Twelve speculative fiction short stories and one poem from Africa and the African diaspora. As with all anthologies, there were some stories that appealed to me more than others, but over all there were more hits than misses. I loved the mix of horror, fantasy and science fiction stories in the anthology. I particularly enjoyed… Continue reading Dominion Edited by Zelda Knight
After watching the excellent film, Daniel Isn’t Real, I decided to delve deeper into the world by reading the novel that inspired the movie. Told from the perspective of Daniel, an ‘imaginary friend’, In This Way I Was Saved tells the story of Luke; his manipulative, controlling mother who wears the family eccentricities and mental… Continue reading In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw
Last year I couldn’t get enough of books about Bigfoot, but this year I’m hankering after dinosaurs. Henry Shore, retired New York City cop, is chief ranger at Crater Lake park in Oregon. When volcanic activity reveals dinosaur bones in the park, paleontologist Justin Maltin arrives to study the find. Little do the two men… Continue reading Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
FBI Agent Corrie Swanson and archeologist Nora Kelly team up once again in this gripping thriller. After a sheriff is shot stopping a relic hunter digging up a seventy-five year old corpse in a perfectly preserved abandoned mining town, FBI Agent Corrie Swanson gets assigned the case to determine if the dead body was a… Continue reading The Scorpion’s Tail by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
My second Blackthorn book tours book of the month is an exciting haunted house chiller. About the book Pride and greed infect the soul, anchoring the dead to Gallagher Hotel. When Chris, a master thief, and Riley, a contract waitress, get mysterious invites to an exclusive party at the haunted Gallagher Hotel, they discover that there… Continue reading Book Tour: The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel by K T Rose
