• Book Review: Crowman by David Rae

    Book Review: Crowman by David Rae

    Stylistic, symbolic and absorbing, Crowman takes you to a dark fantasy world where the sun is held captive in a box. Utas, a textile trader, is fleeing from the city of the sun with his near comatose daughter, Alaba. The dark lord, Vatu, who holds the sun in a box and only lets it shine…

  • Book Review: Door and Other Twisted Tales by Catherine McCarthy

    Book Review: Door and Other Twisted Tales by Catherine McCarthy

    Whether it’s a character in Neil Gaimen’s “Neverwhere“, or Issac Asimov’s glimpse into a possible future, doors are fascinating portals into unknown worlds. That is what this collection of dark short stories is all about. What if our world was full of portals to other dimensions, and beings have been using them to enter our…

  • Book Review: Widow by Rob Bliss

    Book Review: Widow by Rob Bliss

    A literary retelling of the three little pigs, “Widow” is not your childhood fairy-tale. Joan, and her little boy, Joseph, move to the city after the death of her pig farmer husband. However, after a monstrous force destroys her house of bricks, the mother and son find themselves in the woods looking for a new…