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Tag Archives: horror
Toby Barlow’s Sharp Teeth
I’ve had one previous experience with fantasy in verse (well, unless one counts the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the like), and it wasn’t a happy one. Nevertheless, when Toby Barlow’s Sharp Teeth crossed my desk, I screwed my courage to … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, poetry
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Christophe Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups)
I hardly know where to start with Christophe Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups) – it’s sort of outside my normal range of subject matter, but the DVD case looked interesting enough, and the price was right, … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged action and adventure, historical fiction, horror
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Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s Brain Camp
I think the best description I’ve seen of Brain Camp, written by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan, drawn by Faith Erin Hicks, is “creepy.” Camp Fielding is a parent’s dream: a summer camp dedicated to taking your young loser and … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged horror
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Simon Oliver’s Hellblazer, Vol. 1: The Poison Truth
John Constantine is back in London, after suffering exile in New York — the result of a curse by a demon that caused remaining in London to infect Constantine with a possibly fatal disease. But, as usual, Constantine has found … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, graphic novels, horror
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Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula
The historical Vlad III, the Impaler, whose story this book purports to tell, was a voivode — “prince” — of Wallachia in the later fifteenth century. He is known mainly for his policy of independence from the Ottoman Empire, of … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, horror
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Peter Milligan’s John Constantine: Hellblazer India
I’ve read the entire three hundred issue run of Hellblazer in trade editions save some in the middle of the run that Vertigo, a unit of DC Comics, from reasons not terribly clear to anyone was not released in that … Continue reading
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Tagged Hellblazer, horror
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Mike Mignola and John Bryne’s Hellboy: The Library Edition, Volume One
The volumes in this format, six as I write this look at the first one, look larger than they actually as they’re nine inches by twelve inches. The covers are black matte finish with gold lettering on them. Rather classy … Continue reading
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Tagged Hellboy, horror, Mike Mignola
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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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Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, horror
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Patricia Anthony’s Flanders
Jayme Lynn Blaschke penned this review. There are few things more depressing in life than to see brilliance punished. The fact that it happens with disturbing regularity makes it no less palatable, and when it happens to a writer as overwhelmingly … Continue reading
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s The Thread That Binds The Bones and The Silent Strength of Stones
In The Thread That Binds The Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman introduces Tom Renfield, an odd young man who can see ghosts and who discovers in a time of crisis that he can even perform feats of magic. He flees the notoriety … Continue reading