Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 28, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 7
The Tongueless Horror and Other Stories by Wyatt Blassingame A little while back, I was very pleased to read my first collection in the genre known as “weird-menace” fiction, which genre mainly dealt, back in the 1930s and early ‘40s, with lurid, violent, supernatural stories that usually turned out to have rather mundane – and […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 19, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Shadow on the House by Mark Hansom For the past 35 years or so, I have been so busy trying to experience all the 200 books described in Stephen Jones’ and Kim Newman’s two excellent overview volumes – Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books – that I was completely unaware, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 15, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Intrigue on the Upper Level by Thomas Temple Hoyne Just recently, I had some words to say about Jack Williamson and Dr. Miles J. Breuer’s 1931 novel The Birth of a New Republic, in which a group of citizens (living on the Moon) rises up in rebellion against the despotic corporate forces oppressing them. Well, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Mar 23, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Before the Dawn by John Taine Following the release of John Taine’s four-part, serialized novel The Time Stream, which wrapped up in the March 1932 issue of Wonder Stories, fans of the Scottish-born author would have to wait a good 27 months for any more sci-fi product from him. But this is not to say […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 28, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 8
Odd John by Olaf Stapledon Just recently, I had some words to say regarding Olaf Stapledon’s superlative novel entitled Sirius (1944), which featured as its protagonist a German shepherd/border collie mix who, thanks to his owner’s experiments in genetic engineering and hormonal supplements, winds up a canine with the mentality of a human genius. It […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jul 29, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 5
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers Having recently seen Saving Mr. Banks, a film that purports to examine the strained relationship between author P.L. Travers and film-maker Walt Disney when it came to adapting Mary Poppins for the big screen, it was only natural that I finally got around to my long overdue reading of the […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 15, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley When I first saw the 1968 horror film “The Devil Rides Out” several years back at one of NYC’s numerous revival theatres, I thought it was one of the best Hammer films that I’d ever seen, and made a mental note to check out Dennis Wheatley‘s 1934 source […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 29, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Burn, Witch, Burn! / Creep, Shadow, Creep! by Abraham Merritt Having conquered the field of fantasy (with such classics as The Moon Pool, The Ship of Ishtar and Dwellers in the Mirage) as well as the field of the bizarre yet hardboiled crime thriller (with his wonderful Seven Footprints to Satan), Abraham Merritt went on, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 1, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Charnel God by Clark Ashton Smith Clark Ashton Smith’s most popular short stories take place in a land he called Zothique, the last continent on our dying earth. It rose out of the sea and its people have forgotten modern technologies, customs, and religions. Instead they worship strange gods and practice sorcery. Smith’s 16 […]
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