Bookshots: 'The Age of Reinvention' by Karine Tuil
Review by Ed Sikov December 8, 2015
A review of a well-regarded new French novel.
Bookshots: 'Drawing Blood' by Molly Crabapple
Review by Brian McGackin
In which our intrepid writer offers up perhaps the most unhelpful review ever.
Bookshots: 'Wolf Winter' by Cecilia Ekbäck
Review by Stephanie Bonjack
Swedish Lapland, 1717. A Finnish family leaves the shores of their country for a remote Swedish farm. When a body is discovered, paranoia and strange, inexplicable events soon follow.
Bookshots: ‘The Angel of Highgate’ by Vaughn Entwistle
Review by Dean Fetzer
The ‘wickedest man in London’, the current Lord Thraxton, becomes obsessed with a dark angel he finds haunting Highgate Cemetery.
Bookshots: 'Sour Candy' by Kealan Patrick Burke
Review by Christopher Shultz
A man's simple existence becomes a nightmare when a strange child enters his life...
Bookshots: 'The Man Who Spoke Snakish' by Andrus Kivirähk
Review by Freddie Moore
A look inside Andrus Kivirähk ‘s first English translated novel.
Bookshots: 'The Pleasure Merchant' By Molly Tanzer
Review by Keith Rawson November 17, 2015
A brief review of 'The Pleasure Merchant' By Molly Tanzer.
Bookshots: 'The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer' by Unni Turrettini
Review by Cath Murphy
Mystery unsolved.
Bookshots: 'The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition' by Neil Gaiman
Review by Chris Rosales
"The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition" will be released November 11th in comic shops and November 17th in bookstores.
Bookshots: ‘Safe Inside the Violence’ by Christopher Irvin
Review by Dean Fetzer
A new collection by a new master of the noir short story.
Bookshots: 'The Subterranean Season' by Dale Bailey
Review by Christopher Shultz
How is a sociopath made? Dale Bailey explores this question as well as this country's higher learning problem in his latest novel.
Bookshots: 'Broken Sleep' by Bruce Bauman
Review by BH Shepherd
A concise review of "Broken Sleep" by Bruce Bauman.
Bookshots: 'The Black Tongue' by Marko Hautala
Review by Leah Dearborn
Envision bits of 'The Ring', the Brothers Grimm, and Gillian Flynn rolled together, and that comes close to the impression left by 'The Black Tongue'. It's a little strange, but it appears to work.
Bookshots: 'Numero Zero' by Umberto Eco
Review by Ed Sikov November 3, 2015
A review of the new novel by the famed semiotician.
Bookshots: 'Made to Kill' by Adam Christopher
Review by BH Shepherd
A brief review of 'Made to Kill' by Adam Christopher.
Bookshots: 'The Monstrous' edited by Ellen Datlow
Column by Richard Thomas
Electrifying tales that redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives.
Bookshots: 'Slade House' by David Mitchell
Review by Chris Rosales October 26, 2015
Review of the new novel 'Slade House' by David Mitchell, the New York Times Bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas.
Bookshots: 'Welcome to Night Vale' by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Review by Max Booth III
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Bookshots: ‘Savage Lane’ By Jason Starr
Review by Keith Rawson
A brief review of noirist Jason Starr's 16th novel, 'Savage Lane'.
Bookshots: 'Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe' by Thomas Ligotti
Review by Christopher Shultz
The first two groundbreaking collections from Thomas Ligotti get the Penguin Classics paperback treatment.
Bookshots: 'The Rim of Morning' by William Sloane
Review by Cath Murphy
Stephen King thinks these reissued horror novellas from the 1930s are remarkable. So do I.
Bookshots: 'Bats of the Republic' by Zachary Thomas Dodson
Review by Leah Dearborn
After The Collapse, society has slowly rebuilt itself into an alternate reality where blood and heredity reign.
Bookshots: 'Dark Screams: Volume Five' edited by Richard Chizmar and Brian James
Review by Christopher Shultz
The fifth installment of the Dark Screams series serves up horror tales from Mick Garris, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Bentley Little.