’s finest and upcoming stars New Fears is not just a bunch of horror…
When writing my own books, not reviewing those written by others, I try to bring home what it says on the tin – unpretentious entertainment. Well, okay, it doesn’t actually say unpretentious entertainment, and between you and…
Themed short story collections are everywhere, aren’t they? Traditional publishers’ shelf space, both physical and digital, squeezed in a pincer movement from burgeoning small press titles and the rise of charity compilations more professional and…
“The startled Matabele reeled, screaming in pain, as the crude spade sheared through the flesh of his face to the bone.” Brutal stuff indeed, and I bet you’re thinking it’s Tarzan wielding that spade, right?…
I am, I will freely admit, a hopeless devotee of first contact fiction and the post-realisation and interaction scenarios that make up the majority of the plots that are part of its tried, tested and…
Hekla’s Children wasn’t a book I fancied reviewing. When it arrived with a couple of others, I quickly scanned its blurb and equally quickly relegated it to the bottom of the pile. Not a big fan…
There’s a knack to writing tie-in novels – and I’ve written a few – that has little to do with how well you can write and everything to do with how well you can listen….
Relics comes festooned with an array of pull quotes along the lines of ‘magical, perilous drama’ and ‘darkly beautiful glimpse into another world’, but, while entertaining enough, it left me a little unmoved, I’m afraid. There’s…
I must be honest. Other than for once reading the early Dark Horse comics, I’ve never really dipped my toes into the extended Alien universe – which is to say, the books – beyond flicking through them…
For those of you who have never read a Modesty Blaise novel I urge you to get out there and do so now; to my mind, they are what the James Bond novels would have…
I’d only ever heard of author Mark Morris through his Doctor Who and Torchwood novels and whilst I enjoyed those, I never sought out any more of his work. Clearly I was missing a trick…
Good morning, Angels! Good morning, Erik! Yep, Kim Newman’s Angels of Music really does deliver what it says on the tin, a trio of female investigators, each with unique talents, working for the 19th century…