Tag: Weird
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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 ... -
GROWL AT THE MOON by Rhys Hughes (BOOK REVIEW)
Bill Bones was a normal human being until he studied under a Mojave Shaman and was transformed into a man-dog called The Growl. Now, driven by ... -
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 ...
