Zombies wouldn't really be that big a threat in the Star Trek universe – they're basically disorganised, disconnected, weaponless Bo...

What Will Come After is a collection of very literary zombie stories – and one excellent play – from Scott Edelman. The stories aren't ...

Reading and reviewing The Translation of Father Torturo , with its themes of Catholicism and amorality, left me fancying a little Gide, and ...

Father Xaviero Torturo is, like many of the protagonists in Connell's later collection Unpleasant Tales , a man obsessed with change, th...

Denis, Denis! It's probably obvious that many of the non-review items on this blog began life as Facebook or forum posts that got a b...

Like almost everyone else, I loved episode one of The Walking Dead. So why haven't I got around to watching episode two yet? For that ma...

It's been a long time coming, but finally it's here! Unfortunately there are no female contributors to this issue, as previously d...

Amanda Rutter of Floor to Ceiling Books has admitted being paid to blog  about Steven Erikson's Malazan books for Tor.com. The posts o...

Peter Tennant, having read literally thousands of anthologies for the latest review column in Black Static , has produced a fascinating ana...

Issue 16 of the The Paperback Fanatic arrived a few weeks ago. It's one of my favourite magazines, and this is another excellent issue,...

Professor Albert Taylor leads an informal team of paranormal investigators. "Granted," he says, "there's been a lot of ho...

Yesterday I blogged about my realisation of how few of my print books I've been reading lately . The last time I read a print novel that...

I was thinking this morning about buying the new collection of short stories by Johnny Mains, With Deepest Sympathy , from Obverse Books. It...

During the Terror, animals became human-sized and gained the power of speech – not to mention the intelligence to make that power useful. Ha...

The Doctor is reunited with a much older Jamie McCrimmon, who has forgotten all their previous adventures together – which is strange, since...