"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Various Authors, Tim Pratt (Ed.) "I don’t think there was a nine-year-old that ever lived who would have been able to convince his father he’d seen the Devil come walking out of the woods in a black suit." -Stephen King In terms of average rating, anthologies have a significant challenge pulling off a high... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie "Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light." Tying together the threads of the adventures of all characters, good and bad (but mostly bad), The Last Argument of Kings is a bold masterpiece. The Bloody-Nine comes into his own as... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie “You had better stay out of sight for a couple of days.” “Out of sight? I don’t plan to see outside of a whorehouse for a week.” “Very wise.” The second novel in the First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged follows mainly two groups of companions through their ordeals as well as... Continue Reading →
by Thomas Cranham “Because outside the walls the monster (no dragon but pain) had arrived and it struck the barrier with tooth and claw, fire and fist, and little Emily’s defender, her knight was nowhere to be seen.” Consisting of six dark tales and a novella and written by one of the CD forum’s very... Continue Reading →
by Neil Gaiman “If you walk the path, eventually you must arrive at the cave.” A small man, half-human, enlists the help of a gruff mountain-dweller to guide him as they embark on a journey to a fabled cave in the mountains rumored to contain limitless gold. Told in a fairy-tale style, most of the... Continue Reading →
by Matthew Gregory Lewis “Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.” Well over 200 years old, The Monk details the fall of the most pious man the world knows. Ambrosia the hero-monk, the sinless man of God revered above all others, is softened by... Continue Reading →
by Various Authors (Stephen Jones - Editor) (on fairies) “But they can’t have memories. They don’t know their name. Don’t have a favourite smell or sound, a longed-for taste or a book in which they might lose themselves. They have nothing.” Peter Crowther – "The Artemis Line" Based on the tales of the brothers Grimm,... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker “The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there’d be no show at all, then casting off its rags one by one.” Boone, a possible serial killer undergoing intense therapy, has his world turned upside down as the crimes come to light and he... Continue Reading →
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and dream about it.” A young writer who was introduced to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books through our favorite booksellers, ‘Sempere & Sons,’ is tasked to write a specific, dangerous book by... Continue Reading →
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