Awards:
The British Fantasy Awards were announced and winners include Victor LaValle, N.K. Jemisin, Joe Hill, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda among others.
Books and Writing:
This is one of the most thoughtful, compassionate and helpful essays I’ve read in quite a while.
PEN America is preparing to sue President Donald Trump for his actions against journalists and media organizations.
Publishers Weekly has an article about the graphic novel business in the USA.
October 24th, 2018. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 1 comment |
No Sleep Till Doomsday by Laurence MacNaughton
No Sleep Till Doomsday (2018), the third installment in Laurence MacNaughton’s DRU JASPER series, delivers all the excitement, action, romance and humor I expect from these books — plus, it brings in a new muscle-car who is an ancient rival of the speed-demon Hellbringer, and I’ve come to love Hellbringer.
Dru is a crystal sorceress in Denver, Colorado, who together with a group of allies is trying to stop the breaking of the seals on the Apocalypse Scroll and the resulting Doomsday.
October 24th, 2018. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Laurence MacNaughton | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Witch House by Evangeline Walton
Ever since British author Horace Walpole kick-started the haunted house genre with his seminal short novel of Gothic romance, The Castle of Otranto (1765), there have been hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels centered on this most shuddery of literary subjects. But for this reader, the two novels at the very top of the ectoplasmic heap have long been Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959), still the most spine-tingling book that I have ever read,
October 24th, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Evangeline Walton | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 11 comments |
The Mysterious Doctor directed by Benjamin Stoloff
A seeming meld of fog-shrouded Universal horror and the rah-rah wartime propaganda films that were so prevalent during the era, the Warner Brothers offering The Mysterious Doctor turns out to be a minor concoction that should just manage to please modern audiences. Released in March 1943, during the darkest days of World War II, the picture provides some chilling escapism while at the same time inspiring its target audience to greater productivity in the war effort. For today’s viewer, the film works as an efficient little chiller and as a showcase for its ingénue female star,
October 24th, 2018. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
I picked my copy up last week and I can't wait to finish my current book and get started! I…
Gentlemen, I concur! (Forgive me for jumping into your convo)
The cover is amazing. I love how the graphic novel (and the review!) hewed close to the theme of "good…
I've thought about picking that one up. The artwork looks perfect.
I like the way you think, Bill. I found the second one particularly objectionable; the one with Khan. It was…