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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mama Kin
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Handfasting (A Letter to Katrina)
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- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
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Tag Archives: horror
Tim Pratt’s Sympathy For The Devil
Pleased to mee-choo. Yeah, I said it. And no, this isn’t a collection of stories about The Rolling Stones, try again. Yep, it’s all Lucifer, all the time in this collection. Editor Tim Pratt collects some of his favorite stories … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, short fiction
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Nancy Kilpatrick and Thomas Roche’s In The Shadow of the Gargoyle
I’m reviewing In The Shadow of the Gargoyle largely because the Spring 2001 Berkeley Publishing Group catalog which arrived recently had a listing for a novel by Katherine Kurtz called St. Patrick’s Gargoyle. What’s the connection, you ask? Simple — … Continue reading
Simon R. Green’s Shadows Fall
Somewhere off the beaten path of society and civilization, there lies the mysterious town of Shadows Fall. The elephants’ graveyard of the imagination, it’s where gods and heroes, legends and monsters, myths and childhood companions all go when their time … Continue reading
Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Baltimore: or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
In the darkest days of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore, then a Captain in the English Army, watches his men fall in battle. Himself injured, he barely fights off a nocturnal predator, and in doing so, unleashes the unholy … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, horror
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and its sequels, prequels and remakes: Psycho II, Psycho III, Bates Motel, Psycho IV: The Beginning, and Psycho
Psycho, the 1960 film by Alfred Hitchcock from the novel by Robert Bloch (which was in turn based on the life of Ed Gein, also the inspiration for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs), is such … Continue reading
John Clute’s The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror
Ahhhh, come in. Let me set aside Catherynne M. Valente’s new novel The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden – lovely take on The Arabian Nights motif with elements of fantasy and horror in it. What’s that on my desk? … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, reference works
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Danny Boyle’x 28 Days Later
Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. It takes less than a second for a person’s life to hit free-fall, the point at which death is imminent and inevitable. A dropped CD distracting you from the freeway ahead, a step forward … Continue reading
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifth Annual Collection
Joselle Vandershoot wrote this review. Since the first Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology was released in 1988, the series has been a touchstone for remarkable and ground-breaking genre writing from around the world, and the series’ fifth edition (covering … Continue reading
John Langan’s Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
John Langan’s Corpsemouth and Other Autobigraphies is a collection of short stories ranging from the weird to the horrific and on to the just plain odd. With both llengthier and briefer examples, this collection will likely chill. “Kore” starts as … Continue reading
Al Sarrantonio’s Halloween and Other Seasons, Matt Warner’s Horror Isn’t a Four-Letter Word, and H. P. Lovecraft and S. T. Joshi’s The Annotated Supernatural Horror In Literature
Halloween and Other Seasons collects eighteen stories previously published in such venues as Cemetery Dance Magazine, Asimov’s, and (one of my favorite horror anthologies from last year) Midnight Premiere. While Sarrantonio’s stories range in style from science fiction Westerns to … Continue reading