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Joshua Dysart, Enrique Breccia and Timothy Green II’s Swamp Thing: Love in Vain

With Love in Vain, Joshua Dysart took over the reins of Swamp Thing from the rather more erratic storytelling of Andy Diggle, and the difference is obvious. What Dysart has to work with is an extended continuity that’s mostly been … Continue reading

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Robin McKinley’s Sunshine

Robin McKinley is well known for her wonderful re-tellings of fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast and Rose Daughter), “Donkeyskin” (Deerskin) and “Sleeping Beauty” (Spindle’s End), as … Continue reading

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Karl Wagner’s Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane

Long, long ago, in a world far more uptight about hem lines and shirt collars than we are today, Karl Wagner’s Kane joined the ranks of timeless heroes Conan and Fafhrd on the printed page. Fans of Robert E. Howard … Continue reading

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James Lee Burke’s Last Car to Elysian Fields

David Kidney, in his review of the previous novel in this series, Purple Cane Road, noted: ‘Dave Robicheaux is a middle-aged guy, trying to get along. Still haunted by his experiences in Viet Nam, troubled by his relationship with his … Continue reading

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Jennifer Armintrout’s Blood Ties, Book One: The Turning

With its cumbersome title and dependence on vampire clichés, this paranormal romance offers very little in the way of original, engaging story. From a turgid and silly beginning, it improves toward the end, but once the last page is turned, … Continue reading

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Bernard Rose’s Paperhouse

Craig Clarke wrote this review. This film from director Bernard Rose (who would later helm Candyman and Immortal Beloved) is a delightfully scary look at the blending of dreams and reality. Anna (Charlotte Burke) is an eleven-year-old girl who enjoys … Continue reading

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Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a short horror novella dealing with the classic setup where a group of friends go to a haunted house. It is an old storytelling tool, but one that has proven effective time and … Continue reading

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Reynold Humphries’ The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, and Steffen Hantke, editor’s Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945

Kestrell Rath wrote this review. There is a growing body of high-quality critical writing about the horror film, both classic and contemporary, and part of this criticism has begun to address the ongoing dichotomy between the often confused and disparaging … Continue reading

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F. Paul Wilson’s The Haunted Air

As I said in my omnibus look at the previous volumes in this series, ‘Sometimes why we review something here at Green Man is as interesting as what we review. I honestly had not planned on reviewing this series, as … Continue reading

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Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream

Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream is an anthology that also serves as a love letter to the Deamlands stories of H.P. Lovecraft and others. Filled with carefully chosen stories themed after dreams and a … Continue reading

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