Category: Features

Tattered Tomes: Floating Dragon by Peter Straub, Revisited

August 3, 2017
8 mins to read

By the time I finally got around to reading Floating Dragon by Peter Straub, the book was a beaten and torn library copy that needed to have some of the pages taped back inside to keep it together. The spine wasn’t just cracked; the shiny purple paper had been worn off from the previous reader’s …

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Look Out For … The Walking Dead: Here’s Negan by Robert Kirkman

August 3, 2017
2 mins to read

Look Out For … The Walking Dead: Here’s Negan by Robert Kirkman “His backstory presented in a collected hardback for those of us who like to fill our bookcases with the walking dead.” Who is Negan? Since his debut in THE WALKING DEAD #100, the charismatic psychopath has antagonized Rick Grimes, murdered his friend with …

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Searchlight: The Successful Novelist by David Morrell

August 1, 2017
4 mins to read

There are tons of writing craft books out there, and I’ve read a lot of them. And then, there are those craft books I keep returning to again and again. The Successful Novelist: A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing by David Morrell is one of those books. Morrell, author of First Blood, The …

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Look Out For … Anno Dracula – One Thousand Monsters by Kim Newman

July 27, 2017
2 mins to read

Look Out For … Anno Dracula – One Thousand Monsters by Kim Newman “Newman’s Anno Dracula universe first appeared a quarter of a century ago and has yet to be topped in terms of originality and inventiveness.” “There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong…” Japan, …