Review of ‘Nine Bar Blues’
The stories in Nine Bar Blues cover a range of genres: horror, magical realism, science fiction, and literary. Whether they have forward momentum or not, Thomas’s prose is reason enough to read.
Review of ‘Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows’
Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows is a brilliant take on classic cosmic horror.
Review of ‘The Law of Lines’
A compelling thriller that uses a familiar story frame to interrogate the way grief shapes our lives.
Review of ‘Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River’
Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River is a free-floating thought experiment with loads of laughs.
Review of ‘Black Forest’
Black Forest is a dream of death, a collage of vignettes and grounded, concrete observations counterpoint the dreaminess of the novel, breathing life into it.
Review of ‘Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror Vol. 1’
Bogged down with bad stories and a misleading title, there is not a lot of Poe in here either, other than to joke about his alcoholism, the anthology is beating a dead horse.
Review of ‘Taaqtumi’
Neil Christopher deftly puts the stories together without editorializing, allowing Inuit writers to tell their own stories about their own culture.
