In this place marking our eternal return, we take respite to examine across various media the supernatural, myth, folklore, science-fiction, science-fantasy, dark fantasy, the weird tale, and much more.
I really wanted to enjoy Michelle Paver’s Dark Matter, and while it wasn’t a bad novel in the least, the story left me wanting so much more. I did not feel like much happened by the end of the novel, and though it is touted as a ghost story, it came across for me as… Continue reading Poorly Titled Dark Matter Lacks Substance
Darcy Coates was an author with whom I was not familiar, but she seemed to have quite the fan base on Amazon. Her bibliography (and biography) indicates that her passion is haunted house stories. Many of her novels have titles in variants of “The Haunting of (fill-in-the blank),” which might seem discouragingly generic or derivative,… Continue reading The House Next Door
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