Art by Corin M. Howell, Colours by Triona Farrell, Letters by Andworld Design and design by Tim Daniel Spy craft meets witchcraft in the shadowy world of MI666 Issue 1 of a new series by Cavan Scott, who has an impressive resume of titles including work on a few Star Wars lines and Wonder Woman,... Continue Reading →
Rhitta Gawr is out!
Philip and Quin believe climbing Snowdon at night will be a worthy challenge. If they knew the local legends they wouldn’t go at night, as there’s a reason the Welsh call Snowdon Yr Wyddfa — The Burial Ground — which Philip and Quin are about to find out the hard way… A couple of years ago, I... Continue Reading →
Your Turn To Suffer by Tim Waggoner
Lori is determined to confront the Cabal and get her life back…. Having not read much by Tim Waggoner before this, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. From the blurb, Lori Palumbo has to ‘confess and atone – or suffer’, so I was envisaging some kind of cult type thing, especially with the Cabal... Continue Reading →
Dark Missives by Dan Howarth
My pre-release review copy. Great cover! This is Dan Howarth’s first collection of short fiction and it’s a good one, filled with diverse stories that all successfully highlight Howarth’s abilities as a writer. There are eleven stories in total covering a range of topics, including wrong doings in a holiday park, the Liverpool blitz, stalkers, and a home that doesn’t want to be... Continue Reading →
The Apocalypse Strain by Jason Parent
A multi-national research team study an ancient pandoravirus in a remote Siberian research facility. Much calamity and death ensue. Okay, so the actual blurb for the book reads a lot longer than my synopsis, but that should be enough to give you the gist. I went into this assuming it would be a bad idea... Continue Reading →
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is probably best known for his Revelation Space sequence of books, which is how I came across him (fun fact – Revelation Space is the first thing I ever bought from Amazon). If you like hard science fiction, then these books are a must and once I’d read them, I devoured everything else... Continue Reading →
Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
Excellent. Buy it. Do I need to say more? Oh, ok then. This is not my usual sort of read at all but I was utterly gripped by this superbly written tale of farming folk from around 150 years or so ago. Gideon moves from Bath due to something his Father did (slowly revealed as... Continue Reading →
Horror in the Eye of the Beholder
By Marta Oliehoek-Samitowska The cover. Not going to lie - I don't like it Horror in the Eye of the Beholder is an entertaining selection of interviews covering the links between cinematic horror and literature, and specifically the influences between both. The book contains 21 interviews with different authors, from genre legends Ramsey Campbell and Adam Nevill through to relative newcomers such as Gemma Amor. Each interview starts... Continue Reading →
There Goes Pretty by CC Adams
Cover ©Dark Minds Press Not all marriages are happy. But very few become this terrifying. CC Adams is turning into a prolific writer, with a solid body of work behind him. Novellas like Forfeit Tissue and But Worse Will Come marked him out as someone to keep an eye on. This, his latest, from Dark... Continue Reading →
Arcana by Paul Kane
Great cover! Paul Kane is a name that deserves far wider recognition. His imagination is all over the place and you are never sure what you’re going to get from him. So far he has covered a reimagination of the Robin Hood myth, the end of the world with a disease, Sherlock Holmes crossing paths... Continue Reading →
David Watkins 