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Short Story Review Neil Gaiman Harlequin Valentine
Unusually, A Gaiman story that falls short of greatness.
Short Story Review Neil Gaiman Good Boys Deserve Favours 2006 Harper Perennial
A boy who could play a musical instrument but no longer can.
Short Horror Story Review Ambrose Bierce THE Boarded Window
Why a man kept his cabin in the woods window shuttered for many years before his death.
Short Story Review August Derlith THE Lonesome Place
Childhood fears can stay with us when we grow up.
Short Story Review Ambrose Bierce THE Damned Thing
A witness is ridiculed for his unlikely evidence at an enquiry into the death of a man who may have angered an invisible monster.
At The Mountains of Madness – Review
An brief look at H.P. Lovecraft’s horror classic, a story of ancient races, lost civilizations and insanity-inducing discoveries.
Short Story Review John Wyndham Close Behind HIM
Proving the last person you should rob and murder is a Satanist.
Short Story Review John Wyndham THE RED Stuff 1951 Sphere Books
Something nasty and sticky in space – best not touch it – oops – too late.
Scary Film Review of 20 Million Miles to Earth: A Covering That Does Not Hold, a Creature That Emerges and Grows, a Doctor Who Condones Mercy Killing, and an Officer Who Loves a Landlubber
Technology makes interplanetary travel possible. But missions may be aborted and courses may be altered by blind spots in technology’s vision. Will both occur when a meteorite and a spacecraft cross paths during a voyage of “20 Million Miles to Earth”?
More of My Book Suggestions
This is a list of books that I read or listened to in May 2012. Many of them are children’s books, but I’m always on the lookout for the next great children’s series.
