Category: Reviews

Book Review: Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas

December 29, 2014
6 mins to read

“One of the best single author collections of recent years!” Burnt Black Suns is the latest collection of short fiction from Canadian author Simon Strantzas. Strantzas is well known to British readers through the Shadows Edge anthology he edited for Gray Friar Press and his inclusion in numerous volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best …

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Book Review: Gifts For The One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

December 19, 2014
5 mins to read

“These stories continually amaze and beguile!” Helen Marshall is a Canadian poet and short story writer; Gifts For The One Who Comes After is her second collection of short fiction, after the highly acclaimed Hair Side Flesh Side, both published by ChiZine. Marshall’s work is fantastical and surreal, with similarities to that of writers like …

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Book Review: Strangers by David Moody

December 18, 2014
4 mins to read

“Dark, disturbing and visceral.” After releasing his superb Autumn novel back in 2001 David Moody became known as the premier British zombie writer, which is no bad thing given his innovative and intelligent take on the genre, but as he’s been keen to display in the last few years, there’s much more to Moody than …

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Film Review: The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

December 15, 2014
5 mins to read

“The Purge: Anarchy is a natural expansion of the first film which unfortunately proves too unwieldy for the director to keep a hold of!” The Purge: Anarchy is the new film from James DeMonaco and is the follow-up to the 2013 hit, The Purge. As with the original film, the central concept remains; for a …