Any ramblings on any topic that takes my fancy. Here you’ll find reviews of books, TV, films, music etc that I’ve enjoyed recently.
Once Upon A Fang In the West
By John Dover The pitch for this novella sounds like the start of a joke: a cowboy, a vampire and a ghost walk into a bar… This line should let you know what kind of a book you are in for. Dover has written a fast-paced, blood soaked western and filled it with vampires, ghosts… Continue Reading →
The Opening by Tim McWhorter
Nick Fallon knows failure all too well. His string of collapsed business ventures make for a resume from hell. This next one, however, will be different. The Chamberlain Theater (sic) itself is different. Nick has bought himself a theatre and renovated it into a state of the art 4-D experience, but there’s something wrong with… Continue Reading →
Zhiguai:Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix
Translated by Yi Izzy Yu & John Yu Branscum ‘Zhiguai’ roughly translates as ‘true weird tales’ and that is exactly what you get in this book. Fifteen tales of real encounters with the unexplained – the titular ‘glitches in the matrix’. The stories contained here vary massively from spooky precognition dreams, strange visions and trips… Continue Reading →
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