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Friday, 20 December 2024

Watch the Signs! Watch the Signs! by Arthur Chappell (Shoreline of Infinity) | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review was originally written in October 2019 for a previous iteration of the British Fantasy Society website. Subtitled “Pub signs re...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Sole Survivor (Bantam) by Dean Koontz

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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, ...
Friday, 13 December 2024

The Last Mimzy | review by Stephen Theaker

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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...
Friday, 6 December 2024

Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints, by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook (Dark Horse) | review by Stephen Theaker

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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...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024

M3GAN | review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Screen time leads to scream time: AI gone haywire tale zeroes in on impact of technological surrogacy on child development. A common restaur...
Friday, 29 November 2024

The Girl from the Sea, by Jessica Rydill (Midford Books) | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review was originally published in December 2019 on an earlier iteration of the British Fantasy Society 's website, and then appear...
Friday, 22 November 2024

Kill or Cure, by Pixie Britton (Matador) | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review was originally written for the previous British Fantasy Society website, and then appeared in TQF65 (December 2019). The firs...
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Wight Christmas: Holiday Horror & Seasonal Subversion, ed. Martin Munks (TDotSpec) | review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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A solid collection of horror stories to ring in the Christmas season. A winter slaughter mars a Kentucky swampland. A murder unfolds at Sant...
Friday, 15 November 2024

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Folio Society) | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review was written in 2020 for the British Fantasy Society's previous website. This reads at first like old-school adventure sf, b...
Friday, 8 November 2024

Agents of Shield, Season 5 | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review originally appeared in TQF64 (March 2019). Daisy Johnson did not go on to appear in Avengers 4, unfortunately. Agents of Shiel...
Friday, 1 November 2024

BFS Journal #18, edited by Allen Stroud (The British Fantasy Society) | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review originally appeared in TQF64 (March 2019). The eighteenth issue of the BFS Journal continues its laudable attempt to turn int...
Thursday, 31 October 2024

#OcTBRChallenge 2024: a fourth and final A to Z of books and audiobooks

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I took part in OcTBRChallenge again this month, and this time I tried to finish off as many of my short books and audiobooks as I could, in...
Sunday, 27 October 2024

#OcTBRChallenge 2024: a third A to Z of books and audiobooks

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I'm taking part in OcTBRChallenge again this month, and this time I'm trying to finish off as many of my short books and audiobooks ...
Friday, 25 October 2024

Kaijumax, Season Two, by Zander Cannon (Oni Press) | review by Stephen Theaker

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This review originally appeared in TQF64 (March 2019). Kaijumax is a prison island for kaiju (giant monsters), a lot like the one in Destr...
Monday, 21 October 2024

Weird Fiction Old, New, and In-Between VII: Appendix – Rafe McGregor

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The seventh of six blog posts exploring the literary and philosophical significance of the weird tale, the occult detective story, and the e...