Category: Reviews

Book Review: Scratch by David Moody

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“What follows is a convincing and often tense portrayal of domestic disharmony and broken, antagonistic relationships, with the added complication of a potential end-of-the-world threat looming too close to home.” Zombies. Shambling, decaying, occasionally running, moaning, reanimated corpses (or hypnotised humans for old-school purists, and infected people to antagonise the same). It would seem that …

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Book Review: I Am Providence by Nick Mamatas

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“Nick Mamatas has shown himself again and again to be one of the best, most conceptually diverse authors in genre fiction today.” When we think of weird Lovecraftian fiction, many things come to mind, things we’ve heard and read of so many times they’ve practically become embedded in our subconscious minds. Places and monsters like …

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Audiobook Review: End of Watch by Stephen King, read by Will Patton

End of Watch by Stephen King Audiobook cover

“Highly recommended, especially on a dark and snowy night when the wind is calling and there might be murderers just around the corner.” End of Watch is the last in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy of crime thrillers which started with the excellent Mr Mercedes and continued with the slightly disappointing but still fun Finders …

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Review: Black Static, Issue 53

Black Static, Issue 53 cover

“Another strong issue.” The months seem to fly by; late July and already it’s time for another issue of Black Static, that bastion of quality, literary horror. In this volume, there are no less than seven short stories alongside the usual opinion pieces and reviews. So, going from left to right … Issue #53 opens …

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