"It will begin in the heavens and end in the Earth" Signalz is the newest addition to the Adversary cycle. It can be read as a stand-alone novel but is a prequel to Nightworld, the sixth book of the series. I really enjoyed this book, which falls into the horror and dark fantasy genre. Its… Continue reading Signalz by F Paul Wilson
Out of Body by Jeffrey Ford
Out of Body By Jeffery Ford. Published May, 2020 by Tor Publishing Out of Body is a solid, fast-paced tale that delivers an imaginative and satisfying piece of dark fantasy with a sprinkling of horror. It’s a quick read at 176 pages. The protagonist is a small-town librarian named Owen whose quiet, lonely life quickly… Continue reading Out of Body by Jeffrey Ford
Borne
“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.” -Jeff Vandermeer, Borne The Southern Reach trilogy was weird and cosmic. Borne is weird and quite humanistic. It is a post-apocalyptic story about a scavenger named Rachel who finds a biotech creature. that resembles a sea anemone. She names… Continue reading Borne
Title: Subject 11 Author: Jeffery Thomas Date published: 2014 Category: weird fiction, horror What if the Jersey Shore/reality tv met the Stanford prison experiment and had a deformed mutant baby? The result would be Subject 11. Ten subjects are recruited for a mysterious test in which they have to live in an abandoned building. An… Continue reading
Smoke and Dagger
Title: Smoke and Dagger: A Spectra Files Prequel Author: Douglas Wynne Format: audiobook Narrator: Matthew Cohn Date Published: 11-7-2019 Category: weird fiction, small press,Lovecraftian, horror, audiobook Smoke and Dagger: A SPECTRA Files Prequel by Douglas Wynne and narrated by Matthew Cohn is 4 hours and twenty minutes of pulp Cthulhu Mythos action. Matthew Cohn is an NYC actor… Continue reading Smoke and Dagger
Color out of Space (2020)
Title: Color out of Space Director: Richard Stanley Writers: Scarlett Amaris, Richard Stanley, HP Lovecraft Distributed by: RLJE Films American Release Date: 1/24/2020 Category: Lovecraftian movies I’m a little skeptical about Lovecraftian movie adaptations. I think weird fiction is challenging to bring to the screen, although it has been done satisfactorily on a few… Continue reading Color out of Space (2020)
Red Equinox Audible Review
Red Equinox has received praise as a must-read for Lovecraft fans; and it is! Now you have a chance to listen to it, too. Even though I have already read this book, I was excited to listen to the audio-book. I really enjoyed revisiting the characters in this story, and reading the book beforehand only… Continue reading Red Equinox Audible Review
Book review: Sing Me Your Scars
Title: Sing Me Your Scars Author: Damien Angelica Walters Publisher: Apex Publications Date Published: 2015 Category: weird fiction, small press, female authors, short stories, horror I haven’t felt this way about a collection of short stories since I read Thomas Ligotti’s Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Walters’s collection of short stories is haunting, creepy, and… Continue reading Book review: Sing Me Your Scars
Book Review: The Antarctic Express
Title: The Antarctic Express Author: Kenneth Hite & Christina Rodriguez Publisher: Trident Inc., : Atlas Games Date Published: 2009 Category: parody, Lovecraftian, children’s The Antarctic Express is a children’s parody book combining the Polar Express with the Mountains of Madness. I have mixed feelings about these kinds of parodies, generally aimed at adults who think… Continue reading Book Review: The Antarctic Express
Book review: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
Lovecraft states in Supernatural Horror in Literature, “The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights in cosmic fear in spite of uneven interest and a somewhat trivial and affected cultivation of the Gallic studio atmosphere made popular by Du Maurier’s Trilby."
The Dunwich Review 