Tag: book-review

Guest Article – Wizard Pranks in Wizard School – David Flin

“Today on The Scifi and Fantasy Reviewer I’m once again proud to publish the third in a series of guest articles written by David Flin, who is both author and editor at the superb new publishing house Sergeant Frosty Publications. Today, David takes a look at the world of Harry Potter, and specifically the first book in the series – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. How does it work as a stand-alone story outside of the mega-bestselling series it kicked off, and how does it so effectively write to its target audience?”

Dirt Upon My Skin – Steve Toase – Review

“Dirt Upon My Skin is an absolutely incredible accomplishment, being one of the best collections of British horror that I have ever read in my career as a reviewer of horror fiction; and marks Steve Toase as an up-and-coming master of British Horror. I will follow his career and future works with great interest, and hope that his collaboration with Black Shuck Books will not be his last.”

They Never Find The Bodies In Whispering Pines – Sean Malia Thompson – Review

“Taken altogether, They Never Find The Bodies In Whispering Pines is a slow-burning, transgressive and ultimately deeply disconcerting horror novel that succeeds in keeping the reader off-balance and uncertain until its final pages. There’s blood and guts and dead bodies galore in some sections, but they’re interlaced with much more intimate and personal horrors that are just as memorable and terrifying – and it highlights just how talented Thompson is as a writer that he manages to develop both and bring them together into one novel. It’s a superb piece of horror fiction, and I look forward to seeing what Thompson and Nictitating Books come up with in the future.”

Fox Hunt: A Creature Feature Horror – Charles E. P. Murphy – Review

“Fox Hunt: A Creature Feature Horror is a multi-layered novel that has a huge amount to offer the prospective reader. It’s a superb piece of well-written, perfectly paced Creature Feature horror that continues the tradition of Herbert, Smith, Meikle and Baxter and which serves up as much blood, gore and torn-out throats that fans of the subgenre could ever hope for. Yet at the same time, the novel also operates on a far deeper and much more radical level. Fox Hunt is as much about the horrors of the breakdown of social capital and the crimes of rampant, uncontrolled capitalism that has devastated Britain in the 21st Century as it is about murderous foxes; and Murphy delivers a keen-eyed critique of the unsettling state of Britain as it stumbles its way through the second decade of this new century.”