Ever since we figured out how to bring people back from the dead, humanity has divided itself into two kinds: the livebloods, and the zombies (also known as chakz, a corrupted form of charqui, or jerky.) As you can imagine, chakz don’t exactly have it easy. Few laws protect them, they tend to break . . . → Read More: Stefan Petrucha: Dead Mann Walking
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Now that all the feasting and merrymaking is winding down, we’ve got some nice reading lined up for you for those cold winter night still ahead. Let’s start with an old favorite of ours here at GMR, Steven Brust, and his latest tale of Vlad Taltos, Tiassa. It’s about — well, a tiassa. Or . . . → Read More: And a Happy New Year to You, Too! It is difficult to think of an American ghost story more well-known than that of Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Though Irving’s original sources for the stories may have been local folklore based on the same stories which the Grimm Brothers would collect and publish back in the Old World, . . . → Read More: Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow In honor of horror’s favorite month, the Horror Writers Association has launched a special month-long blog schedule featuring work by many of its members We have a terrific line-up of posts, art, and some great prizes to run the entire month of October. Throughout the month, we’ll be giving away books and e-books, and on . . . → Read More: HWA launches Halloween Haunts (Press Release) Got ghost problems? You’re in luck. The intrepid agents of the Carnacki Institute will investigate. They’ll do whatever’s necessary to take care of the problem, from convincing the ghost it’s time to move on, to kicking its sorry ectoplasmic ass. Their best team is a three-person operation, capable of handling any problem. There’s JC . . . → Read More: Simon R. Green: Ghost of a Chance Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison® first appeared in the mid-1970s. I’m sure I must have read them then — I was quite assiduously following the break-through writers of the British and American New Waves, as well as those feminist writers who were pushing the thematic boundaries of the genre — but I don’t remember . . . → Read More: Harlan Ellison®: Deathbird Stories Note: For those of you who have not read the previous Dresden Files novel, Changes, this review is one big spoiler – no way to avoid it. Go ahead and get caught up on the series, then come back and check this one out; you’ll be glad you did! So, you’ve stamped out a worldwide vampire . . . → Read More: Jim Butcher: Ghost Story Bob Howard works for the Laundry, a top-secret British organization formally known as the Department of Internal Logistics. His job: to help protect the world from things so unnatural, so bizarre, so nasty, even knowing about them could destroy a man’s brain. They’re the ones who deal with mad scientists, Elder Gods, other dimensions, . . . → Read More: Charles Stross: The Jennifer Morgue While Joan Aiken’s Wolves of Willoughby Chase series has remained popular since her death in 2004, perhaps becoming even more popular due to its vaguely steampunk and alternate Victorian timeline, Aiken’s short story collections have mostly fallen out of print, becoming ever more scarce as the original books from the 1970s and 1980s slowly . . . → Read More: Joan Aiken: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories In this anthology edited by Ellen D Datlow, the gritty realism of noir embraces the nightmare imaginings of supernatural horror in order to offer up sixteen stories rich in style, shadows, and psychological complexity. Defining the genre of noir remains a tricky business–ask half a dozen noir fans what noir is, and you’ll probably . . . → Read More: Ellen Datlow (editor): Supernatural Noir |
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