I do love a Kindle, as I’m sure you know by now if you have ever visited this blog before. I think I’ve used at least ten different Ki...

La Vallée Infernale (in Tout Bob Morane 1 , Les Éditions Ananké, ebook, 10,308ll) by Henri Vernes is the first novel in the long-runnin...

In Wonder Woman Unbound (Chicago Review Press, pb, c.322pp), subtitled The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine , Tim Hanle...

Her travel guide to New York having done well, despite a series of supernatural calamities that occurred in the course of its writing, Zoë...

There are few things I find more enjoyable than a Matthew Hughes novel, and it’s a struggle to stop myself gorging on them at the expense ...

Chicago plows dauntlessly into young heroine-driven dystopia subgenre We Chicagoans recently endured one of our worst winters in recorde...

Sorry that things have been so quiet on the TQF blog this year – paying work has been keeping me very busy (can’t and won’t complain!) but...

The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza (First Second, hb/pb, 112pp; Netgalley pdf) is another superb, hilarious comic for children by Jame...

Juvenile, shallow, and highly recommended: Legendary monster romps with angel-gargoyles and suit-wearing demons in Underworld esque advent...

During January I helped out on organising and typesetting #10 of the BFS Journal . It’s one hundred and sixty-eight pages of fantasy fun, ...

We’ve been a bit quiet on here since the beginning of the year, with just the one blog post so far, a review from Douglas, but don’t fear!...

Thugs meet witches as horror dynasty takes it to the hood, and delivers yet again. The first four Paranormal Activity ( PA ) films wer...

Amazing fiction! Insightful reviews! A self-indulgent editorial! Yes, it’s Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #46 ! This issue features alphabeti...

Smaug may desolate, but Legolas steals the show in a superb epic fantasy adventure Ostensibly, The Hobbit film series is about i...

Twenty artists by whom I’ve only ever bought one album (for myself, at least), and in brackets what the album was: Vampire Weekend ( M...

It has been quite a while since I last dipped into the six-story collection Doctor Who: The BBC Radio Episodes . I began with the Jon Pert...

Diablo III (Blizzard Entertainment, Xbox 360; Amazon purchase ) is the first of the series I’ve played, and since I don’t play games on t...

Rarely does a movie outshine the book that inspired it. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire blazes as an exception. Catching Fire , the mid...

Ten things I had no experience and/or knowledge of until I was introduced to them by our much-missed friend Steven Gilligan: Buffalo Tom...

Nexus Omnibus, Vol. 2 (Dark Horse, ebook, 423pp; Dark Horse app purchase ), written by Mike Baron with most artwork by Steve Rude, collec...