Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
Read online at Strange Horizons Our unnamed narrator is a teenage girl, working in a restaurant after her mother left, trying to …
The Book of Apex : Vol 4
Part of the Apex Blog Tour hosted by The Little Red Reviewer The problem I always have with reviewing a collection of …
Apex blog tour – guest post by Ian Nichols
Welcome to my first part of the Apex Blog Tour, kindly organised by the Little Red Reviewer, celebrating The Book of Apex: …
Bloodstones
A collection of horror stories, edited by Amanda Pillar. Part of my RIP VIII reading. Table of contents Introduction – Seanan McGuire …
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Thanks to Andi’s review of The Song of Achilles I learned that Miller had a new short story out. So off I …
The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore by Sean Demory
via Metafilter Inspired by classic American murder ballads and folk songs such as In the pines and Knoxville Girl this tells the …
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
First published in serial form in the 1950s The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that together tell the story …
Rappacini’s daughter [essay] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This week’s essay for my Coursera Course got a 5. W00t :) Beatrice, Beatrice, let down your hair. Giovanni is not a …
Significant Dust by Margo Lanagan
Vanessa works in a roadhouse in an isolated part of Australia. When we first meet her we don’t know why exactly she’s …
Bajazzle by Margo Lanagan
Okay, do you remember when I “reviewed” The Isles of the sun and I said that I’d love to hear other people’s …
Brutal women by Kameron Hurley
Author Kameron Hurley has been getting a bit of coverage in the sff-world lately on account of her debut novel God’s War …
Dark Alchemy [edited] by Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann
Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy ISBN: 9780747590569 There was a witch buried at the edge of the graveyard; it was …