Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates and The Pale Brown Thing by Fritz Leiber

  • July 5, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates “These stories combine suspenseful plotting with an astute eye for both character and setting.” Showcasing the darker side of the author’s imagination, Dark Travellings takes us from a post-apocalyptic future where music offers mankind its only hope to a quiet country lane where an apparently chance encounter …

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The Dark Water of Koji Suzuki

  • July 5, 2016

  • 9 mins to read

Rain Water Drops

Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …

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Book Review: The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

  • July 5, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

“ Prescribing to his own rule of ‘avoiding what’s been done to death’, The Booking shows Campbell in top form with a strange and creepy tale that lingers long after the last page is turned.” For over fifty years, British author Ramsey Campbell has been scaring readers with his strange and wholly original horror stories. …

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Book Review: Stolen Away by Kristin Dearborn

  • July 5, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

Stolen Away cover

“Dearborn is not afraid of the dark, nor does she flinch at shocking, brutal violence and her characters face plenty of it as they race to save Trisha’s missing son from the clutches of a demon.” Recently there have been a lot of novels published that could be thought of as action-horror fiction. Motorman, by …

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