Toll Booth by Michael Aronovitz

I’ve tried, but I just can’t enjoy Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. My main problem’s with the excessively Continue reading →

Baby Doll by Johanna Sinisalo

It’s a common lament that childhood is increasingly fleeting, that all too soon children become aware of the sexualized world. Continue reading →

Abraham’s Boys by Joe Hill

Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts has been heralded as one of the finest horror collections of the past fifteen years, Continue reading →

Standing Water by Caitlin R. Kiernan

H.P. Lovecraft is always a good source for quotes, so let’s take a look at how he defines different types Continue reading →

Esther Gordon Framlingham by Anthony Mann

While I don’t deny that Google’s wholesale scanning of books is a flagrant abuse of copyright and all that, I Continue reading →

. . . By Good Intentions by Carrie Richerson

Here’s an intriguing stylistic trick: never naming something in a story, while making it perfectly clear what the something is Continue reading →

Senator Bilbo by Andy Duncan

It’s a common parlor game (if parlor games still exist) in fannish circles to imagine what character X would do Continue reading →

Mongoose by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear

Imagine you’re a writer and you’ve just invented a race of 90ft humanoid rabbits with osmium bones. What do you Continue reading →