Sorry the blog’s been quiet! Not because nothing’s been going on… just that it’s been going on in other forums. One day I’ll get around to updating the bibliography and other pages, but in the meantime they’re like a peek back. Hard to believe the first posts are nearly 10 years old, moved here when I switched to WordPress all the way back in 2008!
RSS supporting our friends at Black Gate- Goth Chick News: The Cursed, a Werewolf Tale Coming in FebruaryThe Cursed (LD Entertainment, February 18, 2022) Trust the Brits to create nightmares from nursery rhymes. You’re probably familiar with “Ring Around the Rosie” and its reference to the Black Death of the mid-seventeenth century. When children on the playground fall down laughing at the end of this rhyme, they are reenacting the plague in which a quarter of […]
- Random Reviews: The Night of the CootersThroughout 2022, I’ll be reviewing short stories. Some of these may be classics, others forgotten. The two things that all will have in common is that they are part of my personal collection and they will be selected through a randomization process. What works and authors I look at will be entirely selected by a roll of the dice. “Night of the Cooters,” ori […]
- Ellsworth’s Cinema of Swords: An Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized AgeStar Wars (Twentieth Century Fox, 1977) In adventure movies throughout the twentieth century, swords had been losing ground to guns as the hero’s weapon of choice. Though films of knights, pirates, and cavaliers had a strong start in the silent era, they were gradually sidelined over the decades as Western, gangster, and war movies came to the fore. By 1971, […]
- Erekosë and MeMichael Moorcock’s Erekosë saga is contained in three novels, and graphic novel, and a couple of short stories which were incorporated into his novels of Elric, Corum, and Hawkmoon. I was first introduced to the character when I came across him in those interpolated adventures and I sought out his own novel, The Eternal Champion. When I first read it in the […]
- Occult Detective Magazine #8 Now AvailableWraparound cover for Occult Detective Magazine 8. Cover art by Stefan Keller Occult Detective Magazine is back on the racks! With an overstuffed issue — 227 whopping pages! — and brand new fiction from Rhys Hughes, Robert Guffey, Rebecca Buchanan, Uche Nwaka, C L Raven, Christina White, and many more. Here’s the issue summary from their website. ODM #8 – pac […]
- You Should Be Streaming These ShowsI really didn’t start streaming series’ until 2020. So, there were a lot of shows already completed; or with multiple seasons out there. Now, I mix them in with watching network shows on demand (I just finished first watch of Suits, was fantastic), and movies. Today, I’m going to talk about some streaming shows I think you should check out. COBRA KAI I’m goi […]
- Vintage Treasures: The Dominions of Irth Trilogy by Adam Lee (A. A. Attanasio)The Dominions of Irth Trilogy by Adam Lee (Avon Eos, 1998-2000). Covers uncredited The first science fiction website I ever launched was the SF Site, way back in 1995. I partnered with Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh, and Wayne MacLaurin to start Canada’s first big SF book blog, and it was a big success, with plenty of early traffic and award nominations. Best of […]
- Living in the Labyrinth: Susanna Clarke’s PiranesiPiranesi (Bloomsbury paperback reprint, September 28, 2021) I stopped apologizing about preferring old books over new ones a long time ago. One of the best things about reading, after all, is that it’s a kingdom over which you are an absolute sovereign. You alone can confer the Order of the Garter; only you can shout, “Off with their heads!” Nevertheless, wh […]
- New Treasures: The Vanished Birds by Simon JimenezThe Vanished Birds (Del Rey, January 26, 2021) January is that time of year when I browse BEST OF THE YEAR lists, wondering what I missed (it’s usually a lot). One title that shows up repeatedly is Simon Jimenez’s debut novel The Vanished Birds, which I picked up in paperback last January, and which promptly vanished into the towering to-be-read stack next t […]
- Goth Chick News: The Scary Games I Can’t Wait to Play in 2022I realize that persons of a certain age have literally been witness to dramatic (and drastic) evolutions. Consider the term “gamer.” Webster’s online dictionary defines this term as, “a person who plays video games or participates in role-playing games.” However, until the early 1990’s the definition stated only, “a person who plays or participates in role-p […]
- Goth Chick News: The Cursed, a Werewolf Tale Coming in February
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