Exo-Skeleton Town by Jeffrey Ford

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humans travel to another planet and meet aliens they call Bugs (which Continue reading →

Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr

Not having been around in the Sixties and Seventies, my only experience of literature from that time is with a Continue reading →

The Pacific Mystery by Stephen Baxter

Sometimes all you need is a neat conceit and the storytelling to follow it through. In today’s story, Baxter starts Continue reading →

Writ in Water, or the Gingerbread Man by Avram Davidson

Davidson’s later work has a unique style that is a joy to behold, dancing through half a dozen different lines Continue reading →

Welcome to the Reptile House by Stephen Graham Jones

I like it when I can’t predict a story. Actually, that’s not true. If I’m reading a piece of suburban Continue reading →

The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford

There are certain stories that are inextricably linked to when I first read them, especially for horror stories. For example, Continue reading →

Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre by Seth Fried

This summary is going to sound ridiculous. An utterly implausible premise for a story. You’ll have to take it on Continue reading →

The Poetry of Fantasy by Mary Quella Kelly

I must admit, when I would read The Lord of the Rings in my teens I would usually skip over Continue reading →