Oh cosmic evil, wherefore art thou?   Ahh, a deep pit in the fields of rural Ireland, just where I thought.   At least, this is the d...

Folk music in the US is viewed as an innocent, pastoral indulgence with roots in rural life.   Its lilt between twittering energy and...

It was Friedrich Nietzsche who said something to the effect “nothing offends a woman’s vanity like a woman’s vanity.”   Though probab...

There are numerous readers of speculative fiction whose brains are not activated by horror.   I am one of them.   Sophisticated inter...

Neil Asher’s 2002 The Skinner follows closely on the heels of Gridlinked ’s success and is the first in a sub-series of the Polity c...

Borrowing a concept to write a novel is a risky decision.   The outcome potentially derivative beyond face-in-public possibility, or ...

There is a popular expression: ‘In order to sing the blues, you need to live the blues.’   The same might perhaps be said of horror w...

Few names in fiction are more iconic than Frankenstein.   Story, character, and premise borrowed, bent, and twisted in the near 200 y...

A dabbler in genres, Amitav Ghosh seems to continually be trying a new style of writing.   His debut A Circle of Reason is a great sa...

Fans of Stephen King take note, this work and other tales of H.P. Lovecraft were one of the author’s mai...

The Terror is based on the British vessels HMS Erebrus and HMS Terror and their voyage to discover a northwest passage in the 19th cent...

I read a number of reviews prior to buying Song of Kali.  I noticed several took issue with the book's portrayal of India as a trash ...