Weird
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LOST IN THE GARDEN by Adam S. Leslie (BOOK REVIEW)
“STAY AWAY FROM ALMANBY. Almanby is dangerous. Go anywhere, but don’t go to Almanby. But no one ever specified why. No one thought to impress upon ... -
THE SECRET LIFE OF INSECTS by Bernardo Esquinca (BOOK REVIEW)
Bernardo Esquinca – The Secret Life Of Insects (2024, translated by James D. Jenkins, illustrations by Luis Pérez Ochando) “Don’t knock liars: they’re great storytellers. In ... -
THREE EIGHT ONE by Aliya Whiteley (BOOK REVIEW)
“Are these the kinds of decisions people from the Age of Riches had to make all the time? To abandon what’s best for the world and ... -
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 ...