"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
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 Hugh Howey "It was supposed to be people who died and cultures that lasted. Now it was the other way around." Prequel to the best-selling Wool and containing a few of the same characters, in Shift Howey charges himself with reasoning how and why the world ended. Despite the majority of the action happening... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker "This was my father you just murdered!" "Yes. I see the resemblance." Originally published as 6 very short short stories, Tortured Souls was written to back up a line of 6 toys Barker released. These backstories helped fill out the characters of his toys and work together surprisingly well considering their origins.... 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 →
by Joe Abercrombie “I’ve settled a few scores in my time, but it only led to more.” The fantasy world of blood and decay on display here, populated by the downtrodden and the corrupt, could possibly be called Anti-Fantasy. You don’t look to this world like you might many others in the genre, with faces raised... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie “No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right.” A tough-as-nails woman, her pseudo-father and other unlikely companions gathered along the way track down a mercenary army across the brutal plains to retrieve her stolen brother and sister. This is a western containing the throwback violence... Continue Reading →
by Hugh Howey "It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened." Due to extremely toxic factors on the Earth's surface, survivors eek out an existence in a huge, underground bunker. With the Earth's surface having been uninhabitable for hundreds, possibly thousands of years, the remaining men and women know of no other... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker Originally published in ’97 as part of Douglas Winter’s Millennium, the stories ‘Men and Sin’ and ‘A Moment at the River’s Heart’ make up this release. Two men, 1,000 years apart, attempt to locate and exact revenge upon their spouses’ murderers. That is the plot in its oversimplified form, but laid over... Continue Reading →
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