Category: Book Reviews
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Horror Classics – Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Written in 1983 and adapted into a movie in 1989, Pet Sematary is by any standard one of the more frightening books I ever put my hands on.…
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Horror Classics – The Fog by James Herbert
I read this novel (to be precise, and oddly enough, in its French edition) long time ago. I don’t remember what I thought at that…
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Book Review – The Lives of Tao, by Wesley Chu
That SF is becoming less anglocentric is an exciting and much-welcomed novelty, and I’m not talking here (just) about language, but also culture and…
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Book Review: The Martian – Andy Weir
Reviewing The Martian is not an easy task, for a series of reasons. The most important is that there has been a lot of hype around…
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Classic ghost stories – M. R. James
I am not a great fan of supernatural per se, I have to say, and my favourite horror stories have generally a scientific explanation…
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Dangerous visions – a controversial SF anthology
In 1967, Harlan Ellison put together a short-story anthology titled Dangerous Visions. Mildly put, this collection made history and “almost single-handedly [it] changed the…
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BloodLight: The Apocalypse of Robert Goldner. A review
There are two things about this odd yet fascinating book worth mentioning straight away. The first is that, albeit featuring a seventeen-year old boy,…
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Guest post. City of Bones, City of Ashes – A review
This is a guest post by Chango (for contributing posts here have a look at this). The original version of these two book reviews,…
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Let the right one in – by John Ajvide Lindqvist. A review.
Vampires, we know, are a popular brand at least since John Polidori’s Lord Ruthven, allegedly inspired by Lord Byron during a fateful night at Villa Diodati I have…
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Fiefdom, by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent. A review
Approaching the second instalment of a story without reading what comes first is never recommended, for obvious reasons, and this advice is even more…
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Zombification, a first-hand report. I Zombie I by JacK Wallen
Last weekend I decided I needed a few hours of distraction. Zombie stories always looked to me a good pick, because even when they are bad,…
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Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. A review.
When I asked the editor (Pan Macmillan) through Netgalley for a copy of Station Eleven – in exchange of a honest review, as usual –…
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Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes: a review
It’s a given: on paper, this new book of Lauren Beukes is not one I would read. Mystery and thrillers I can do if…
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Book Review: The Shadow Master, by Craig Cormick
I have to admit the reason why I have requested the The Shadow Master, by Craig Cormick, in ARC is that I read so…
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Seven Modern Plagues by Mark Jerome Walters
Seven Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, by the journalist, academic and veterinarian Mark Jerome Walters, is the updated version of his famous…
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Close Reach by Jonathan Moore – A review
(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Random House, through Netgalley.) Being a Bram Stocker Award nominee and portraying an adventure on…
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Book Review: Morningside Fall, by Jay Posey
(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Angry Robot Books, through Netgalley.) Morningside Fall, by Jay Posey, is what you can call…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I…
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A fascinating tale of unearthly violence and urban horror: Ladies Night, by Jack Ketchum.
Warning: This is a R-Rating book. Unsuitable for YAs and anybody with a delicate stomach – it’s extremely graphic, to say the least. However, it…
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Guest Post: Firelight – The Rebel, by Sophie Jordan. Book Review
What follows is a guest post (for info about how to contribute posts to this page, please look up at Guest Area Section). The original version…
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When Foucault’s Pendulum meets Men in Black – The Descent by Ken Macleod. A book review
When a book starts like The Descent does, with the protagonist blaming himself to be a stalker, pervert, drug-addict, conspiracy theorist, and “fuck it.…
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The new zombie’s canon: Word War Z, by Max Brooks – book review
It has been rightly affirmed that the World War Z book and the movie share two things in common, the name, and the fact they were…
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Zombies, Reloaded / 2 – Apocalypse Z by Manuel Loureiro
It was by mistake that I stumbled upon Apocalypse Z. I was actually searching for Max Brooks’ Word War Z – I heard about…
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Zombies, Reloaded – The (new) zombie wave / 1
If you have the impression that the world is about to be gobbled up raw in a frenzy of bleeding body parts by hordes…