Tag: short story collection
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STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES FROM THE VOID by Erik McHatton (BOOK REVIEW)
When we go the cinema for the latest slasher, when we pick up that paperback from hell on a dusty, shadowy shelf, when we walk home, ... -
PORTRAITS OF DECAY by Carson Winter (BOOK REVIEW)
Fear for the Anxious Animal: Carson Winter’s Portraits of Decay It’s easy to forget why the strange and the unfamiliar unsettles us. You watch and ... -
SWORD STONE TABLE: OLD LEGENDS, NEW VOICES edited by Swapna Kirshna and Jenn Northington (BOOK REVIEW)
Synopsis: Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in ... -
BEING ACE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER, TRANS, FEMME, AND DISABLED STORIES OF ASEXUAL LOVE AND CONNECTION edited by Madeline Dyer (BOOK REVIEW)
Synopsis: From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer ... -
AN ORCHID IN MY BELLY BUTTON by Katy Wimhurst (COVER REVEAL)
Offbeat short stories that explore our fragile world These stories savour the surreal, flirt with magical realism, dabble with dystopia. A boy sees the ghosts of ... -
OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK by Marian Womack (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everyone knows information is sacred. People have died in its pursuit, by accidents or else killed.” “There are no more icebergs. They only exist in our ... -
DEAD LETTERS: EPISODES OF EPISTOLARY HORROR edited by Jacob Steven Mohr (BOOK REVIEW)
Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror What a year it’s been for anthologies. For years, I’ve read creepy short stories before bed. From MR James to ... -
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 ... -
EYES GUTS THROAT BONES by Moïra Fowley (BOOK REVIEW)
Moïra Fowley is the author of three critically acclaimed YA novels, and a part-time witch. She is half-Irish, half-French, and lives in Dublin. Moïra has a ... -
HIT PARADE OF TEARS by Izumi Suzuki (BOOK REVIEW)
Izumi Suzuki – Hit Parade of Tears (2023, translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O’Horan and Daniel Joseph) “Hey, it’s pretty common these days. Some ...