Previous SFF Author: Anthony Horowitz
Necroscope (1986) is the first in a series of 18 novels and novellas that Brian Lumley has written about Harry Keogh, a man who has the power to speak to the dead. I have previously read one of these novellas (The Mobius Murders) and wanted to read more stories about Harry. I purchased the audiobook of this first one at Audible a few years ago and have been waiting for the rest to be put on audio before starting.
September 25th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Brian Lumley | Audio, Horror | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Fright into Flight edited by Amber Fallon
2018’s Fright into Flight anthology, edited by Amber Fallon, contains a collection of stories written by women. Theoretically, each story deals with flight, although that definition is broad. Because this was published by Word Horde, I expected a horror anthology, but several of these stories aren’t horror, and one is straight-up fantasy. All but one of the stories is a reprint. “I Did it for the Art” by Izzy Lee, is original to this volume.
Here’s the table of contents:
“The Floating Girls: A Documentary,” by Damien Angelica Walters.
September 11th, 2018. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Our exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about.
“Death and the Compass” by Jorge Luis Borges (1954, free online version)
When Edgar Allen Poe goes in for creating an all-divining detective, you get “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; when Gene Wolfe does it, you get “The Detective of Dreams”; when Jorge Luis Borges does it, you end up with “Death and the Compass”. No disrespect to Poe or Wolfe,
September 10th, 2018. Nathan Okerlund, Tadiana Jones, Jana Nyman and Bill Capossere | Jorge Luis Borges, Lavie Tidhar | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
The Outsider (2018) by Stephen King is a big book with a big, layered story. With great effort I’m going to hold my review to one or two aspects of it. First things first; it’s horror, with its roots in King’s classic horror works but with a sensibility influenced by the modern world. It’s good. Horror readers will love it and be creeped out by it, but non-horror readers will find plenty that is thought-provoking (and they’ll be creeped out by it).
June 22nd, 2018. Marion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Stephen King | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Today’s SHORTS column features all of the 2018 Locus Award finalists for short fiction. The Locus Award winners will be announced by Connie Willis during Locus Award weekend, June 22 – June 24, 2018.
NOVELLAS:
In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (2017)
Claudio, a middle-aged curmudgeonly farmer living in a remote area of the Italian countryside, has been a standoffish loner since his wife left him decades ago. He’s satisfied with his current lifestyle,
May 28th, 2018. Kat Hooper, Skye Walker, Taya Okerlund, Terry Weyna, Bill Capossere, Nathan Okerlund, Tadiana Jones and Katie Burton | Charlie Jane Anders, Elizabeth Hand, JY Yang, Kai Ashante Wilson, Karen Joy Fowler, Ken Liu, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Peter S. Beagle, Samuel R. Delany | Audio, Horror, Locus Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few excellent stories, including three more from the current crop of Nebula and Hugo award nominees.
Dirty Old Town by Richard Bowes (2017, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, May/June 2017 issue; PDF is temporarily free here, courtesy of F&SF). 2018 Nebula award nominee (novelette)
Richard Bowes is no stranger to semi-autobiographical work. He returns to that form here in his novelette Dirty Old Town,
April 9th, 2018. Katie Burton and Tadiana Jones | Aliette De_Bodard, Richard Bowes | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
“Flow” Marissa Lingen (March 2018, free at Fireside Fiction)
In Marissa Lingen’s “Flow,” teenaged Gigi, who loves her father and proudly shares his mannerisms, accidentally discovers — or is discovered by — naiads in the nearby woods. The naiads knew her father, and are pleased to meet Gigi, who spends time over the coming years performing small tasks for the naiads and coming to know more about their environment.
March 26th, 2018. Jana Nyman and Tadiana Jones | Fran Wilde | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
Terry: Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It (2017) made the long list for the Bram Stoker Award for 2017, and for good reason: it’s delightfully frightening, and refuses to be set down before the reader has finished it. We both loved it.
Here’s the premise: James and Julie have decided to leave the city for a small town a good distance away, looking for a clean break from financial problems (though Julie has determined she is not going to harp on how James gambled all of his nest egg away;
March 8th, 2018. Marion Deeds and Terry Weyna´s rating: 5 | Jac Jemc | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Revival is a very modern Stephen King novel that channels H.P. Lovecraft at his cyclopean best. His key characters are bold, if not as colorful as some of his best work, and his themes are of familiar and well-trodden King territory. Often hammered by critics (professional and amateur alike) for his weak endings, King builds up to a conclusion that is strong and memorable. It’s monstrous, dark and creepy as hell. It’s pure Lovecraft and beautiful in its austerity.
February 16th, 2018. Jason Golomb and Marion Deeds´s rating: 2.5, 4 | Stephen King | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
“To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.” – Chinese proverb
“Every city is a ghost.” – Opening line of Lair of Dreams
Dreams become traps and deadly nightmares in Lair of Dreams, the second installation in Libba Bray’s DIVINERS fantasy horror series. In 1927, a crew of men is opening up an old walled-off tunnel underneath the streets of New York City in order to build a new subway tunnel.
February 15th, 2018. Tadiana Jones and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Libba Bray | Horror | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
Previous SFF Author: Anthony Horowitz
Do it! One of the best things I've read in recent years.
This reminds me. I want to read Addie LaRue.
We’re in total agreement David!
I felt just the same. The prose and character work was excellent. The larger story was unsatisfying, especially compared to…
Hmmm. I think I'll pass.