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This Side of the Grave review

    I've mentioned how much I love the Nighthuntress series and this is no exception. Part of what I enjoy about the books is their R-rated Buffy sensibility. They're squarely on the divide between Paranormal Romance and urban fantasy. The books have plenty of sex, relationships, and couples moments but also big epic storylines involving supernatural wars. They're not for everyone but for those of us who do like this combination, they're a really great expression of how authors...

Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos by Bobby Derie review

    The peculiar cover of a tentacled monster (a shoggoth in human form?) flashing an old woman is misleading. This is not a funny book with a nudge-nudge tongue-in-cheek look at sexuality in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Rather, this is a serious scholarly treatise on not only the works of HPL but also his primary Arkham House successors as well as large portions of media inspired by him.

    In some ways, Bobby Derie overreaches. At 314 pages, this work could hav...

Summoned by Anne M. Pillsworth review

    With the advent of the 21st century and the entering of Lovecraft into the public domain, there are more risks being taken with his stories. Works like The Ballad of Black Tom and The Litany of Earth challenge assumptions about the racism inherent in some of his stories while things like the Cthulhutech RPG merge Lovecraft with sci-fi anime. Summoned is enjoyable and surprising as it's the first time I've ever read a Young Adult Cthulhu Mythos novel.

    I'm a...

Destined for an Early Grave (Night Huntress 4#) review

    I've expressed my love for the Night Huntress series and I will continue to do so. While Anita Blake was the original R-Rated Buffy (before it became porn), Night Huntress nicely fills out that role of a darker edgier vampire-slaying heroine. Dhampir Catherine "Cat" Crawfield and 200-year-old-vampire Crispin "Bones" Russell are two engaging characters who have an excellent relationship which makes their already well-written supernatural adventures even more fun.

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Cthulhu Attacks!: The Fear review

    Dammit, Sean, I wanted to destroy the world first. This peculiar opening to this review is a disclaimer as I know Sean Hoade personally. He's a great guy and the two of us had an interesting conversation a few years back when I was working on Cthulhu Armageddon and he was working on Cthulhu Attacks!.

    The sum of that conversation basically amounted to how both of us were annoyed Cthulhu never actually got on to the whole destroying the world thing. He eithe...

Ibenus review

    Seth Skorkowsky is one of the most promising fantasy writers I've read in the past decade. He has managed to create top quality urban fantasy in the Valducan series and exceeded that in the Tales from the Black Raven stories. While I prefer the latter, I was a day-one purchaser for this latest volume of the Valducan series.

    The premise for the books is that the world is infested with demons. These spirits possess human beings and transform them into vampir...

Hallowed Ground review

    It's basically Needful Things in the Wild West. That's the short review of this book by David Niall Wilson and Steven Savile. The book's premise is a mysterious traveler comes to a sleepy little town in the Wild West which is full of secrets, feuds, and hatreds. By the end of the conflict, the town has torn itself apart with the traveler's true supernatural evil having been exposed for the world to see.

    There's significant differences in the story, especia...

Dead West Omnibus vol. 1 review

    The Weird Weird West. You know, it's kind of strange but the Pirates of the Caribbean movies successfully grafted ghost stories and pirates together into a massive franchise but the Weird Western has never really gotten its niche despite the 20th century being utterly drenched in the genre. Deadlands, Cowboys vs. Aliens, Jonah Hex, and a few others exist but they've never gotten the kind of signature piece they deserve.

    I suspect this is because the Weird...

Crossroad Press welcomes me and my books

In what is almost certainly the first (and very possibly last) time I'll be headlining an article also announcing a Stargate-SG1 novel, Crossroad Press announced the release of STRAIGHT OUTTA FANGTON and CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON after HALL OF THE TWO TRUTHS by Susannah Parker Sinard.

Crossroad Press announcement

AVAILABLE NOW – Stargate SG1-29 – Hall of the Two Truths by Susannah Parker Sinard, the newest full-length novel in the Stargate tie-ins.

Also, welcome to CROSSROAD PRESS author C. T. Phipps,...

Interview with Matthew Dawkins, Onyx Path Publishing writer II

 Hey folks,

I've mentioned a few times that I'm a huge fan of Vampire: The Masquerade, a tabletop roleplaying game which effectively dominated my teenage years. Recently, the developers at Onyx Path Entertainment have revived the classic role-playing game with Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition.

As part of their revival, the developers made a massive Kickstarter to create a book which expanded all the massive metaplot from the original line. The Kickstarter for BECKETT'S JYHA...