If you read a horror magazine on a Monday, maybe Monday won’t seem so horrible. Unless, of course, your average Monday involves vampires or insect attacks.
There are five stories in Issue 29 of Black Static, and every reader is likely to find one that at least makes her uncomfortable, if not scare the wits out of her.
The first is Nina Allan’s “Sunshine,” a new take on vampires. Beginning with a quotation about medicinal leeches that was itself enough to make me shudder,
October 8th, 2012. Terry Weyna | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
In Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, beautiful young Lucy Westenra was staked and buried after being turned into a vampire. Emma Cornwall’s Incarnation picks it up from there. Lucy (here called Lucy Weston) awakens in the grave and claws her way back to the surface, where she makes her way to London and embarks on a search for the mysterious creature who transformed her.
While Incarnation uses events from Dracula as a jumping-off point,
October 8th, 2012. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Emma Cornwall | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Paths of the Dead by Steven Brust
The Paths of the Dead is the first book in Steven Brust’s THE VISCOUNT OF ADRILANKHA trilogy, which is a sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years. Each of these books is an installment in Brust’s KHAAVREN ROMANCES and they’re all related to his VLAD TALTOS books which, at this moment, consist of 13 novels. All of these books have just been released in audio format by Audible Frontiers.
October 8th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Steven Brust | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
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