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...
View ArticleJago 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNever 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....
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleUnfinished 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...
View ArticleFish + 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 +...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDante’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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleRequiem 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleStill 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...
View ArticleTwilight 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...
View ArticleBreaking 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...
View ArticleThe 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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