By Stewart Sternberg, on July 4th, 2010
Classics of the horror genre, while offering wonderfully chilling reading experiences, also provide lessons for writers of all genres.
I became interested in Rosemary’s Baby perhaps because Ira Levin’s work illustrates for novelists how to deliver detail while keeping a story moving. Be warned if you’re somehow unaware of the twist ending, spoilers lie ahead.
. . . → Read More: Rosemary’s Baby Revisited (The Rosemary Effect) by Sidney Williams
By Christine Purcell, on May 26th, 2010
Fathom
By Cherie Priest
Tor Hardcover/384 pages
$25.95
ISBN: 9780765318404
Release Date: December 2008
Recently Cherie Priest’s book The Boneshaker has received a lot of attention. Many genre fans have read and enjoyed their copy only to be left with a sense of “now what?”
Why not give another of Priest’s works a . . . → Read More: Book Review: Fathom
By Chris Welch, on May 24th, 2010
The Girls with Games of Blood
By Alex Bledsoe
Tor /Trade Paperback, 304 pages
$14.99 US/$17.99 CAN
ISBN 978-0-7653-6161-5
Release date: July 2010
Alex Bledsoe’s 2009 novel Blood Groove is perhaps one of the most over-looked and most under-appreciated vampire novels of the last ten years. The sequel to that novel, The Girls . . . → Read More: Book Review: The Girls with Games of Blood