A brilliant piece of speculative horror! Genuinely mind-bending… I very eagerly anticipate the next piece of art that Sofia Ajram produces!
Titan Books
Review: Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel
Synopsis: Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same […]
Review: A Christmas Ghost Story by Kim Newman
Synopsis: December 1st. Angie and her teenage son Rust prepare for Christmas, stringingfairy lights around their isolated home on the Somerset levels and decorating a treewith traditional ornaments. The first door of the advent calendar is opened, but the chocolate inside tastes off. Rust receives his first Christmas card; it’s unsigned, and the message is […]
Review: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
Diavola is a great ghost story, that really, like most ghost stories, isn’t really about the supernatural, but more about what haunts us without us knowing.
Review: Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
Synopsis: Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, […]
Review: The Narrows by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis: In the aftermath of a terrible storm, the town of Stillwater, Maryland tries to recover what it has lost. From flooded roads and houses, to ruined businesses—the residents of the town begin to clean up and return to normal. In the midst of the clear up, people begin to see things. Matthew Crawly spies […]
Review: At Dark I Become Loathsome by Eric Larocca
Synopsis: “If you’re reading this, you’ve likely thought that the world would be a better place without you.” A single line of text, glowing in the darkness of the internet. Written by Ashley Lutin, who has often thought the same–and worse–in the years since his wife died and his young son disappeared. But the peace […]
Review: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Synopsis: The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to halt Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic […]
Review: Where The Dead Brides Gather by Nuzo Onoh
Synopsis: Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin’s door. Her cousin is to get married the next morning, but only if she can escape the murderous attack of a ghost-bride, who used to be engaged to her groom. A supernatural possession helps Bata […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 123: Modernity & Building Believable Futures with T. R. Napper (Mini-Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Modernity & Building Believable Futures with award-winning author T. R. Napper. During the episode, Tim unpacks the complexities of modernity, exploring what modernity is, its relationships with hardboiled fiction and cyberpunk, confronting modernity in real life, relevancy and genre expectations, worldbuilding and crafting believable futures, thematic resonance, historical context fact vs. fiction and more.
SFF Addicts Ep. 122: T. R. Napper talks The Escher Man, Cyberpunk, Memory & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author T. R. Napper about his new novel The Escher Man, living abroad and cultural immersion, balancing parenting and writing, cyberpunk and Australia, memory and technology, the creative process and philosophy, writing in the Aliens universe, trunked novels, unreliable narrators and much more.
Review: All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper
Synopsis: What really happened to Cabrina Brite? Ivory’s life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning, along with a mysterious poem. How did she die, and why does it seem she was trying to swim to Ghost Cat Island, the center of so many local mysteries? […]