Category Archives: Books

Christopher Golden’s The Secret Backs of Things

Carpet sharks. The Wild Hunt. Human skin framed as a canvas in a painting. Really old Scottish manors with very odd monsters. The Norns. Hellboy. And that’s but a sampling of the things that are to be found in this … Continue reading

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T. H. White’s The Once and Future King 

Rebecca Swain penned this review. This classic work is a must for anyone interested in Arthurian legend. White has taken Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and retold it in modern language, in a novel that adults and young people can read over and … Continue reading

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What’s New for the 11th of September: Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory, an Oysterband retrospective collection, contemporary Estonian music, a Swedish porridge restaurant, a Tam Lin novel, card catalogues and other matters…

I can remember the title, author, and location of every book in this library, Matthew. Every book that’s ever been dreamed. Every book that’s ever been imagined. Every book that’s ever been lost. Millions upon millions of them. That’s what … Continue reading

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J.R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec’s Gaslight  Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes

Here we have an anthology of eleven stories by diverse hands set in Sherlock Holmes’ universe. As the subtitle implies, however, there are more fantastic creatures roaming around in this particular universe than ever Holmes encountered in the days when … Continue reading

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Patricia A. McKillip’s Dreams of Distant Shores

With Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip delivers something that is not quite your typical short story collection. While the point of entry is a series of shorter pieces, the collection builds to and is anchored by the lengthy … Continue reading

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A. A. Milne’s The Red House Mystery

In the early years of the twentieth century, A. A. Milne was a well-known writer of plays as well as humorous essays and poems. The Red House Mystery, published shortly before he became world-famous as the creator of Christopher Robin … Continue reading

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Lauren Beukes’ Slipping

The key to Lauren Beukes’ fiction can be found in the non-fiction short pieces at the back end of her new collection, Slipping: Stories, Essays and Other Writing. Beukes’ background is in journalism, and these shorts – some of them … Continue reading

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Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s The Wolves in the Walls 

Rachel Manija Brown penned this review. Lucy is sure there are wolves in the walls. She can hear them at night, prowling and carousing. So she tells her mother. “‘I’m sure it’s not wolves,’ said her mother. ‘For you know what … Continue reading

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John L. Lansdale’s Zombie Gold

The blurb on the back cover of John L. Lansdale’s Zombie Gold comes from a movie personality, and it’s easy to see why. Stripped to its bare bones, this story of a couple of well-meaning Pennsylvania cowboys – Will and … Continue reading

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Wendy Froud and Terri Windling’s The Faeries of Spring Cottage 

Matthew Scott Winslow penned this review. Regular readers of Green Man Review probably have already figured out, simply by the authors listed above, that we have before us yet another adventure of Sneezlewort Rootmuster Rowanberry Boggs the Seventh (known as Sneezle for short), tree … Continue reading

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