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Once Is Enough For James Herbert

     Updated 12/08/2014      A short sharp review of Once…      James Herbert does little to shift his low-brow Stephen King associations with this perfunctory foray into the world of faerie.      A...

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Jago By Kim Newman

     Updated 21/08/2014       Kim Newman’s Glastonbury set tale of a year 2000 millenium apocalypse may have passed its sell by date (without incident) yet still offers a gorily fun interpretation of...

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The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward By H. P. Lovecraft

     Updated 09/09/2014      H.P. Lovecraft’s longform novel makes a fine introduction to the author’s original mythos and recurring themes but, like Poe before him, the style and structure of his...

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Never The Bride By Paul Magrs

     Updated 16/09/2014      The episodic structure and super simple YA-style prose mire a book worth reading for its genius premise: pensioners battling the supernatural in UK Goth Capital, Whitby....

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Is It Time For A Silmarillion Movie?

     Updated 30/09/2014      The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies arrives in UK cinemas on December 12th!  If you can’t wait that long Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana can satisfy...

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The Children Of Húrin By J.R.R. Tolkien

     Updated 09/10/2014      Another full-length prose novel from (the admittedly deceased) J.R.R. Tolkien is too good to be true and infinitely more satisfying than all those collected fragments with...

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Unfinished Tales By J.R.R. Tolkien

     The diligent Christopher Reuel Tolkien seems every bit as inspired by and devoted to Middle-earth as his much celebrated father.      The Unfinished Tales: Of Númenor and Middle-earth is the first...

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Fish + Chocolate By Kate Brown

Updated 27/11/2014      Recommended reading because Graphic Novels are about more than Superheroes… Filed under: Art, Books Tagged: Art, Arts, books, Comics, Fables, fairy tales, Fiction, Fish +...

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The Fall Of Atlanta ~ Vampire: The Masquerade, Clan Novel Saga Volume 1...

     Updated 09/01/2015      Every vampire fan should be well aware of White Wolf’s seminal role-playing game system, Vampire; which effectively collates and categorizes every bit of vampire lore and...

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Dante’s Divine Comedy ~ A Graphic Novel By Seymour Chwast

     Updated 11/12/2014           Students of English Literature should be eternally grateful for this Graphic Novel adaptation of a core curriculum classic.      The simple black and white noir-style...

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The Eye Of Gehenna ~ Vampire: The Masquerade, Clan Novel Saga Volume Two...

     Updated 15/01/2015      Vampire: The Masquerade‘s role-playing world offers plenty of intrigue and diversity but the chronological re-editing of multiple novels tends to mar an otherwise...

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The Rime Of The Modern Mariner By Nick Hayes

     Updated 21/01/2015      Recommended reading :) Filed under: Art, Books, Reviews Tagged: Art, Arts, books, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Nick Hayes, Poetry, Review, Reviews, Samuel Taylor...

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A Present From Anne Rice ~ The Wolf Gift

     Updated 22/04/2015      It is nearly forty years since Anne Rice refined and defined our contemporary Romantic Vampire archetype with her seminal and controversial novel Interview With The...

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Requiem Vampire Knight Vol. 1

     Welcome to the wonderfully audacious and wickedly macabre world of Resurrection; the realm of Requiem, Vampire Knight.      Nickel Editions Franco-British collaboration features the dark...

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Blog Review 2013

     The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.      Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed...

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Is It Really A Decade Since Twilight?

Originally posted on Lily Wight:      Updated 11/01/2014      It is almost a decade since Stephenie Meyer’s genre-busting archetype-twisting début novel Twilight was published.  Now that this...

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Still Mooning Over Jacob And Edward?

Originally posted on Lily Wight:      Updated 18/01/2014      It is nearly a decade since the launch of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga so New Moon, the second book in the series, may already seem...

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Twilight Continues To Eclipse Vampire Fiction

Originally posted on Lily Wight:      Updated 25/01/2014      We’re three books – and three reviews in – yet The Twilight Saga refuses staunchly to improve or evolve as its little flashes of...

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Breaking Down For Breaking Dawn

Originally posted on Lily Wight:      Updated 28/01/2014      It’s almost a decade since Stephenie Meyer’s first Twilight novel was published and here is the last review of our four book...

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The Tarot According To Kate Mosse

Originally posted on Lily Wight:      Updated 06/02/2014      Kate Mosse’s début novel, Labyrinth was much-loved and promoted by Richard and Judy’s TV book club allowing Mosse to swiftly and...

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