Weird
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ALPHALAND by Cristina Jurado, translated by James Womack, Sue Burke, Monica Louzon, Steve Redwood and Inés Galiano (BOOK REVIEW)
Cristina Jurado – Alphaland (2023, translated by James Womack, Sue Burke, Monica Louzon, Steve Redwood and Inés Galiano) “For him, light has always been something foreign ... -
WHERE FURNACES BURN by Joel Lane (BOOK REVIEW)
“There’s always a link between deprivation and fantasy.” “The landscape we were walking through seemed less and less like a place where people had once lived ... -
LAMB by Matt Hill (BOOK REVIEW)
“Leigh, finally noticing Boyd, turned and smiled absently. But she couldn’t find a way to shed her startled expression, and her eyes were bloodshot. There were ... -
WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG by Kelly Link (BOOK REVIEW)
“We all want things it would be better not to want,” the cat says. “We pursue them anyway, don’t we?” Kelly Link’s uniquely wonderful and unusual ... -
THE UNKNOWN: WEIRD WRITINGS, 1900-1937 by Algernon Blackwood, edited by Henry Bartholomew (BOOK REVIEW)
“The signs are sure; for days they have been passing – close down upon the world. The flocks are scattered. There has been tumult – tumult ... -
BERG by Ann Quin (BOOK REVIEW)
“A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father…” And with that iconic opening line, ... -
CHILDREN OF PARADISE by Camilla Grudova (BOOK REVIEW)
“Living in the past in the same place I have to be in the present, my mind often feels like a double exposed photograph, and the ... -
THE WITNESSES ARE GONE by Joel Lane (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everything we search for, every holy grail, is something we cannot afford to find.” After bringing Joel Lane’s debut novel From Blue To Black (2000), short ... -
LEECH by Hiron Ennes (BOOK REVIEW)
“Many patients, in times of stress, will recount dreams haunted by images of their bodies falling apart. Sometimes they tell me stories of paralysis, or rotten ... -
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield (BOOK REVIEW)
“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.” Julia Armfield’s debut novel ...
