A look At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is, perhaps more then or at least alongside The Call of Cthulhu (and maybe The Shadow Over Innsmouth), H. P. Lovecraft’s magnum opus. At the Mountains of Madness is narrated by William Dyer, a geologist who is penning the story as warning for an expedition to the Antarctic; an expedition [...]

Review: Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Locke and Key Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft Words by Joe Hill Art by Gabriel Rodriguez IDW, 2008 As we move into the last week of October I’m be spending the remainder of my time exploring some Lovecraft and Lovecraft influenced fiction.  While not quite Lovecraftian in tone and theme Hill & Rodriguez’s series Locke [...]

Review: The Revenant Road by Michael Boatman

The Revenant Road Michael Boatman Drollerie Press, 2009 Names are important to me.  Especially names in fiction.  I’m of the opinion that you can tell a lot about a fictional character on name alone and that a bad name can ruin a good a character.  So when I came across the name Obadiah Grudge a [...]

Review: Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires

Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires Steven-Elliot Altman Hells Kitchen Press, 1997 I feel kind of bad reviewing this book since it isn’t in print anymore and doesn’t seem to available for less then $32 from used vendors; I’ll do my best to keep this short.  Its limited availability is unfortunate since it was [...]

This! Is! THE PROMISED LAND!

Yes, I know the title makes no sense seeing as how God denied Moses the Promised Land, but bear with me here. Any article that mentions Moses, Moby Dick, and 300 is well worth a look.  The skinny being: Twentieth Century Fox will develop a retelling of the story of Moses, from his near death [...]

Review: The Space Between by Erik Tomblin

The Space Between Erik Tomblin Blue Fairy Books, 2009 Yes, another book from another small press publisher Blue Fairy Books.  At this point The Space Between by Erik Tomblin is their only book.  The site has a really neat flash trailer that really captures the atmosphere of the novel; you should definitely check it out.  The Space [...]

Review: The Tel Aviv Dossier by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv

The Tel Aviv Dossier Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv ChiZine Publications, 2009 Yes, another book from the folks at ChiZine though admittedly this one was a bit harder to find since there seem to be few physical copies left floating around.  It looks like Amazon Canada (linked to on the image to the left) has [...]

Horror gone MIA: Serenity Falls

I still maintain that horror as a genre is desperately clinging on to life or, at the least, is a genre that is struggling to find its place in an increasingly virulent print world.  In the long form, as novels, horror is definitely struggling from my perspective at least (a casual observer) though is succeeding [...]

Review: The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J Wiersema

The World More Full of Weeping Robert J Wiersema ChiZine Publications, 2009 The World More Full of Weeping, its title unabashedly ripped from the W. B. Yeats poem, “The Stolen Child” is a new novella (almost a short story) by author Robert J. Wiersema.  ChiZine Publications is a relative newcomer to the publisher scene but [...]

Steampunk September

Well September has come and gone and along with it my month long dip into to the realms of steampunk fiction.  It was interesting ride with some fantastic fiction featuring various flavors of steampunk; proving once again that even even amongst its sub-genres speculative fiction can be an amazingly diverse field.  Now that we are [...]