mrkvm rated The Haunting of Tram Car 015: 3 stars
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark's short fiction, where humans live and work …
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mrkvm rated The Angel of Khan el-Khalili: 3 stars
The Angel of Khan el-Khalili by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.2)
A girl visits a bazaar in Cairo, seeking a favor from a mysterious angelic being.
This story first appeared in …
mrkvm rated A Dead Djinn in Cairo: 4 stars
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) …
mrkvm rated Memorial Ride: 3 stars
Memorial Ride by Stephen Graham Jones, Mária Wolf
Memorial Ride is a high-speed, ragtag chase across the American Southwest. Cooper Town, an American Indian soldier, has returned from …
mrkvm rated Station Eleven (Television Tie-In): 4 stars
mrkvm rated The 22 Murders of Madison May: 3 stars
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia …
mrkvm rated The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies: 4 stars
mrkvm rated The changeling: 4 stars
The changeling by Victor D. LaValle
"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared …
mrkvm rated The lesser dead: 4 stars
The lesser dead by Christopher Buehlman
"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most …
mrkvm rated Certain Dark Things: 4 stars
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and …
mrkvm rated The Last House on Needless Street: 5 stars
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end …
mrkvm rated Mexican Gothic: 5 stars
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . …
mrkvm rated The Death of Jane Lawrence: 5 stars
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
Jane Shoringfield sees the world in numbers, patterns, and logical projections, and by her math, she needs one thing above …
mrkvm rated Nothing But Blackened Teeth: 4 stars
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of …