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Along with my list of books read, I keep a list of particularly excellent quotes from those books, insights or particularly poetic turns of phrase that I know I’ll want to revisit. I don’t…
Read story ↗Perhaps it’s the times, or perhaps it’s my specific brand of pessimism, which I don’t wish on anyone, but A Prayer for the Crown-Shy made me sad. Not tragically so, and not also without…
Read story ↗Good horror is scary, but great horror is tender. It does not always speak at a scream, but tells you, very softly but very firmly, what is about to happen. It does not gloat,…
Read story ↗I confess that I had never read "The Fall of the House of Usher" until What Moves the Dead came out. (Other Poe, yes, but I prefer his poetry.) But I could not in…
Read story ↗Dolly Parton, a woman who we can all agree is unequivocally herself (and her best self, at that), once advised to "find out who you are and do it on purpose." I mention this…
Read story ↗I realized part of the way through A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow's follow-up to her 2021 A Spindle Splintered, that this was only sort of taking its inspiration from portal fantasy. Its true parentage,…
Read story ↗“The crew of the Rosebud are, currently, and by force of law, a balloon, a goth with a swagger stick, some sort of science aristocrat possibly, a ball of hands, and a swarm of…
Read story ↗With the news lately and the general condition of the world, I don't think it's any surprise to see the argument in fiction that the monsters are us. J. M. Miro, whose fantasy debut…
Read story ↗Being alive, my grandfather always said, is not for cowards. Neither is being dead, according to Isaac Fellman, who in his sophomore novel Dead Collections explores the life of a vampire struggling to reconcile…
Read story ↗Pages 114 and 264. Those are the only two spots I stopped in Book of Night, the first because I fell asleep mid-page, and the second because I was pissed at the universe. Book…
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