The Reddening, Adam Nevill - a review of new and old horror
I am humbled, both by the fact that Adam Nevill sent me this ARC and that I am mentioned in the acknowledgements. This is a horror author...
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carmillavoiez
Sep 16, 20192 min read
Preacher, Season 4 Episode 8 – wow
I have enjoyed AMC’s Preacher from the beginning. The mix of slapstick, dark comedy and horror makes it about as entertaining as TV...
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carmillavoiez
Sep 4, 20191 min read
Coldheart Canyon, Clive Barker - a review
Coldheart Canyon looks at Hollywood circa 1920s and "present" 1990s. It shows how much the landscape has changed in that time and how...
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carmillavoiez
Aug 17, 20192 min read
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
This week my elder daughter got her A' Level results and wow did she nail them. I picked up this copy of Miller's play from the books she...
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carmillavoiez
Aug 15, 20192 min read
Father of Lies, S. E. England – a review
I am not new to the idea of possession being misdiagnosed as D.I.D. I spoke with Paula Fenn at a seminar last year who works in this...
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carmillavoiez
Aug 9, 20192 min read
Feral, George Monbiot - a review
I first encountered George Monbiot on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. His soliloquy about radical environmentalism excited me so much I...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 24, 20197 min read
Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill - a review and short story
I wrote a short story for my Creative Writing course twelve years ago with the same name and a friend asked me if I had read this book....
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carmillavoiez
May 21, 20192 min read
And the Weak Suffer What They Must, Yanis Varoufakis - a review
I didn’t expect this to be a horror story, but it is. At a time of Brexit and the rise of racism and xenophobia encouraged by its...
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carmillavoiez
May 14, 20192 min read
My Work is Not Yet Done, Thomas Ligotti - a review
“My Work is Not Yet Done” is a collection of one novella and two short stories set in hellish corporate worlds. Ligotti is a bleak writer...
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carmillavoiez
May 6, 20191 min read
Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything
I visited Douglas Adams' grave at Highgate and partook in the tradition of leaving a pen. I'm not sure why that's done by so many. Were...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 25, 20192 min read
Big Machine, Victor Lavalle - a review
“Big Machine” engaged me in ways few books have. In a delightful paradox the end left me satisfied yet full of questions. It’s a weird...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 19, 20192 min read
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson - a review
Although this book was first published in 1962, the idea of two young women protecting each other to the extent of letting others die to...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 11, 20192 min read
Us - movie review
Well I wasn't expecting that! Jordan Peele's "Us" is a superb, violent and frightening film that is highly intelligent, in the tradition...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 5, 20193 min read
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay – a review
“Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.” Briefly, a family of city-dwellers...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 28, 20194 min read
The Formative Power of Brevity – Border - Reading as a Writer
I recently watched a film called Border based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film made me buy the short story collection,...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 28, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Blood Moon
This is my favourite story in the anthology so far. Marlow’s prose is beautiful and sensual. We experience the suffering of Libby, our...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 28, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Aqua Vita
Aqua Vita by A Giacomi is a delightful piece of vampire lore. And though the style should be jarring, it has an elegant rhythm. I cannot...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 27, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - A Mother's Instinct
This anthology came out at the start of February and I am reviewing each of the short stories in turn (excluding my own of course). A...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 23, 20192 min read
Skagboys, Irvine Welsh - a review
Twenty years after the release of Trainspotting in 1993, Irvine Welsh wrote a prequel “Skagboys”. We are introduced to the main...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 20, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews, A Bloody Beginning
The second story in the anthology is "A Bloody Beginning" by Laurencia Hoffman. It's a companion short featuring Melina, a vampire whose...
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