Monthly Archives: February 2022

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #36:- TRAMPOLINE Edited by Kelly Link Small Beer Press pb, 336pp, $17 An acclaimed writer of short stories, Kelly Link is also the co-editor of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and this … Continue reading →

My favourite piece by Tchaikovsky:-

This post follows on Books Read in 2001 which I posted back at the start of last December. And for 2002 I read a grand total of 118 books, a decrease of seven on 2001’s total. Plenty of writers I … Continue reading →

With the tag line ‘Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights’, and released in time to catch the Halloween/Christmas markets, The Haunting Season was the last book I read in 2021. With no named editor, it’s a collection of eight longish … Continue reading →

The Foo Fighters move into a haunted mansion to record their next album… This sounds (and looks) crazy enough to work.

I discovered Syd Moore by accident – she’s not a name that’s widely known in horror circles, and more’s the pity. While browsing the shelves in Waterstones in search of something Christmas themed and in the horror/crime line, I stumbled … Continue reading →

A splash of brilliance from Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony.

Over on the Case Notes blog at the start of the month I reviewed Calling the Spirits by Lisa Morton, so to complement that review here’s a discussion of one of her fiction collections. Monsters of L. A. is a … Continue reading →

Well this is out on the 18th of February in the US, but I don’t know about the UK. It looks pretty good though, and there’s nothing else particularly interesting listed for this week.

Lock Me In by Kate Simants is another book I acquired in a three for a fiver deal at The Works. I may even have snagged it in tandem with last Monday’s suitable case for treatment, The Family. Ellie Powers … Continue reading →