Archive for September, 2011

A review: Dancing With Bears

September 22nd 2011 at 2:33 pm

“Dancing with Bears is a book heavily dependent on wit and any reader ready for this kind of amusement will enjoy it. The book is, thankfully, not merely jocular, in quite the same way that Aubrey Darger, from whose point of view the quote above is taken, has more than wits about him. It is [...]

A review: Happily Ever After

September 22nd 2011 at 9:24 am

The Speculative Book Review says of Happily Ever After, edited by John Klima, “This is a beautiful book. The cover art (by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon) captures the essence of the tales contained within and each story has different small decorative motifs at the top of each page. A lot of care has been [...]

SF Signal Guest Post with Bradley P. Beaulieu

September 21st 2011 at 3:57 pm

Writing in Discomfort: One Writer’s Thoughts on Political Correctness. Brad has written a guest post for SF Signal discussing political correctness in fiction, “Years ago I had a discussion with a group of writers about writing beyond the boundaries of politeness. It wasn’t couched in quite this way at the time, but I think that’s [...]

Introducing: Mazarkis Williams

September 21st 2011 at 3:50 pm

The Civilian Reader has an interview with debut author Mazarkis Williams. Head over to the Civilian Reader blog to learn more about this wonderful new novelist. The Emperor’s Knife will hit the shelves of many of your favorite bookstores in December.

Interview and Giveaway

September 21st 2011 at 3:45 pm

My Bookish Ways has an interview with Southern Gods author John Hornor Jacobs, they are also giving away two copies of his fantastic novel! To read the interview and for your chance to win a copy head over there…now! Competition closes 30th September 2012.

Suvudu Booked! with J.M. McDermott

September 20th 2011 at 3:48 pm

Head over to Suvudu to read Booked! with Never Knew Another author, J.M. McDermott. He talks about his favorite book, can you guess what it is? Find out here.

An Interview with Ross E. Lockhart

September 20th 2011 at 3:41 pm

The Pacific Sun have interviewed our very own Ross E. Lockhart. Follow the link to read the full interview starting on page 8. The Book of Cthulhu, edited by Ross, is available from all the best retailers in paperback and eBook formats. It’s tentacletastic.

A review: The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3

September 20th 2011 at 3:37 pm

Library Journal reviews the latest in the Best Horror series from editor Ellen Datlow, “A profusion of magpies portends ominous events in Tanith Lee’s doomsday story “Black and White Sky,” while in Laird Barron’s “—30—,” a pair of wildlife experts find themselves inexplicably altered by their research. Award-winning editor Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) lends her expertise [...]

Truly insane. And also pretty damn brilliant.

September 20th 2011 at 3:35 pm

The Turned Brain reviews Yarn by Jon Armstrong and says, “Reading this book was like chugging three cans of red bull and going white water rafting while looking through a kaleidoscope.” Sound fun? It is. They continue, “Armstrong doesn’t give the reader even a second to get acclimatized to his setting, it’s BAM! GO from [...]

A review: The Book of Cthulhu

September 19th 2011 at 5:18 pm

Brian Sammons over at Horror World has written an awesome review of The Book of Cthulhu. He says, “If you want a great collection of Lovecraftian horror tales from the authors I mentioned above, not to mention other notables like Thomas Ligotti, Gene Wolfe, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Laird Barron, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., David Drake, [...]

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