Archive for August, 2011
A Review: The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3
August 23rd 2011 at 4:22 pm
The Thinking About Books blog reviews The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 3 and says, “The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 3 is a superb anthology, demonstrating just how well Ellen Datlow judges stories and picks winners.” Read the full review online.
Countdown to Cthulhu: Happy Birthday HPL!
August 20th 2011 at 12:23 pm
Happy birthday wishes to Cthulhu’s creator, the guy who started it all, Howard Philips Lovecraft. H.P.L. would have been one hundred twenty-one years old today. And unlike the protagonist of his short story “The Outsider,” Lovecraft doesn’t look a day over ninety-nine…
A Review: Southern Gods
August 19th 2011 at 5:04 pm
The Onion AV Club reviewed Southern Gods this week and loved it and John Hornor Jacobs writing, saying, “Even when knee-deep in gore, his prose bears a perverse, leisurely politeness, and that down-home drawl renders his quiet moments of tenderness especially poignant. Jacobs’ absorbing passages about music shine brightest, though. Everything from the blues’ ritualistic [...]
A Review: The Book of Cthulhu
August 19th 2011 at 4:45 pm
Josh Vogt reviews The Book of Cthulhu, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, on the Examiner.com and gives it four out of five stars! “The main advantage The Book of Cthulhu has going for it is the enormous span and variety of sources it draws from. Gathering Cthulhu-inspired stories from both 20th and 21st-century authors, this [...]
Countdown to Cthulhu: Door to Door Service
August 18th 2011 at 5:32 pm
Just a couple more weeks to go until The Book of Cthulhu rises from the sea. Time to clip on a tie, hop on my bicycle, and go door-to-door to spread the good word. I imagine it will go a little something like this…
A Review: The Whitefire Crossing
August 18th 2011 at 5:27 pm
Bibliotropic says of The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer, “Thoughts: There comes a time in every avid reader’s life when their biggest regret about a book is just how long it took them to pick the thing up and open it to the first page. This is how it is with me. The Whitefire Crossing [...]
A Review: Fritz Leiber Selected Stories
August 18th 2011 at 5:16 pm
Head on over to Asimov’s, they have a superb review of Fritz Leiber Selected Stories, “Given Fritz Leiber’s love of felines, and the fact that he was responsible for one of the great Beatnik SF stories of all time, “The Beat Cluster” (see the astonishingly groovy Galaxy magazine cover illo for “Beat Cluster” here: www.philsp.com/data/images/g/galaxy_196110.jpg), [...]
A review: Southern Gods
August 16th 2011 at 4:27 pm
Not read Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs yet? This review is awesome and will send you running out to grab a copy! Hellnotes says, “An often quoted line from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is: “If music be the food of love, play on.” The novel Southern Gods takes an opposing view; music is the source [...]
A review: The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten
August 16th 2011 at 4:11 pm
The Portland Book Review says of The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten by Harrison Geillor, “Those familiar with the Lake Wobegon stories and characters will feel like they’ve come home. Pastor Inkfist and Father Edsel create an International Anti-Zombie Task Force. They recruit the Lutheran Women’s Circle to notify residents of a town meeting (refreshments to [...]
Countdown to Cthulhu: The Big Giveaway Has Begun
August 16th 2011 at 6:55 am
With the help of Goodreads, the leading book cataloging community on the Internet, we’re giving away seven signed (by the editor) copies of The Book of Cthulhu…
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