X’s for Eyes – Laird Barron
A pulp-adventure yarn with a strong Lovecraftian theme, with disciples of black gods and rival corporations chasing after industrialist scions Mac and Dred Tooms.
Tag Archives: 2015
The Harlequin – Nina Allan
Dennis Beaumont returns home to London after the Great War ends, lost in a haze of memories and trauma, haunted by his attempt to save a wounded soldier in the fields of France.
Speak Easy – Catherynne M. Valente
A retelling of the “12 Dancing Princesses” folktale by way of Zelda Fitzgerald and jazz age opulence, descending down a hotel speak-easy into the realm of faerie.
Wylding Hall – Elizabeth Hand
The surviving members of a ’70s acid-folk band relive their strange days at Wylding Hall for a modern-day documentary, retelling the strange disappearance of their lead singer.
Pale in Death – Ed Brock
His past had come calling, dropping by unexpectedly, in the shape of an officially unidentified female body left like garbage …
Child of Space – E.C. Tubb
The scientists of the experimental Moonbase One realize they are on a collision course with a strange meteorite, a discovery that will tear their tranquil world asunder…
The Monstrous – Ellen Datlow, ed.
A collection of twenty stories dealing with the monstrous. Stories by Peter Straub, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jeffrey Ford, Gardner Dozois, Adam Nevill, Brian Hodge, Stephen Graham Jones, and others.
Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson
A return to Hutchison’s balkanized Europe, a near-future police procedural that follows two narratives that converge at an alternate universe.
Dark Screams Vol. 5
The latest volume in the Dark Screams series, featuring stories by Mick Garris, Bentley Little, J. Kenner, Del James, and Kealan Patrick Burke.
I Am Crying All Inside – The Complete Clifford D. Simak, Vol. 1
By the time he was named the third Science Fiction Grand Master in 1977, Clifford D. Simak had already been …
Three Moments of an Explosion – China Miéville
A massive collection of China Mieville’s short fiction, totaling 28 stories such as: “The Dowager of Bees,” “Säcken,” “After the Festival,” “Polynia,” and others.
