Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Joe Hill is the most promising new horror writer on the horizon. His first book, a collection of short stories called 20th Century Ghosts (2007). It was a revelation: quirky, brilliant and scary. I gave it a rave review when I first read it, and I still return to those stories […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna and Jason Golomb´s rating: 4 | Joe Hill | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son. Good, now that’s out of the way. 20th Century Ghosts (2007) is a prime collection of short fiction. Some stories are horror, some are literary horror and some aren’t horror at all. Hill has a strong style, a distinctive voice, and a willingness to […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Joe Hill | Short Fiction, World Fantasy Award | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill (author) & Gabriel Rodriguez (artist) Psst. Hey, you. Yeah, you. You wanna see something really scary? Here. It’s the first volume of Joe Hill’s horror comic Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, the trade collection of the first six chapters in this story. The art is done […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Joe Hill | Comics | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Locke and Key (Vol. 2): Head Games by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez A solid and scary second section to this first-class horror story. Warning; may contain spoilers of Volume One; Welcome to Lovecraft After everything the Locke family went through in Volume One, Welcome to Lovecraft, they need a break. Unfortunately, in Volume Two of this […]
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Locke and Key (Vol 3): Crown of Shadows by Joe Hill (writer) and Gabriel Rodriguez (artist) Toil and trouble; the cauldron begins to bubble. (May contain spoilers of earlier volumes.) In Crown of Shadows, the third volume in Locke and Key, written by Joe Hill and drawn by Gabriel Rodriguez, the simmering sense of doom […]
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Horns by Joe Hill CLASSIFICATION: Horns is a murder mystery/love story/revenge thriller with a dark supernatural twist in the vein of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub. FORMAT/INFO: Horns is 384 pages long divided over 4 titled Parts and 50 numbered chapters. Narration is in the third-person, mainly via the protagonist Ignatius “Ig” Perrish, […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Robert Thompson (RETIRED) | Joe Hill | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Reposting to include Marion’s new review. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son. Everyone on the same page? Okay… Hill has delivered a deeply satisfying and literate novel in NOS4A2. He is absolutely his own man, and he’s very good. But he’s also picked up some tricks from his father. He writes […]
Read MoreJason Golomb and Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Joe Hill | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 13 comments |
The Wraith by Joe Hill (writer) and Charles Paul Wilson III (artist) The Wraith is a horror comic book based on Joe Hill’s novel NOS4A2, and I can’t tell you how much I dislike horror as a general rule. However, this book is absolutely brilliant, and I loved it. I have not read the novel, […]
Read MoreBrad Hawley´s rating: 5 | Joe Hill | Comics | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Fireman by Joe Hill First of all, Joe Hill‘s The Fireman is no horror story. It’s apocalypse-lit through and through but without the hackneyed zombies and vampires. Second of all, The Fireman is thoroughly infected with the ‘King’ family genetics. If there were any doubt about a connection between Joe and his old man, […]
Read MoreJason Golomb´s rating: 4 | Joe Hill | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Matthew Cheney’s “How Far to Englishman’s Bay” leads off the eleventh issue of Nightmare Magazine. Max, the protagonist, impulsively decides to close up his bookshop and permanently leave his home on the day he turns 50. Max drives miles away from his home, finally deciding he’s lost and stopping to ask directions. It’s here that […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna | Clive Barker, Joe Hill, Robert McCammon | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we’ve recently read. “Please Undo this Hurt” by Seth Dickinson (2015, free at Tor.com, Kindle version) This is a really beautiful story about compassion, pain, and what it means to burn out. “Please Undo This Hurt” […]
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Here are a few shorter SFF works that we read this week that we wanted you to know about. Some great finds this week! Blood Grains Speak Through Memories by Jason Sanford (March 2016, free at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, free ebook available on the author’s website) Frere-Jones Roeder is the anchor of her land, charged with its […]
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SHORTS: Our column exploring free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. This week’s post reviews two more Locus Award nominees, along with other recent short fiction works that we’ve enjoyed. Late Returns by Joe Hill (2019, included in the Full Throttle collection). Locus award finalist (novelette) Joe Hill, who like his famous father […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones, Skye Walker and Kat Hooper | Joe Hill, Suzanne Palmer, Tobias Buckell | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams I never knew there were so many ways to tell a zombie story. I pretty much thought that the George Romero version was it — dead people wandering around holding their arms out in front of them and calling out “braaaaaaains,” looking to munch on the living. […]
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden (ed.) FORMAT/INFO: The New Dead is 400 pages long divided over nineteen short stories. Also includes a Foreword by the editor Christopher Golden, and biographies on all of the anthology’s contributors. February 16, 2010 marks the North American Trade Paperback publication of The New Dead via […]
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Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 edited by William Schafer EDITOR INFORMATION: William K. Schafer is the head editor at Subterranean Press, which was founded in 1995. Schafer’s bibliography includes Embrace the Mutation: Fiction Inspired by the Art of J.K. Potter and the first Tales of Dark Fantasy anthology. ABOUT SUBTERRANEAN: TALES OF DARK FANTASY […]
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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury edited by Sam Weller & Mort Castle Thanks to our recent book chats here, I’ve reread a bit of Ray Bradbury lately, so I was well primed to pick up the 2012 tribute anthology edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle, entitled Shadow Show: All-New Stories in […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Audrey Niffenegger, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Kelly Link, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Robert McCammon | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
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