The Twisted Ones Is the Scariest Book of the Year (and Maybe a Lot Longer than That)
I’ve been a dedicated reader of horror novels since I was in elementary school. A sad result of my overexposure…
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Powers the Resistance in Sarah Pinsker’s A Song For A New Day
When I was a teenager, I fought tooth and nail with my parents to go to rock concerts. I couldn’t…
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens Is the Apocalyptic Novel We Need Right Now
There is no better time in history than right now for Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 novel Good Omens to…
The Umbrella Academy Makes a Perfectly Improbable Leap from Page to Screen
The Umbrella Academy unfurled on Netflix earlier this month, spreading itself out on our screens with bombast. Based on the quirky…
Punk Rock Prose Powers Supernatural Rocker Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You
In addition to being a book geek with a collection of unread sci-fi and fantasy tomes large enough to crush…
Magic, Romance, and Bicycle Chases in Witchmark, C.L. Polk’s Enchanting Debut
Witchmark is C.L. Polk’s debut, a graceful, smartly written novel set in Aeland, a lightly magical fantasy world modeled on…
12 Fantasy Heist Novels
There are genre tropes, and then there are those archetypes that are mainstays of not just science fiction and fantasy,…
Ranking The Dresden Files
Ever since he blew onto the scene in 2000, Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden has helped to redefine what we think…
11 Fictional Band from Sci-Fi & Fantasy That Will Rock Your World
Summer music festival season is here! Time to grab some cheap lawn tickets, chill out on a blanket, and listen…
Spend Easter Fools’ Day on a Madcap Adventure with Christopher Moore
The convergence of Easter and April Fools’ Day is a rare event—the last time it happened was all the way…
6 Fantasy Parties That Would Give Mardi Gras a Run for Its Money
Today is Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, it’s a day of excess before the Catholic…
10 Side Characters Who Deserve Their Own Stories
There is a common practice in romance novels that I think science fiction and fantasy authors would do well to…
Kim Newman Talks the Bloody Good Anno Dracula Graphic Novel
Kim Newman is at it again. Back To Top
10 Retold Tales Featuring the Figures of Classic Victorian Horror
Today is Bram Stoker’s 170th birthday, so it seems as perfect a time as ever revisit some of our oldest…
A Song for Quiet Is a Mournful Lovecraftian Fantasy That Never Misses a Note
There has been a movement of late to reexamine the problematic legacy of H.P. Lovecraft, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos.…
The Guns Above Is a Gritty, Rollicking Reinvention of Steampunk
If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s a good steampunk novel. It’s a tricky genre to get…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett died in 2015, but he will forever number among the greatest fantasy writers of the last century. His…
Feeling Series Fatigue? Here Are 10 Standalone Urban Fantasy Novels
There is a certain kind of dread that comes from learning that book you were jazzed to read is actually…
7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
American Gods is poised to become one of TV’s biggest hits later this month. Of course, fantasy readers already know that…
8 Books with That Buffy Flavor, in Honor of 20 Years of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It’s the 20th anniversary of one of the most groundbreaking genre shows in the history of television, Buffy the Vampire…