The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville, Picador, paperback, £9.00, 23 February 2017, ISBN 9781447296553 China Miéville has been p...

A quick note to apologise to everyone who has sent in submissions for issues 78 to 81 and is waiting for me to do my bit. The magazine isn...

Midnight, Water City by Chris McKinney, Soho Press, paperback, £13.79, 15 July 2021, ISBN 9781641293686   Chris McKinney’s career as an ...

Figging and maniacal ghosts: horror/thriller uses well-developed characters and strong plotting to bring life to haunted house trope. Everyb...

‘The Terror of Blue John Gap’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Conan Doyle Weirdbook: Five Novelettes Comprising Doyle’s Essential Horror edi...

Young adult novel hides sexual and physical abuse within a bubble gum wrapper of tarot cards, costume parties, kissing and witches. The Acci...

Stupid. Ridiculous. Brilliant. This collection alternates stories between comedy horror masters J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand, then culminate...

McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon (editor) McSweeney’s #10 , Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, paperback, £...

Novella mixes grieving mother with giddy maniac and turns up the heat. Emily, whose relationship with her husband has soured after the loss ...

This review originally appeared in  TQF73  (April 2023). Far in our future, long after a nuclear apocalypse, the effects of which were leave...

This little review originally appeared on Goodreads in February 2023, but is otherwise previously unpublished. The twelfth Doctor has epic ...

This review was originally written in October 2019 for a previous iteration of the British Fantasy Society website. Subtitled “Pub signs re...

An entertaining read… if you can survive the onslaught of details. A year after his wife and two daughters are killed in an airplane crash, ...

This review originally appeared in TQF17 (June 2007). I didn’t really enjoy The X-Files until the second season (though later I went back...

This short review previously appeared in TQF67 (July 2020). Teenage Emmy lives on a farm, close to the tree where the townsfolk killed a b...

Screen time leads to scream time: AI gone haywire tale zeroes in on impact of technological surrogacy on child development. A common restaur...

This review was originally published in December 2019 on an earlier iteration of the British Fantasy Society 's website, and then appear...

This review was originally written for the previous British Fantasy Society website, and then appeared in TQF65 (December 2019). The firs...

A solid collection of horror stories to ring in the Christmas season. A winter slaughter mars a Kentucky swampland. A murder unfolds at Sant...

This review was written in 2020 for the British Fantasy Society's previous website. This reads at first like old-school adventure sf, b...