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I’m currently in the middle of reading the 2019 Hugo finalists, alternating with the 1944 Retro Hugo finalists to avoid overdosing on either contemporary or vintage SFF. I just finished reading the f…
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Japan is monster country. Nowhere else on earth has the sheer variety of bizarre beasties lurking in every shadow. And no-one’s monsters are as weird. By official count Japan is haunted by eight mill…
For as long as I can remember — and probably longer — I’ve been intrigued by monsters. At preschool age, I had what my parents called an “overactive imagination,” and a long series of nightmares from…
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Orcs, geo-storms and time travel: these are things we’ve all read about in fiction books. But what do they mean to us as Africans, and why are we not writing about them? Growing up poor and black, th…
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The history of our genre, like that of all things, contains several ups and downs. From its beginnings in the pulp explosion, to its near-extinction during the second world war, to the resurgence dur…
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With the nominations for the 2019 Hugo Awards being recently announced, I was also pleased that this year’s Worldcon in Dublin also nominated books for a Retro Hugo – for 1944 (which means books/stor…
In Belhaven, North Carolina, there’s a girl who has trouble eating. Her name is Mary Ayers. Mary has a gastric ulcer, and Mary can only get a few bites down before it starts to hurt, so Mary stays th…
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"It takes time for a space to become a place. I'd never quite pinned down at what point during the gradual accretion of events and memories that houses became more than the sum of their parts, but I'…
“This isn’t your typical Modern-day Urban Fantasy; it’s infested with non-corporeal demons and multi-dimensional machine entities. A great read.” “Reyes writes excellent action scenes and if you are …
LOVECRAFT BLOCH COMICS TRIO – This post reviews weird short stories interpreted by Marvel Comic’s Journey Into Mystery series. HP Lovecraft was published in Weird Tales but never really made it as a …
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HP LOVECRAFT - HP (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft was born to a lunatic father and fragile mother in Providence RI where many of his tales are set. His grandfather, a successful businessman, died. Result…
Fantasy fiction - Fantasy can often be separated from other speculative fiction genres by the lack of scientific or macabre themes, but not always. It is set in a fictional universe, often without an…
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About Love Songs: The Hidden History: This book represents the first comprehensive survey of the music of romance, courtship and sexuality, and encompasses the complete story of the love song from an…
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Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, we’…
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Short Fiction Monday: Our exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about. “Welcome to Your Authentic I…
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Lands of the Earthquake by Henry Kuttner & Under a Dim Blue Sun by Howie K. Bentley The publishing company known as DMR Books had previously been a very solid 2 for 2 with this reader. Earlier this y…
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May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, a…
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The first interview on this blog, with John Linwood Grant, writer and editor of weird fiction, sharer of space with lurchers, and creator of several strange characters who live and move and have thei…
A monster is born to a woman and deemed “unnamable” by its parents. For years, the monster remains trapped in abandoned home until a college student named Joel Manton (Mark Parra) accidentally unleas…
