Today we welcome David Walton, whose science fiction thriller Living Memory was just released on October 18th (here’s my review). This is the seventh novel of David’s we’ve reviewed and in the past he’s been gracious enough to sit down with us (so to speak) to answer some questions about his books and his writing in general.
This time, we’re not doing any of the talking. Instead, David has gifted us with an essay about how Living Memory, at least in part,
October 21st, 2022. Bill Capossere | David Walton | Author Interviews, Expanded Universe, Giveaway! | 12 comments |
The Nectar of Nightmares by Craig Laurance Gidney
It’s horror season for me, the time of year where I usually settle in with a cozy haunted house story, but sometimes branch out into the region of the genuinely horrifying or the truly weird. Craig Laurance Gidney’s short story collection The Nectar of Nightmares, published in 2022, fits that bill. As with most collections, I loved several, and a few were misses for me. This is even more likely to happen with a horror collection than,
October 21st, 2022. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Craig Laurance Gidney | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Born in upstate NY in 1948, John Carpenter would go on to become not only one of the foremost directors of horror films of his generation, but a producer, screenwriter and composer, as well. His first film, the amusing sci-fi thriller Dark Star (’74), had shown how very effective he could be even on a limited budget, while his second, Assault on Precinct 13 (’76), had been a remarkably tense urban-crime wringer that was more than a little in debt to, of all things, the seminal 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead.
October 21st, 2022. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
Detective duo, Strike and Robin, are back for the sixth instalment of the CORMORAN STRIKE series, and they’ve got their work cut out for them. They’re presented with a case unlike any they’ve come across before and what ensues is a twisting mystery that might just be the best book of the series so far.
When Edie Ledwell enters the office of the detective agency, Robin Ellacott doesn’t know what to make of her. She’s disheveled, panicked and, when she asks the agency to investigate the online abuse she’s been receiving,
October 20th, 2022. Ray McKenzie´s rating: 4.5 | J.K. Rowling | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Living Memory by David Walton
Living Memory (2022), by David Walton, is a fast-paced techno-thriller that reads with a bit of an echo of Michael Crichton, though with a premise that I’d say is more richly imaginative than at least the several Crichton works I’ve read. The beginning of a new series, this first book will leave many a reader eager for more.
The story’s opening is set in Thailand where an American-funded group of paleontologists, led by American Samira Shannon, are frantically wrapping up a dig site thanks to a just-announced deportation policy following the installation of a new government via a Chinese-backed coup.
October 20th, 2022. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | David Walton | SFF Reviews | no comments |
What fan of horror cinema does not like a good vampire story? Perhaps the most popular and oft-used figure in the history of the scary movie, the vampire, going back to Max Schreck’s rat-visaged monster in 1922’s Nosferatu and on to Bela Lugosi’s infamous count in 1931’s Dracula, has been a mainstay in tales of fright almost from the very beginning. And the cinema’s love affair with the bloodsucking creatures of the night seems to show no sign of abatement, as a latter-day series of sparkly pretty-boy vampires would seem to suggest. In today’s Shocktober column,
October 20th, 2022. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Trick or Treat! One commenter selected at random gets a copy of Craig Laurance Gidney’s story collection The Nectar of Nightmares.
Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Dame Carmen Callil, who founded the feminist Virago Press, passed away at the age of 84. Virago reissued classic works by women that had been allowed to languish as well as popular fiction of previous decades that had also faded from memory or been erased. In 1972,
October 19th, 2022. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 5 comments |
For many people, the mention of Japanese horror cinema will most likely bring to mind the series of colorful monster movies that Toho Studios brought to the world, starting with 1954’s Gojira. But while those Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Kong and assorted kaiju-eiga films were undoubtedly a lot of fun, as any horror fan would tell you, they are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the field of Japanese horror, or J-horror as it is known today. From the increasingly sophisticated horror fare of the 1960s to the unbelievably gore-drenched and pyrotechnic displays of the late ‘90s and 2000s,
October 19th, 2022. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
What Lives in the Woods by Lindsay Currie
Ginny — or Gin — Anderson is looking forward to the summer writing workshop she’s going to attend with her best friend Erica, in their hometown of Chicago, until Dad upends the family’s plans because of a job. He’d going to restore a century-old house-turned-hotel, The Woodmoor Manor, in Michigan. The family will live there while he works.
This sounds terrible to Gin and her older brother Leo. While Leo is soon appeased by the news that Saugatuck, the nearby small town,
October 18th, 2022. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Lindsay Currie | Children, Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
A lank-haired ghost girl, her face completely shrouded by her wet and stringy locks, crawls out of a well and then straight through a watcher’s TV set! The girl in question, of course, is Sadako Yamamura, a character who has, since her first on-screen appearance in 1998’s Ringu, become one of the most frightening creations in all of Japanese cinema. Based on the 1991 novel Ring by Koji Suzuki, the first Ring film would prove so popular that it went on to become the basis for an entire franchise; a bewildering number of interlinked projects that today comprises some eight Japanese films,
October 18th, 2022. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Oh...and the men used the name "The Great Northern Expedition" to throw people off as to their actual destination, even…
Oh, it IS, Marion! It is!
Sorry if I mislead you in this detail, Paul...the voyage by ship was only the first leg of the quintet's…
The geography is confusing me--how does one get to a village in Tibet by ship? And even the northernmost part…
Oh, this sounds interesting!