Sometimes you are lucky enough to read exactly the right book at the right time. This was the case with "The Night Brother" and me. It...

Anyone who knows me knows I have an interest in both magic and women’s rights, making me the ideal audience for this historical analysis...

I think Victor Lavalle sums up perfectly the intent of this novella in its dedication - “For H.P. Lovecraft, with all my conflicted...

The most unique aspect of this book is the breadth and length of the collection. At 750,000 words it’s about the length of ten novels and...

Disclaimer – I love Iain Banks. I love his spare use of vividly evocative description. Wasp Factory is one of my favourite reads of all...

Wow! Just wow! This is a collection of short stories and academic essays inspired by the writings of Thomas Ligotti and pessimistic...

“The Ruins” is the story of a group of Europeans who arrive in a hostile alien environment where the rules are very different and...

I have been really lucky this year and have read some wonderful books, but this book is my favourite so far. I came across it while...

As you would expect from a collection of short stories from the author of “Ring”, “Dark Water” by Koji Suzuki is a creepy read. Seven...

I’m ashamed to admit that this was the first book by Michael McDowell that I’ve read. I asked friends and followers on Facebook to make...

This is the second book by Rosie Garland that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed both. They would be best described as dark fairy...

The forward to this novel was fascinating in its own right. Toni Morrison describes how black fiction is unfairly judged on the basis of...

I was given the hardback version of this book as a birthday present. It is beautiful to behold, shining like copper and looking like a...

I loved this book. I am a fan of Sarah Waters, but even so this is my favourite book of hers I've read so far, even though there was a...

Ramsey Campbell wrote the first horror novel that I fell in love with. I was a teenager when I first read that one and it stayed with me....

In order to write well, one needs to read. The pressure on writers to produce a huge back catalogue if they are to have any chance to...

Too often we encounter a thing of beauty at the wrong time in our lives and its layers of splendour and meaning are lost on us. Yesterday...

Magic and perception are two of my special interests, so this book might easily have been written for me. As well as providing an...

What to say about this book? Well the first thing to say was I almost didn't finish it. Parts of it made me spit with fury. Schopenhauer...

“Free Women of Spain” by Martha Ackelsberg made me consider my own relationship towards mainstream feminism or white liberal feminism,...