Things Withered by Susie Moloney. Book review by Rebecca Lloyd Posted on November 23, 2014 by craiglockley in Reviews for the British Fantasy Society THINGS WITHERED by Susie Moloney, ChiZine Publications, p/b £13.56, Kindle £4.99 Reviewed by Rebecca Lloyd Susie Moloney is a new find for me and each story in this collection is very different.… Continue Reading
There are 22 stories in Ken MacGregor’s ‘Aberrant Mind,’ published by Sirens Call Publications. Some are only a page or two long, others a deal longer. A number of the stories are very visceral, and as such will appeal to many readers. Ken likes monsters; they appear often in this book, and in a range… Continue Reading
I resisted the idea of buying a Kindle for a long time, but in trains and buses I used to stare with some fascination at other people reading on them. I liked the idea that you could pack a whole bunch of books into a tiny electronic and unobtrusive device and take it away on… Continue Reading
Paul St John Mackintosh found this wonderful quote from Robert Aickman who many bats who live in the same cave as I do, know and love. What struck me about it was that it’s very relevant today in the world of social media in which some writers thrive and others struggle:- ‘It seem to me… Continue Reading
Culling Mynahs and Crows, is a gritty, honest and uncompromising novel. There are some moments of high drama and some of tenderness, and a couple of places where shocking things happen, one the result of the fact that one of the main characters, Agnirekha, regards men with ‘chilling contempt.’ Yet, while it is a dramatic… Continue Reading
Although I’m not in the habit of entering writing contests much, I know a lot of writers do enter them regularly and I’ve noticed a couple of things about some contests that are quite disturbing, and this includes the better known ones. The least worrying of these elements, but still something to take note of,… Continue Reading
Phillip Clement has written a review for The View From Endless Street that really made me feel enlivened. He wrote it for Krishan Coupland’s magazine Neon and it can be seen here and also on the reviews page of this website. http://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/?p=5144#comment-47718
KEVIN BARRY’S DELICIOUS WRITING. Thank you Farah Ahamed for finding another of Kevin Barry’s fantastic stories. His writing is so beautiful. Hares in the Old Plantation: a short story by Kevin Barry http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/10/hares-old-plantation-short-story-kevin-barry Listen – There’s a lock-in at the Connaught Arms, and every melodious old soak in town is inside the place, wall-eyed with… Continue Reading
REVIEW OF SHADOWS AND TALL TREES ANTHOLOGY 6. What I always dread when reading dark stories is that I’ll be confronted with the true horror in fiction writing – clichés. So it was great not to be waylaid by any among the seventeen strange tales in this anthology. There are haunted houses, to be sure,… Continue Reading
I love this:- From the moment that the undertaker “undertakes” the funeral arrangements, he assumes an implied professional responsibility for the safe keeping of the body. This is the origin of the now obsolete practice of posting one or more of his miserable minions on the front doorstep of the house of mourning. Assuming that… Continue Reading
