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Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a …
And here we come to the promised attempts to stop the Apocalypse of the Month. Loving the banter, Hines is really great at getting you into the relationship between Jenny, Annette, and Temple
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a …
So Annette is a French half-succubus, Jenny is a former magical girl savior, and Temple is the latest generation wizard from a long line with a connection to this sentient house/bookstore.
I'm in.
So Annette is a French half-succubus, Jenny is a former magical girl savior, and Temple is the latest generation wizard from a long line with a connection to this sentient house/bookstore.
I'm in.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a …
Got this one through Netgalley. Was so excited when approval came. Jim C. Hines has been one of my favorite writers since I stumbled into a signing one pay day and picked up all the Libriomancer books.
The Buffy X Golden Girls comp just sold it EVEN MORE
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, …
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, …
Algernon Blackwood wrote six John Silence stories, featuring his physician who has undergone spiritual and psychic training and only takes cases pro Bono when they really interest him.
And really, only four of the six stories really feature Dr. Silence beyond a mere framing moment.
The stories themselves were really interesting though. Each presents a different problem, like a haunted house, a marauding spirit, and Dr. Silence comes in with his disdain for violence and tries to apply his psychology-esque treatment to solve the problem.
Honestly, really enjoyed the doctor as detective here and wish more of the later works inspired by it had kept more of the non-police feel of this early work.
These stories definitely had a lot of weird and I'm really wanting more occult detective now.
These stories definitely had a lot of weird and I'm really wanting more occult detective now.
Okay, what is up with the creepy teachers in Secret Worship?
Ancient Sorceries was great, loved the cat phrases. Nemesis of Fire is not disappointing with fire.
Finished the first novella of the batch, really enjoying the character and definitely seeing a proto-Mulder where Dr. Silence went through some sort of training where he just knows Paranormal stuff and wants to help.
Good haunted house story for the first.
I really enjoyed The House on the Borderland. It features a double frame narrative featuring a manuscript from some guys who find a manuscript about an old man living in a house out in the woods where some creepy stuff starts happening.
As the story goes on, those creepy phenomena get weirder and more cosmic in scale. It has just a great milieu to sit through, if you're in the mood for sitting with atmospheric horror.
I really enjoyed The House on the Borderland. It features a double frame narrative featuring a manuscript from some guys who find a manuscript about an old man living in a house out in the woods where some creepy stuff starts happening.
As the story goes on, those creepy phenomena get weirder and more cosmic in scale. It has just a great milieu to sit through, if you're in the mood for sitting with atmospheric horror.
Alex Keane
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Translation and Taste
Learning how to have good taste means learning to translate.
By Blake Smith
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/translation-and-taste
And now I get why the contemporary name for cosmic horror was "weird fiction" because that's definitely an apt name for the last couple chapters of cosmic scale timeliness.
And now I get why the contemporary name for cosmic horror was "weird fiction" because that's definitely an apt name for the last couple chapters of cosmic scale timeliness.
