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Reap the East Wind An Ill Fate Marshalling A Path to Coldness of Heart Somehow, and I’m not sure how it happened, I managed not to read Glen Cook’s second Dread Empire Trilogy back in the day. I did read the first trilogy, with great enthusiasm. Indeed, A Shadow of All Night Falling may . . . → Read More: Glen Cook: The Second Dread Empire Trilogy and lend a hand with an update. There’s a few things in the hopper worth your time, I think. First up, a fun little book from Glen Cook. Fun? you say? From Glen Cook? Yep. Take a look at Sung in Blood to see what I mean. Ever hear of MI37? Thought not. There’s . . . → Read More: Thought I’d Pop Over Welcome back to Nekropolis, that strange and deadly extra-dimensional city where all of the dark things dwell. In a city where the dead walk, monsters skulk, and magic blends with technology to create new and bizarre results, there’s only one man you can depend on: Matt Richter, zombie PI. Matt’s one of the few . . . → Read More: Tim Waggoner: Dark War Low Town sets up shop in the fantasy noir neighborhood established by Glen Cook with his Garrett, P.I. novels and developed further in recent years by Joe Abercrombie, Richard K. Morgan and the like. Grim, gritty and utterly devoid of poetry, elves and quests against hypothetical Dark Lords, Low Town is instead a straight-up . . . → Read More: Daniel Polansky: Low Town 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 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 Just in time for the holidays, The Fat Man aims to be this year’s stocking stuffer for readers of a noir persuasion. A festive murder mystery set at the North Pole, it even comes complete with its own two thirds sized Marlowe, of sorts. Gumdrop Coal is one of Santa’s more cynical elves, but . . . → Read More: Ken Harmon: The Fat Man My new favourite Welshman, Jasper Fforde, presents his sophomore effort in the Nursery Crimes detective series. The novel starts out strongly. After a brief first chapter describing a mysterious event (like the teaser trailer before the opening credits in a crime show), we jump into a hilarious stakeout situation with all our old NCD . . . → Read More: Jasper Fforde: The Fourth Bear You may be familiar with Fforde’s previous (and ongoing) Thursday Next detective series, starring the detective of the same name, whose specialty is crimes of a “literary nature”. The Big Over Easy marks the beginning of the Nursery Crimes series, a slight departure, though still well in the same quirky neighbourhood that Fforde’s chosen . . . → Read More: Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy |
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