End of Watch – Stephen King (Hodder)
All about the fish. End of Watch marks the culmination of the trilogy that began with Mr Mercedes and continued with Finders Keepers. At the novel’s outset, Brady Hartsfield is still hospitalised, and still in…
Book Reviews
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? – Paul Cornell (Tor UK)
Who’s murdering ghosts? Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? is the third novel in Paul Cornell’s ‘Shadow Police’ series, following on from the events in London’s Falling and The Severed Streets. Someone has killed the ghost of…
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Wearing Kathe Koja’s Skin
The old library in my teen hometown, Maldon, was a dingy old church filled with rickety shelves carrying half a tonne of random old books. For someone as insatiable and broke as me, it was…
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The Final Cut – Jasper Bark (Crystal Lake Publishing)
What would happen if Clive Barker was inspired to write a book after watching John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns? Well, I think Jasper Bark has nailed the answer to that question with The Final Cut. When…
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Run to Ground – Jasper Bark (Crystal Lake Publishing)
I’m not sure if it should be categorized as ego or genius but Jasper Bark is in the process of creating his own mythos. Full of horrendous monsters and gory death scenes, his work would…
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Manor Threat (Snakepit Comics 2013-2015) – Ben Snakepit (Microcosm Publishing)
After a few niche releases, Microcosm gets back in the game with the latest instalment of Ben Snakepit’s daily diary comics. Charting three years in Snakepit’s life in which he turns 40, moves house and…
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Dracula
Dracula – Starring Mark Gatiss, Joseph Kloska, Deirdre Mullins, Rupert Young, Nigel Betts, David Menkin, Alex Jordan, Elizabeth Morton, Rosanna Miles, Ian Hallard, Edward Petherbridge & Katy Manning. Written by Bram Stoker & Dramatised by…
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Lemmy Kilmister : Life Beyond Motorhead : Collateral Damage – Alan Burridge (Iron Pages Books)
It would be easy to assume this is a cash-in on Lemmy’s death; however Burridge who runs the Motorheadbangers fanzine, began this project a long time before the great man’s demise, and with over 40…
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In remembrance of Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke had a vision of the DC Universe that was uniquely his own, yet embraced by everyone. Once you saw his timeless designs and concepts for Batman, Catwoman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern or…
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Doctor Who: In the Blood – Jenny T. Colgan (BBC Books)
With the increasing pace of life in the digital age, we’ve almost forgotten that we are, at our core, a tribal species, one that thrives on social interaction. The further we sink into the lonely…
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My Life in Books – Joseph D\’Lacey
When I was about ten, I gave up on Mallory Towers and got into The Rats. The idea that my own child might open a similar book at that age makes me shudder. And yet,…
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A Time of Torment – John Connolly (Hodder)
Charlie Parker is back, and he’s on a mission. A Time of Torment marks the fourteenth novel featuring detective Charlie Parker. Now recovered after the events detailed in the previous two novels in the series…
