Category: Reviews

Book Review: Disorders of Magnitude by Jason V Brock

February 6, 2015
5 mins to read

“Marvellous interviews – well worth a look” Rowman and Littlefield, publishers of high class academic texts at even higher prices, have added a new title to their Studies in Supernatural Literature series. Previous volumes have dealt with specific authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Lord Dunsany and H P Lovecraft. Disorders of Magnitude (that’s a great …

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Film Review: Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

December 31, 2014
4 mins to read

“Not great, but creepy enough to be effective.” Possession movies are ten a penny these days, with Hollywood churning out exorcism films like pasta. Every so often, one comes along that doesn’t stick to the tried and tested routines and resultantly appears like a fresh piece of fruit in a bowl of decay. Deliver Us …

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Book Review: The Year’s Best Weird Fiction (ed. Michael Kelly and Laird Barron)

December 31, 2014
9 mins to read

“The Year’s Best Weird Fiction triumphantly lives up to its title.” The Year’s Best Weird Fiction is a new annual anthology; this inaugural volume contains two introductions, twenty-two stories and runs to 125k words in its attempts to sum up what ‘weird fiction’ is. As interesting as the introductions are, the weird is perhaps better …

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Book Review: The End by Gary McMahon

December 30, 2014
5 mins to read

“The End is further proof that McMahon is approaching the top of his game as a writer.” Gary McMahon’s latest novel The End is an apocalyptic thriller, which documents a bizarre suicide plague as it strikes London and takes a grip on the nation’s capital. The story centres on Mac Booth and his small group …