"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Various Authors, S.T. Joshi (Ed.) “This prayer must be for you—for you and all the others who must be left behind, who cannot walk with me, up that final flight of wooden stairs, to peace and escape, who must go on living in the shadow of a monstrous evil of which they are not even... Continue Reading →
by Clark Ashton Smith “The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies.” Spanning a period of hundreds of years, these stories predominantly take place in the fictional region of Averoigne, loosely based upon France's real world Auvergne. Populated... Continue Reading →
by Fred Chappell Those familiar with Centipede’s Masters Series know we're looking at a type of story where H.P. Lovecraft is king, with some stories even set in his fictional world. You do not need to read Lovecraft to enjoy these, but you’re going to get more out of them if you do. A few... Continue Reading →
by Henry Kuttner “The first step, I thought. After this I can't go back. I've made the first move and it leads right on to the last." Nick Banning, traveling east, stumbles across a well-off, eccentric couple on a ranch outside of Phoenix. He accepts a job as a kind of handyman for the couple... Continue Reading →
by R.A. Lafferty “A German of the last century stated that the generally bad design of eyes offered irrefutable evidence that God was a bungler.” Most of the gut-bustingly funny quotes that could be listed here are more so if you have the context from the previous sentence or two, with that context built upon... Continue Reading →
by Various Authors, Ann VanderMeer (Ed.) “All the same, it may be maintained that since, at the time of Creation, the Creator was altogether lacking in prior experience in this sort of thing, all kinds of errors, actually, were made. And these went unnoticed until the work was finished, as is so often the case.... Continue Reading →
by William Hope Hodson The purpose here is not only to review a great deal of the career of one of our favorite, and one of our earliest, weird storytellers, but also to compare two of the definitive volumes released from Centipede Press, being the Masters of the Weird Tale and the Library of Weird... Continue Reading →
by Anne Hébert “But then you shouldn't have provoked God. His silence is sometimes preferable to His word.” Non-linear storytelling is one thing, but when written in the style of nightmare, hallucination and madness, some stories can become entirely different monsters. Published in 1977 and written in French, the book reads as if it’s 100... Continue Reading →
by Thomas F. Monteleone “If this is the Second Coming, then somebody was lying about something.” Another fantastic read, this sequel doesn’t reach the levels of destruction you'll be expecting after the end of The Blood of the Lamb. Armageddon up to the eyeballs, you'd probably guess, but instead we get a fast-paced, fairly complex... Continue Reading →
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Baskerville 2 by Anders Noren.